Photos: Last of the Baths

On April 26, 2008 by D. Bell

IMG0751, originally uploaded by forota.

Many of you old enough to remember the advent of the AIDS epidemic remember that a prime “breeding” place for the spread of the disease was purportedly in gay bath houses. The Mt. Morris Baths didn’t start out as a gay bath house and surprisingly didn’t close as a result of it’s conversion to one. The bathhouse was closed by the City in 2003 due to structural problems and sits dormant on Madison near 125th Street.

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