NYC Subway Station To Be Renamed After Stonewall, Site of LGBTQ+ Riots

NEW YORK CITY — A new bill passed last week will rename the Christopher Street-Sheridan Square subway station in Manhattan to honor the Stonewall National Monument.

The bill sponsored by Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal and Assembly Member Deborah Glick passed the New York State Senate last Wednesday.

The station will be renamed to “Christopher Street-Stonewall National Monument Station."

“This change will memorialize the history of the modern LGBTQ civil rights movement and inspire NY to demand justice and equality for all,” Hoylman-Sigal said in a tweet on X.

The Stonewall Inn, Christopher Park, and Christopher Street are part of the national monument and is the site of the 1969 Stonewall Riots.

The riots began after a violent police raid at the inn which spread to the adjacent street.

In 2016, President Barack Obama designated Stonewall as a national monument and a landmark in the LGBTQ+ rights movement.