Brick thrown at an NYC gay bar is beg vtigated as a hate crime

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• DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE
• NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN
• MAN ARRTED NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS SAID WAS ‘REVENGE’ ON BEHALF OF FEMALE IEND
• BRICK THROWN AT AN NYC GAY BAR IS BEG VTIGATED AS A HATE CRIME
• NEW YORK CY GAY MUNY ON HIGH ALERT AFTER STRG OF ALLEGED DGGGS, ROBBERI AND AT LEAST TWO ATHS
• SPECT NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS ARRTED
• NYC SUBWAY CRIME SURGE: ANTI-GAY ATTACK, RETIRED OFFICER SLASHED
• SPECT BTED ATTACKS ON NYC GAY BAR BY FOX 5 NY STAFF PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 22, 2022 HELL'S KCHEN FOX 5 NY SHARE COPY LK EMAIL FACEBOOK TWTER LKEDIN REDD SPECT BTED ATTACK ON NYC GAY BAR NEW YORK CY POLICE CHARGED A MANHATTAN MAN WH CRIMAL MISCHIEF, RECKLS ENDANGERMENT, AND CRIMAL POSSSN OF A WEAPON NNECTN WH TOSSG BRICKS AT THE WDOW OF VERS HELL'S KCHEN AT LEAST THREE TIM. NEW YORK - THE NYPD ARRTED A MAN SPECTED OF THROWG BRICKS AT THE WDOWS OF A MANHATTAN GAY BAR WHILE PATRONS WERE SI. NEW YORK CY POLICE CHARGED SEAN KUILAN, 34, WH THREE UNTS EACH OF CRIMAL MISCHIEF, RECKLS ENDANGERMENT, AND CRIMAL POSSSN OF A WEAPON, THORI SAID. THE CINTS TOOK PLACE AT VERS ON 9TH AVENUE HELL'S KCHEN ON NOV. 13, 15, AND 19, POLICE SAID. KUILAN LIV AROUND THE RNER OM THE BAR, ACRDG TO AN ADDRS PROVID BY THE NYPD. SECURY MERA VIO OM ONE CINT SHOWS A MAN WALKG UP TO THE BAR, LOOKG SI, AND THEN THROWG THE BRICK AT A WDOW. EARLIER THIS WEEK, VERS OWNER DAVID DEPAROLA TOLD FOX 5 NY'S ANTWAN LEWIS HE WAS NVCED HIS BAR WAS TARGETED. "THE THIRD BREAK HAPPENED TWO HOURS AFTER I REPLACED THE WDOW," DEPAROLA SAID. "WHICH MAK ME BELIEVE THE PERSON SAW THAT THE WDOW WAS REPLACED AND ME AND WANTED TO SMASH AGA." GET BREAKG NEWS ALERTS THE EE FOX5NY NEWS APP!  |  SIGN UP FOR FOX 5 EMAIL NEWSLETTERS THE NYPD HAS NOT CLASSIFIED THE CINTS AS BIAS CRIM. DEPAROLA SAID THAT THE FBI HAS NTACTED HIM FOR RMATN ABOUT THE CINTS. NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS SPECT NYPD TECTIV RTED SEAN KUILAN, 34, OF MANHATTAN, OM THE 7TH PRECCT STATN HOE TO A POLICE VEHICLE. THE TECTIV THEN DROVE HIM TO CENTRAL BOOKG. KUILAN IS ACCED OF TOSSG A BRICK AT THE WDOW OF VERS, A GAY BAR HELL'S KCHEN, AT LEAST THREE TIM. DAILY NEWSLETTER
• VIO SHOWS MAN THROW BRICK AT WDOW OF NYC GAY BAR; 4TH ATTACK AT SAME SPOT A WEEK
• SERIAL KILLER DOCERI 'LAST CALL' RECKONS WH NYC'S HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE
• SPECT SOUGHT NYC ANTI-GAY SUBWAY ATTACK
• COPS LOOKG FOR MAN WHO LNCHED ANTI-GAY ATTACK NYC
• NYC GAY BAR ATTACKED SEVERAL TIM, NYPD QUTNG POSSIBLE SPECT
• NYPD SEARCH FOR SPECT ANTI-GAY ATTACK MIDTOWN CVS

DGGGS, DEATHS AND ROBBERI PUT NEW YORK’S GAY COMMUNY ON EDGE

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAt first, the men’s aths were treated as overdos, until tens of thoands of dollars were found draed om their bank Umberger was seen leavg the Q nightclub Manhattan, his mother Moon for The New York TimJul Ramirez died the back seat of a taxi April after he left a popular gay bar Manhattan wh a group of men.

