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Jt se New York Cy's 42nd Street need some more gay flavor, a swank new "urban gay rort" is due to open 2011.

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A RORT FOR GAYS RIS MANHATTAN

The Out NYC Urban Rort is one of a number of gay-themed entertament plex recently opened or planned across the untry. * 42nd street gay *

Do anyone know where the gay club 42nd Street/The Power Company was? I recently stumbled upon a thread where people scribed as the bt (gay) dance club between DC and Atlanta the 80s and 90s, but uldn't fd a whole of rmatn about onle. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSquare FeetA Rort for Gays Ris ManhattanAug.

17, 2010Six years ago, after Ian Simpson Reisner, a veloper New York, spent a few pleasurable nights at the Axel Hotel Barcelona — part of a small cha of upsle hotels aimed at gay visors — he was stck wh an ia. Now, after securg a lease, clearg licensg hurdl, startg a buzz the gay prs and perfectg archectural plans by Pl Domguez of Parkview, the Out NYC Urban Rort — what Mr. ) The $30 ln, 90, 000-square-foot plex is to have rtrants and bars, a spa, a receptn hall, retail stor and a huge seven-nights-a-week dance club, along wh a 127-room Axel NYC is one of a number of gay-themed entertament plex recently opened or planned.

“The plac provi a ncentrated feelg of muny, ” said Thomas Roth, print of Communy Marketg, a pany San Francis that specializ gay and lbian market rearch. ” Bengiveno/The New York TimNightlife plex like the Dun Rort Sgatuck, Mich., and the Crown & Anchor Provcetown, Mass., have long been stapl of gay rort towns. And other big projects aimed at gay ctomers are on the horizon, cludg a 1, 000-room hotel and party palace adjacent to the Strip Las a time when acceptance of gay people seems to be creasg, such rorts might seem superfluo.

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“We n’t assume there is a ‘gay ctomer’ anymore, ” he said. There is a lot of diversy among people who intify themselv as lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr, he said, and “some want all gay all the time — pecially if they’re om, say, Omaha.

1 domtic statn for Amerin gay and lbian while the tourist-crowd potential is certaly not lost on Mr. Reisner ( a not-yet-released promotnal vio about the property, he said seven ln gay tourists vised New York last year), he also said he hoped to attract lol rints.

It will be operated by a number of gay-nightclub pros, cludg John Blair and Beto Sutter, who have 25 years of promotg experience at the now-funct clubs Limelight and Roxy, and who owned the origal XL Chelsea before losg their lease several years ago.

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”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn B, Page 7 of the New York edn wh the headle: A Rort for Gays Ris Manhattan. A sketch of Axel Hotels' proposed gay rort, The Out NYC. Image via York’s first gay urban rort plex is schled to be open Fall 2011.

His hotels 20 years ago were more 80 percent straight and 20 percent gay-iendly, ” said Ian Reisner of Parkview Developers told NY1 news.

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