Tag Archives: NYC

This Sunday over 10,000 kinksters, friends, and looky-loos will crowd Chelsea’s W.28th Street for the 13th Annual Folsom Street East Fair. Performers this year include Billboard Top Ten recording artist Sylvia Tosun, as well as Peppermint, Reina, Guy, the Johns, Kissy Kamikaze, The Imperial Court of New York, Noa Tylo and Fredrick Ford. Porn producer extraordinaire Chi Chi LaRue will …

Some people are upset with a new Calvin Klein billboard in Soho which, according to the NY Daily News, shows “a teenage girl in a threesome – with suggestions of a foursome.” “It’s borderline pornographic,” said neighborhood resident Lisa Marchese, 36, a marketing specialist who was disturbed by the youthfulness of the models. “They all look so young, particularly the …

A former Columbia University employee says that he embezzled $180,000 from the school as revenge because administrators did nothing about his complaint that his male supervisor was sexually harassing him. He spent the money on a lavish wedding in the Poconos and luxury spa treatments. John Bzdil III claims in court papers that the university ignored his complaints about “continuing …

My neighbor Dr. Jeff tipped me off that a pink Rolls Royce Silver Spur II stretch limo was parked in front of the Jewish senior center across from my building. Maybe the old gals are heading to Hunk Mania for the early bird. Take me, take me!

From 6pm to 9pm today, all the museums along the Upper East Side’s vaunted Museum Mile are offering free admission as part of the 31st Annual Museum Mile Festival. One day a year, for the past 31 years, nine of the country’s finest museums, all ones that call Fifth Avenue home, collectively open their doors from 6pm – 9pm for …

New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn), a notorious homophobe who routinely attempts to block LGBT rights legislation, is pissed off because homosexuals and other groups persecuted by the Nazis will be represented at a Holocaust memorial in Hikind’s home borough. Hikind said even though 5 million people from other groups — including gays, the disabled and Jehovah’s Witnesses — were …

Representatives of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce will ring the stock market’s closing bell today in recognition of Pride Month. The market closes at 4pm. For one special day, the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce®, NYSE Euronext, NGLCCNY, Members of Congress, other LGBT advocacy organizations, and corporate champions will gather at The New York Stock …

The long-anticipated opening of the High Line, an elevated freight rail line turned into park space along the west side of Manhattan, is scheduled for June 15th. However the city is limiting admittance to 1700 persons at a time. During peak periods, access to the facility would be limited to the southernmost entrance at Gansevoort Street and interested visitors would …

New to Gotham, the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck. Via Serious Eats: Rainbow sprinkles might mean something a little different on a soft serve cone from The Big Gay Ice Cream Truck. Doug Quint, a New York-based bassoonist who just finished coursework for his musical arts doctorate at CUNY, is rolling out his playful new mobile dessert business as soon …

A retired NYPD lieutenant is suing Bumble Bee Tuna for $100K because he choked on a tiny bone and now, tragically, can no longer enjoy tuna. In fact, he cannot eat fish of any kind! Which has left him with “permanent emotional pain and suffering.” “I can’t even be near tuna now,” said the ex-cop. “Like a fish fillet sandwich? …

Sunday night’s Trippin’ On The Moon – Saint reunion party was quite simply the best fucking night out I have had in at least a year. Maybe two. Maybe three. Dr. Jeff and I arrived at 8pm to find the venue already crowded and the steam never let up until we shut the place down at 3:30am. DJs Michael Fierman …

JMG reader Clint in Boston took my photo of the Astor Place subway entrance and did some Photoshoppery magic, including popping me into the picture. It’s like an artist’s rendition of a future subway stop with a stalkery old dude added for local color. Love it.

The Engine Company 31 station was built in 1895 and designed by Napoleon LeBrun, who with his sons were the official architects for New York Ciy’s fire department in the latter half of the 19th century. The building was added to the National Registry of Historic Places in 1972 when the fire department vacated the premises for the Downtown Community …

As a commenter on Vanishing New York puts it, “No one moved to the East Village/Lower East Side to hear birdsong in the mornings and crickets at night,” but the new Thompson LES Hotel’s rooftop pool bar, which is literally inches from the windows of the surrounding apartments, has got the entire neighborhood in an uproar. Here’s a 20-second clip …

Gothamist tips us that a Mennonite choir was spotting singing in the Union Square station yesterday. The Amish are a splinter group of the Mennonites, but they probably don’t ride the subway. (Photo by Zach Klein)

We’re six days into Mayor Bloomberg’s six-month experiment and so far opinions are quite mixed. Tourists love it and rush hour traffic on nearby streets is actually moving faster. Shop owners and delivery men are much less happy, saying that deliveries must now be hand-trucked for blocks through crowded sidewalks. Postal workers, UPS, and FedEx are all giving the project …

NYC Marriage March, 6th Avenue, 7pm Cute Boy 1: I hate to say it, but I kinda like when things go bad and we have these things.Cute Boy 2: Yeah, it’s empowering.Cute Boy 1: No, it’s cuz the cruising is so fierce!

NYC’s Gotham Knights rugby club will hold their annual bachelor auction next Wednesday, June 3rd, at Manhattan’s Splash Bar. Kick off Pride month by staking your claim on Gotham’s hottest gay and straight real-life ruggers! Win tickets to fantastic theater, dining and media events, which are part of each bachelor’s, er, package. And it’s tax-deductible! Date packages include tickets to …

NYC Comptroller William Thompson has issued a report declaring that marriage equality for LGBT couples would garner the state an additional $210M in revenue in the first three years. “New York State and New York City stand to benefit economically if marriage equality is passed in our State,” Comptroller Thompson said. “Legalizing marriage for same-sex couples is not only good …