They stole his wallet, phone and ID before they abandoned his body the r wh a distrsed month later, John Umberger was found ad an Upper East Si townhoe after he and a group of men left another popular gay bar jt three blocks om the last place Mr. Muny at first regard the aths as isolated dg overdos: men who partied too hard, quotidian tragedi a gay nightlife scene that has roared back to life as the ronavis panmic has the men’s fai soon disvered somethg more sister: Cred rds the men’s nam were maxed out and their bank acunts draed of tens of thoands of dollars.

Muny, which emerged om the panmic to the jaws of a monkeypox outbreak, a landspe of stgglg and sometim shuttered bars and an creasgly hostile natnal polil have also spread fear and mor, while startg a broar nversatn about siar attacks that have quietly plagued the cy’s gay nightlife for years. Umberger were targeted bee they were gay, and they have not said if they believe the men’s aths and other nonfatal attacks are men who said they were dgged have stggled to nvce the police they were the victims of a crime and not jt irrponsible partygoers who took someone home and blacked Alarn, 33, said he was dgged at the Rz March 2020.

NYPD IS VTIGATG A STRG OF ASSLTS POTENTIALLY LKED TO ATHS OF 2 GAY MEN

Umberger, The Tim has spoken to five men who said they were dgged at gay bars the cy — cludg the Eagle, the Boiler Room and the 9th Avenue Saloon — and then robbed.

It is also ed recreatnally by some the gay Burt, 27, was robbed of more than $25, 000 after he was dgged at the Boiler Room the East Village last December.

MAN ARRTED NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS SAID WAS ‘REVENGE’ ON BEHALF OF FEMALE IEND

ImageCouncilman Erik Bottcher reprents much of the cy’s gay heartland Hell’s Kchen, Chelsea and the Wt Moon for The New York TimGay bars hold a special place L. Councilman Erik Bottcher — who reprents much of the cy’s gay heartland Hell’s Kchen, Chelsea and the Wt Village — lled “a goln age of nightlife.

BRICK THROWN AT AN NYC GAY BAR IS BEG VTIGATED AS A HATE CRIME

People of “groomg” children, a homophobic trope that nflat homosexualy wh pedophilia. Bar Colorado addn, many gay bars are or near Midtown Manhattan, which has been transformed by panmic-era enomic llapse and acts of high-profile street crime.

More about Liam StackA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 16 of the New York edn wh the headle: Dgggs, Deaths and Robberi Put Cy’s Gay Communy on Edge. The New York Cy Police Department nfirmed Monday that is vtigatg a strg of robberi and asslts that may be nnected to the aths of two gay men earlier this year shortly after they left gay bars Manhattan's Hell's Kchen neighborhood. His fay prevly told NBC News that approximately $20, 000 had been draed om his bank acunts and that they believed he was Umberger and Jul Ramirez were dgged and killed separate cints followg viss to New York Cy gay Clary / Fay photoAbout a month later, Umberger, a 33-year-old polil nsultant, was found ad after he and two unintified men left another popular Hell's Kchen gay bar, the Q.

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

A spect was bted Tuday the strg of attacks on a Hell’s Kchen gay bar — and allegedly told ps he was jt “exactg revenge” on behalf of a gal pal fdg wh the club, police said. “I’m gay myself, ” Kuilan said as he was led out of a police vehicle and rted to urt handcuffs on Tuday eveng. The ctomers were not jured, thanks to the shatterproof pane stalled by owner David DeParola — who said was a preutn agast anti-gay attacks.

“Even sce then, there was a Zoom meetg wh lol gay bar owners and the precct clost to that was tend to help crease munitn between .

A spect stabbed a 29-year-old man on a subway tra packed wh Pri revelers after tntg them wh anti-gay the victim got on the tra at the 23 Street statn Chelsea, the spect was already tntg rirs the r, packed wh Pri revelers, wh anti-gay victim sat across om the spect and crossed his legs, rultg the spect tntg him and g an anti-gay slur. Photograph: Marie Le Ble/Zuma Wire/Rex/ShutterstockThis week, New York Cy’s mayor, Eric Adams, posned the cy as a welg place for queer people ntrast to plac like Florida, where Governor Ron DeSantis jt signed a “don’t say gay” law.

