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New York is now more suburbanized but it’s still the most exciting city in America and arguably the world. It will be wondewrful to walk from 7th down to the Hudson River Park at night without dreading walking by the bar and the path station. The gentrification process has cleared out the crime but pushed up the rent. The ony people who knew why they closed are those of us who lived near the bar, had to walk by it at night, and worked in the area. I really do not understand and never will understand how the more millitant people in our community get angry when a gay business closses wither because it constantly breaks the law, the rent gets too high, or the owners decide to retire and then start screaming it is for anti-gay reasons. there have been a few others that came and went, but that was just the cycle of business and life. PLEASE TEST OFTEN FOR COVID AND STAY HOME IF YOU ARE.
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On christopher street the same basic bars have been there since I came ou in 79. PLEASE BRING A HARD COPY OF YOUR ID & PROOF OF FULL VACCINATION FOR ENTRY. The paranoia of the neighboorhood going to shut down gay bars are just insane. That closeing was about 12 years ago, and yes the police were right that there was drug dealing going on in the bar (you could see it happen in front of you).
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That bar (gay with a white clientel) was shuttered for drug dealing and prostitution. There was an ancient gay bar on west street down the block (the name escapes me now) that is in an historic building. It was the only place where gay people could openly dance close together, and for relatively little money, drag queens (who received a bitter reception at other bars), runaways, homeless LGBT. Not that it matters it was just as much color on color as well as color on white crime. People have been mugged in front of the bar and on that street. How people can see this as racist or the community board going anti-gay is beyond me. I have walked past the front of the bar and have had people ask me if I wanted to buy drugs. This is just a bar in a residential neighboorhood that has a long record of drug dealing and crime that was a dangerous business (as it would have been in ANY neighboorhood). So either you are a bigot or part of the neighboorhood conspiracy to shut down all the gay bars.