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

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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.

"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.

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

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.

Other gay bars the neighborhood, many of which have sce closed, had more of the trappgs you’d expect: mood lightg, jock-strapped go-go boys, a most ver Boiler Room has always been special bee of everythg ’s ’s perpetually dark si, even durg the day. It also has one of the cheapt pours of any gay bar the cy (still jt $5 for well liquor), and remas one of the most chill, welg, and ngenial plac I’ve ever set foot si. Big-cy gay bars n often feel que the oppose, particularly for anyone other than whe cis gay men, which mak The Boiler Room even more KrevtI’ve been gog to The Boiler Room for over a ; gay nightlife terms, the bar practilly raised me.

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

” Though The Boiler Room skews male like many gay bars, ’s always attracted a uniquely broad range of rac and age groups. It’s never felt overwhelmgly whe to me (as plenty of other gay bars do), and don’t ter to one specific tribe over another, the way a place like Boxers do wh jocks, or The Eagle wh bears and fetish fans. 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. ”Zak Krevt“You don’t feel like you're beg watched or that sort of cliquey feelg that you have a lot of gay bars, ” says Jaron Caldwell, who was a regular when he lived nearby 10 years ago and has sce moved away. “In a lot of gay bars, the bartenrs are pretty people you'd maybe watch porn, but you don't necsarily want to talk to them to get a drk, ” bee you might feel self-nsc, Henry says.

”Zak KrevtWhen I tracked down the owner to ask his secret to stayg put when many other gay bars have closed, moved, or changed hands, he put simply: “Cheap drks and cent service; there’s no magic pill. “You don’t have to be all s, but you have to have a good energy, ” Randy a lot has changed sce 1991, not jt the neighborhood but a shift how gay men socialize and hookup. Apps are one of the several likely factors, cludg gentrifitn, that have led to the cle and closure of gay bars across the Krevt“We’re kd of dosrs.