SPECT NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS ARRTED

New York Cy’s most well-known cint is the police raid at Stonewall Inn that sparked the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg – and helped lnch the morn gay rights movement. Police say a man sp on and punched a 22-year-old while yellg anti-gay remarks. "Arboleda is an openly gay p and she wants others to feel they n be open about who they are whout gettg harmed while walkg the streets of New York.

22, 2022, 12:31 AM UTCOne of New York Cy's newt gay bars has had a brick thrown at s ont wdow four tim recent weeks, s owner says. The latt cint, jt this past weekend, is beg vtigated as a hate crime, the New York Police Department taken Saturday night and verified by NBC News shows a person, whom thori are still tryg to intify, hurlg a brick at the ont wdow of VERS, a gay bar loted on Nth Avenue that opened July.

NYC SUBWAY CRIME SURGE: ANTI-GAY ATTACK, RETIRED OFFICER SLASHED

Erik Bottcher, a New York Cy uncil member who reprents Hell’s Kchen and is gay, lled the cints “hate crim” a tweet on Sunday and urged anyone wh rmatn that uld intify the perpetrator to reach out to the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force.

SPECT BTED ATTACKS ON NYC GAY BAR BY FOX 5 NY STAFF PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 22, 2022 HELL'S KCHEN FOX 5 NY SHARE COPY LK EMAIL FACEBOOK TWTER LKEDIN REDD SPECT BTED ATTACK ON NYC GAY BAR NEW YORK CY POLICE CHARGED A MANHATTAN MAN WH CRIMAL MISCHIEF, RECKLS ENDANGERMENT, AND CRIMAL POSSSN OF A WEAPON NNECTN WH TOSSG BRICKS AT THE WDOW OF VERS HELL'S KCHEN AT LEAST THREE TIM. NEW YORK - THE NYPD ARRTED A MAN SPECTED OF THROWG BRICKS AT THE WDOWS OF A MANHATTAN GAY BAR WHILE PATRONS WERE SI. NEW YORK CY POLICE CHARGED SEAN KUILAN, 34, WH THREE UNTS EACH OF CRIMAL MISCHIEF, RECKLS ENDANGERMENT, AND CRIMAL POSSSN OF A WEAPON, THORI SAID. THE CINTS TOOK PLACE AT VERS ON 9TH AVENUE HELL'S KCHEN ON NOV. 13, 15, AND 19, POLICE SAID. KUILAN LIV AROUND THE RNER OM THE BAR, ACRDG TO AN ADDRS PROVID BY THE NYPD. SECURY MERA VIO OM ONE CINT SHOWS A MAN WALKG UP TO THE BAR, LOOKG SI, AND THEN THROWG THE BRICK AT A WDOW. EARLIER THIS WEEK, VERS OWNER DAVID DEPAROLA TOLD FOX 5 NY'S ANTWAN LEWIS HE WAS NVCED HIS BAR WAS TARGETED. "THE THIRD BREAK HAPPENED TWO HOURS AFTER I REPLACED THE WDOW," DEPAROLA SAID. "WHICH MAK ME BELIEVE THE PERSON SAW THAT THE WDOW WAS REPLACED AND ME AND WANTED TO SMASH AGA." GET BREAKG NEWS ALERTS THE EE FOX5NY NEWS APP!  |  SIGN UP FOR FOX 5 EMAIL NEWSLETTERS THE NYPD HAS NOT CLASSIFIED THE CINTS AS BIAS CRIM. DEPAROLA SAID THAT THE FBI HAS NTACTED HIM FOR RMATN ABOUT THE CINTS. NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS SPECT NYPD TECTIV RTED SEAN KUILAN, 34, OF MANHATTAN, OM THE 7TH PRECCT STATN HOE TO A POLICE VEHICLE. THE TECTIV THEN DROVE HIM TO CENTRAL BOOKG. KUILAN IS ACCED OF TOSSG A BRICK AT THE WDOW OF VERS, A GAY BAR HELL'S KCHEN, AT LEAST THREE TIM. DAILY NEWSLETTER

“A well-known gay bar on Manhattan’s wt si has been attacked repeatedly recent weeks. ”The attacks e as the NYPD also vtigat a seri of robberi and asslts that may be nnected to the aths of two gay men earlier this year after they left Hell’s Kchen gay bars, the NYPD nfirmed this month.

The brick that was thrown at VERS did shatter the glass but sred patrons Wrabetz / NBC NewsOn the other si of the untry, wh hours of the cint at VERS on Saturday, a gunman Colorado Sprgs opened fire at a gay nightclub, leavg five ad and 19 wound. While DeParola strsed that his bar is a safe place and that no one was hurt durg any of the cints volvg his tablishment, he said he also feels the untry is a moment of “embolned anti-gay, anti-trans rurgence. 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.

