The Boiler Room Is Manhattan’s Friendlit Gay Bar | Them

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• NEW YORK CY GAY MUNY ON HIGH ALERT AFTER STRG OF ALLEGED DGGGS, ROBBERI AND AT LEAST TWO ATHS
• GOOD WEIRD QUEER BAR: THE BOILER ROOM IS MANHATTAN’S FRIENDLIT GAY BAR
• THE L.A. GAY BARS ARE GOG EXTCT — AND THEIR LANDLORD WON’T HELP
• MANHATTAN GAY BAR OWNER LAMENTS NYPD'S 'NONCHALANT' RPONSE TO VANDALISM ATTACKS

NEW YORK CY GAY MUNY ON HIGH ALERT AFTER STRG OF ALLEGED DGGGS, ROBBERI AND AT LEAST TWO ATHS

The New York Cy Police Department is vtigatg a strg of cints which gay men say they were dgged at bars and left wh massive unthorized bank acunt whdrawals. At least two other gay men were disvered ad wh spic bank whdrawals, acrdg to fay members who are soundg the alarm on their aths.

"Word needs to get out, pecially the gay muny, that they are targetg gay men.... This same group of killers have dgged, robbed and murred untls young gay men New York.

GOOD WEIRD QUEER BAR: THE BOILER ROOM IS MANHATTAN’S FRIENDLIT GAY BAR

"Umberger, 33, was disvered ad an Upper East Si townhoe May after he left a gay club Hell’s Kchen wh a group of other men, the New York Tim reported Saturday. Jt a month earlier, another man named Jul Ramirez, 25, died the back of a b after leavg a gay bar wh a group of men jt blocks om where Umberger had spent the eveng before his both s, the men’s cellphon were missg when their bodi were disvered.

MULTIPLE BRICK-THROWING INCIDENTS REPORTED AT NYC GAY BAR John Umberger died May 2022 Manhattan. "VIDEO SHOWS SUSPECT IN NYC GAY BAR ATTACKThe New York Cy Police Department told Fox News Digal on Monday that Ramirez’s and Umberger’s aths "are currently unr vtigatn and the medil examer will terme their of ath. " The police did not say whether the two men were targeted bee they were gay.

The Rz Bar and Lounge Manhattan (Google Maps)Other men, however, have also reported beg dgged and robbed of fanc after a night out at a gay bars and clubs Manhattan.

THE L.A. GAY BARS ARE GOG EXTCT — AND THEIR LANDLORD WON’T HELP

"After wakg up, he disvered $2, 000 had been transferred out of his acunts through Paypal and Zelle apps on his New York Tim spoke to five men who said they were dgged at gay bars the cy and then robbed. SUSPECT IN NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS ARRESTED"[The NYPD] asked me if I had been asslted, and I was like, ‘Gettg dgged is asslt, ’" Tyler Burt, 27, said. ’" The Boiler Room Manhattan (Google Maps)Burt said he was robbed of more than $25, 000 after beg dgged at the Boiler Room gay bar the East Village last asked about the strg of alleged dgggs and robberi agast gay men, the NYPD nfirmed to Fox News Digal that the "Crim Agast Persons Un, along wh the Manhattan North and South Homici Squads, are jotly workg wh our partners the New York County District Attorney’s Office to vtigate several cints where dividuals have been victims of eher robberi or asslt.

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MANHATTAN GAY BAR OWNER LAMENTS NYPD'S 'NONCHALANT' RPONSE TO VANDALISM ATTACKS

And there are almost always a fair number of women the mix too, still a rary for many Manhattan gay bars.

If Chelsea was where “the perfect gay people lived” back the ‘90s, he says, “the Boiler Room was always chill and e as you are.