Tag Archives: West Village

Gay bashing incidents were reported in two Manhattan gayborhoods over the weekend, including one that actually took place inside the historic Stonewall Inn. Two Staten Island men were accused of pummeling Benjamin Carver, 34, early Sunday at the West Village bar known as the birthplace of the gay-rights movement. The battered Carver of Washington D.C., fought back and later identified …

The business on the corner is famed bear hangout Rockbar, nee Ramrod, nee Dugout.

The Log Cabin Republicans are the sponsor of today’s street fair in the West Village, where their booth is across from the tube socks and next to the gypsy wear. The LCR’s is just one of the city’s 321 annual street fairs, a number that Bloomberg recently capped after complaints that most of them are run by the same three …

JMG, Towleroad, Josh Wood Productions, Fly-Life, and Downtown Records co-host a listening party tonight for Night Work, the upcoming third studio release from the Scissor Sisters. LOCATION: Rockbar NYC on Christopher Street in the West Village. TIME: 7pm-9pm. BOOZE: Open Absolut and Budweiser bar from 7:30-8:30.

Tomorrow night JMG, Towleroad, Fly-Life Inc., Josh Wood Productions and Downtown Records present a “first listen” playback party celebrating the launch of the third Scissor Sisters album, Night Work. The party runs for two hours beginning at 7pm at Rockbar in the West Village. Open vodka and beer bar courtesy of Absolut and Budweiser from 7:30-8:30. I have a feeling …

Seen at a sidewalk flea market on Christopher Street yesterday.

Staffers at the NYC LGBT Community Center in Manhattan’s West Village found a burned and torn rainbow flag affixed to their front wall this morning. Executive director Glennda Testone: “This morning our building staff arrived and discovered a burned rainbow flag hanging on one of the poster display cases outside our building. We called the NYPD, and they immediately dispatched …

As I mentioned earlier this month, St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan’s West Village is set to close in bankruptcy very shortly. New York Magazine’s David France reflects on St. Vincent’s role in the early years of the AIDS pandemic. The obituary for St. Vincent’s, when it is finally written, will recall that the hospital’s greatest moment—and its darkest—came in the …

St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan’s West Village voted to close itself last night after failing to resolve an estimated $700M in debt. The famed hospital served the gay community as a sort of ground zero during the early years of the AIDS pandemic. The exact timing for the closing of St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan, which has about 400 inpatient beds, …

Well known NYC gay activists Allen Roskoff and Corey Johnson say they were harassed outside a West Village gay bar by a man later identified as an undercover NYPD detective. Chi Chiz, a Christopher Street bar favored by black gay men, has been the subject of a recent raid over allegations of drug dealing inside the club. Club owners are …

I’m not a fan but I know my homos well enough to expect a little bit of squealing about this. Forty-eight years after she first appeared in the club opening for Miles Davis, Barbra Streisand will celebrate the release of “Love Is the Answer,” her new album of jazz and popular standards, by performing a selection of its songs at …

My pal and former coworker, the hilarious Robbyne Kaamil, will be doing her raunchy stand-up act at the Duplex in the West Village this Thursday at 7pm. Comedian/actress Robbyne Kaamil who has matched wits with Howard Stern returns to the stage with her hilarious and thought provoking one woman show, Raw & Real. Robbyne uses explosive poetry, side-ripping comedy and …

Two weeks ago my beloved Dugout inexplicably and officially became the Ramrod. Out went the jukebox so skillfully curated all these years by DJ Superdaddy. In came go-go boys, a leather shop, and a live DJ with a love for Britney and Madonna. Heavy, heavy sigh. A poster on the door gives the impression that “Ramrod has come back!” to …

The NYPD is asking for tips if anybody witnessed a gay man being brutally assaulted the near the corner of Christopher and 7th Avenue late on Wednesday night. Alan Williams, 50, is in a coma after the attack. Roving hoodlums were out for blood when they bashed in the head of an accountant on a West Village street Thursday, possibly …

Sad news. The nation’s oldest gay bookstore, the West Village’s Oscar Wilde Bookshop, will close on March 29th due to the “current economic crisis.” The store was opened in 1967 on Mercer Street by Craig L. Rodwell, who was influential in the gay rights movement. It later moved to 15 Christopher Street. Mr. Rodwell, who inspired similar owners of gay …

I guess this guy is going to be taken off the Sex And The City tour. Via Gothamist: At at a time when any decent baker should have been selling racially harmonious black and white cookies by the truckload, one Greenwich Village bakery popular with celebrities and shows like Sex and the City has outraged neighbors by selling a “Drunken …

The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force holds a cocktail reception tonight in the West Village to kick off the 2009 New York Leadership Awards. The event takes place at Design Within Reach at 408 W.14 Street from 7pm – 9pm. More details here, where you can RSVP. This here website thingy will be a media sponsor of the awards, …