VIO SHOWS MAN THROW BRICK AT WDOW OF NYC GAY BAR; 4TH ATTACK AT SAME SPOT A WEEK

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.

SERIAL KILLER DOCERI 'LAST CALL' RECKONS WH NYC'S HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE

"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. "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.

SPECT SOUGHT NYC ANTI-GAY SUBWAY ATTACK

"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.

Spect NYC gay bar attacks arrted NYC police charged a Manhattan man wh crimal mischief, reckls endangerment, and crimal posssn of a weapon nnectn wh tossg bricks at the wdow of VERS bar. The New York Police Department has arrted a man spected of throwg bricks at wdows of a Manhattan gay bar durg bs charged Sean Kuilan, 34, wh three unts of crimal mischief, reckls endangerment and crimal posssn of a weapon, thori told FOX 5 New York. VIDEO SHOWS SUSPECT IN NYC GAY BAR ATTACK Photos show NYC gay bar attacks spect when police ctody, left, and while the alleged act.

MULTIPLE BRICK THROWING INCIDENTS REPORTED AT NYC GAY BAR An NYPD ciser ont of VERS gay bar New York Cy. NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Subway crime ntu to surge New York Cy, even as Mayor Eric Adams rolls out his crime preventn MTA sists progrs is beg ma, but those reassuranc may not be enough to make passengers feel latt statistics show subway crime up 75% om this time last year, wh the latt attacks cludg an anti-gay attack and the slashg of a retired police alleged hate crime happened on the A tra near 190th Street Washgton Heights on Saturday, leavg the 22-year-old victim the hospal after beg btally READ | MTA unveils 7 prri, says NYPD prence helpg wh crimePolice say the man seated across om the victim began makg threateng remarks and said, "I wish I had my pepper spray" before sptg at spect repeated, "I have to start rryg my pepper spray" and spat at the victim aga, police said, and the victim stood 's when the man charged him and is seen on vio grabbg the victim by his hair and punchg him repeatedly the spect then rips the victim's hair out of his head while g an anti-gay slur, "I'm sick of all you (expletive).

COPS LOOKG FOR MAN WHO LNCHED ANTI-GAY ATTACK NYC

Published November 22, 2022 Spect bted attack on NYC gay bar New York Cy police charged a Manhattan man wh crimal mischief, reckls endangerment, and crimal posssn of a weapon nnectn wh tossg bricks at the wdow of VERS Hell's Kchen at least three tim.

NEW YORK - The NYPD arrted a man spected of throwg bricks at the wdows of a Manhattan gay bar while patrons were si.

NYC gay bar attacks spect NYPD tectiv rted Sean Kuilan, 34, of Manhattan, om the 7th Precct statn hoe to a police vehicle.

NYC GAY BAR ATTACKED SEVERAL TIM, NYPD QUTNG POSSIBLE SPECT

Kuilan is acced of tossg a brick at the wdow of VERS, a gay bar Hell's Kchen, at least three tim. A gay bar Manhattan was attacked for the fourth time a week when a man threw a brick at s wdow Saturday while patrons were si. The bar has shatterproof glass wdows, which owner David DeParola told The Post he had stalled anticipatn of possible anti-gay attacks.

More than three s after a serial killer began preyg upon gay and bisexual men at bars New York Cy, the victims and their fai, as well as the activists who fought to brg the elive murrer to jtice, are the subjects of a four-part doceri that premier Sunday on HBO and Max. Rogers was acquted a nonjury trial a few months leadg their own vtigatn to the victims wh sensivy, the creative team wanted to “peel back the onn of homophobia” by creatg the faiar feelg of most te-crime documentari — and then addg a queer twist, Caronna said. "By the time we get to 1973, I hope we set up enough so that the dience go, ‘Oh, my God, this is jt another example of extreme homophobia that allowed the murrs to keep happeng, ’” he said.

NYPD SEARCH FOR SPECT ANTI-GAY ATTACK MIDTOWN CVS

Gertler said one of the big them of “Last Call” is “the way that stutnalized homophobia and transphobia works, and that was one of the most horrifyg thgs [they disvered] when we were dog our own diggg and reportg to the circumstanc around the 1973 murr and trial and the 1988 asslt and trial. Groups and lears dozens of hate-filled letters, cludg one warng of an attack that would make the mass shootg at a gay nightclub Florida “look like a kewalk.