The second location I visited this week was the AIDS Memorial in Greenwich Village. The New York City AIDS Memorial was dedicated on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2016, and is meant to inspire and empower current and future activists, health professionals, and people living with HIV. The memorial is located at St. Vincent’s Triangle because it sits at a unique crossroads of early AIDS history in New York City.  St. Vincent’s established the first AIDS ward in the city in 1984. The Memorial site is less than a block from the LGBT Community Center on 13th Street, where ACT-UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) and other AIDS advocacy and support groups first organized.