NYC Newsgirls' Union

Community
Name:	The NYC Newsgirls' Union
Date(s):	March 1999 -
Founder:	Maria Hanton/Goldie
Type:
Fandom:	Newsies
URL:	The NYC Newsgirls' Union, alt (old link) The Newsgirls' Master List
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The NYC Newsgirls' Union was the main organized community of Newsies lodging house websites until the death of GeoCities.

Once the first lodging house became full, more and more were created to accomodate the number of people wanting to join, and the once lone house for newsgirls became several, and hence the Newsgirls Union was formed. Now the Union has grown to not only a center for Newsies fan fiction, but has now encompassed all aspects of historical fiction pertaining to the relative time period of Newsies (1899). But the Newsgirls Union is not only a place for stories to be posted. Yes, that is an ideal part of it, but not everything. The Union is an actual community of people, where each writer has a specific newsgirl character and profile. That character stays and lives at the lodging house they have joined. Most of the lodging houses have chats in which that character (as well as any other characters that the writer has in their story, or a newsboy character) can be played, so other people in the Union can meet him/her.

Brieana Garner

How did the Union get started? Well, Goldie (Maria Hanton in real life) came up with the lodging house concept for the internet (see "A Short History" below). She invented the Lower East Side lodging house. Then came Midtown. Then, Spitfire (a quite renowned Newsies fan-fictionalist) decided to do the same, except in the Bronx. Then Harlem appeared. Then the entire "Newsieverse" as we call it exploded with girls wanting to open lodging houses. And so we formed "The Newsgirls Union" as a collection of all the lodging house leaders so that we could have one medium between us and keep everything under control.

Newsgirls' Union

Member Sites

• incomplete list with leaders
• character directory

Lodging Houses

• 1344 South Street Lodging House
• Astoria Lodging House
• Bay Ridge Lodging House
• https://web.archive.org/web/20010519124529/http://bensonhurst.cjb.net/ Bensonhurst Lodging House
• Bronx Newsgirls' Lodging House
• Brooklyn Newsgirls' Lodging House
• Coney Island Lodging House
• Greenpoint Lodging House
• Greenwich Village Newsgirls' Lodging House
• Harlem Newsgirls' Lodging House
• Hempstead Lodging House
• Hoboken Newsgirls' Lodging House
• Jersey City Girls Lodging House
• Little Italy Newsgirls Lodging House[1]
• Lower Manhattan Lodging House
• Midtown Lodging House[2]
• Newsies Lodging Houses South of Houston
• https://web.archive.org/web/20010529005623/http://longisland.cjb.net Ocean Side Long Island Home for Girls
• Queens Lodging House
• Ravenswood Lodging House[3]
• Rego Park Lodging House
• Staten Island Lodging House
• Upper East Side Lodging House
• Washington Heights Lodging House
• https://web.archive.org/web/20010226200510/http://clix.to/yonkers_newsgirls Yonkers Newsgirls' Lodging House

Gangs

• New York Underground
• Nine O'Clock Club
• River Cats

Other Sites

• 87 Orchard Street Shelter for Children
• https://web.archive.org/web/20040606070739/http://orchardstapts.cjb.net/ 97 Orchard Street Apartments
• Bistro Lucio
• Department of Police, Manhattan, New York City
• Happy Dragon Inn
• Hardison's Mercer Street Boutique
• Kings Park State Hospital
• Ma/Mon Petite Fille
• https://web.archive.org/web/20040613110709/http://millingerstavern.cjb.net/ Millinger's Tavern
• New York City House of Refuge
• New York Library
• Reade Street Reading Room/Lending Library
• Rose Theater
• Silver Nickel Gambling Hall
• Spreckler's Pharmacy and Sanitary Dispensary

Timeline

• Union Timeline

Disputes/Controversies

This site has gone into hiding.

Why?

-because I don't see the trivialty in keeping up with a fascist fucking writing circle.

-because I don't want any of you stealing my stuff.

-because the New York Newsgirls Union sucks a big hairy cock'n'balls.

-because I said so.

L. T. Brooks