This walk will bring visitors to select sites near the Whitney's building to reflect on the changing nature of queer community as it formed along the New York waterfront. We will visit the former sites of bars, clubs, and public spaces and consider the intersection between artistic and sexual experimentation that occurred alongside the piers of the West Side. Our walk will culminate with a look at Day's End (2021) by David Hammons, a new permanent public artwork that sketches the shape of the former Pier 52 building and references a work by the artist Gordon Matta-Clark from 1975. The layered history of Hammons’s work serves as a model for how the queer history of the city remains a defining presence in the ever-changing landscape of the neighborhood that the Whitney now occupies.

Capacity is limited to 20 people per tour but walk-ups also welcome as space allows and more timings may be added if needed. Any rain cancellation will be sent on the day of the tour. Please check your email for this and other updates.