WEST VILLAGE — A transgender woman was raped at The Stonewall Inn on Saturday night, police said.
The incident was first reported by Gothamist.
Police said the 25-year-old victim was attacked about 11:40 p.m. inside a single-person unisex bathroom at the recently landmarked bar.
The victim told police that her attacker said he just needed to wash his hands. Once inside the bathroom, he groped and raped her, the victim told police.
He fled after the attack, and the victim also left the Christopher Street bar, she told police, but returned an hour later to call 911. She was taken to the medical facility at Lenox Health Greenwich Village on Seventh Avenue South, near the former site of St. Vincent's Hospital.
The investigation is ongoing, and is being handled by the Manhattan Special Victims Division, the NYPD said. The suspect is described as a man in his 30s, about 5-foot-10 and 250 pounds.
NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said at an unrelated press conference on Monday the Special Victims detectives were able to "grab some video" when they responded to the incident.
"It's probative," Boyce said, adding that they have not yet identified the suspect but "we have a very good image of that person and are moving forward with that case now."
Boyce also said that "people inside of the Stonewall" know the suspect.
"Hopefully we can get him identified within the next couple days," he said.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said the incident was "very disturbing," noting that the Stonewall is a place "that's very important historically and where something good happened in terms of creating opportunity for people to live their lives."
The bar recently became the first site landmarked by the city for its historic, rather than its architectural, significance, because of the retaliation against police that occurred there in 1969.
"To see a violent incident like this is very, very troubling," the mayor said.
