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The New St. Marks Baths was a gay bathhouse at 6 St. Marks Place in the East Village of Manhattan New York City from 1979 to 1985. It claimed to be the largest gay bath house in the world.The Saint Marks Russian and Turkish Baths opened in the location in 1913. Through the 1950s it operated as a turkish bath catering to immigrants on New York’s Lower East Side. In the 1950s it began to have a homosexual clientele at night.
