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The Closing of an Iconic Venue
August 11 was the night the lights went off at Splash. | MICHAEL LUONGO
“Who would build a block here? It’s not the Village. It’s way up on 17th Street,” Harlem resident Lennie Harper, who went with friends to the opening night of Splash Bar during the summer of 1991, recalled thinking then. “We came in and we had a wonderful time.”
Flash forward 22 years. Harper was on 17th Highway again on Sunday, August 11, for Splash’s final overnight along with hundreds of others, capping off a week of closing events. “It’s the conclude of an era,” he said.
For Splash Bar, August 11 was the last dance, the last call
The 1980s migration of gays and lesbians into Unused York’s Chelsea neighborhood seeking cheaper rent than in rapidly gentrifying Greenwich Village, the center of New York male lover life from at least the 1920s, wasn’t yet on the international radar. All that changed with Splash’s opening, an event many regard as Chelsea’s coming out as a gay neighborhood.
Splash owner Brian Landeche didn’t look at locating the exclude in Chelsea in response to any transformation going on there
XL, A Giant Gay Club In The Out NYC Gaytel, Opens Tonight
After years of work, New York's gay hotel/resort/nightclub The Out NYC is almost ready. But before they begin letting gay (and, presumably, straight or at least curious) guests grind in their bedrooms, the substantial venture is doing something lowkey flamboyant and opening its enormous zombie club, XL. There will be gay.
As Hotel Chatter succinctly puts it, "XL hopes to distinguish itself by filling two holes in the NYC gay nightlife scene: nightclub and cabaret." And from the sounds of it they are on the right road, baby. To start, there hasn't been a recent gay spot this huge in the city in ages, and the recent XL (the old one closed in 2006) seems eager to please both fans of dancing and of cabaret—it is on 42nd Street, after all:
They’ve installed a occupied lighting system on the club’s vast stage, and will be able to modify the setup so that shows can be staged in different ways. They emphasize the importance of the cabaret several times, and I can tell [Beto] Sutter is genuinely excited about that aspect of the club. Beyond just the homosexual thing, there are a lot of really wonderful cabaret rooms in Brand-new York, but none of the
NY developer Ian Reisner to transform shuttered NYC Playboy Club venue into gay-friendly hotel
Real estate developer and hotelier Ian Reisner has signed a lease to take over the former Playboy Club space and the Cachet Boutique Hotel NYC on West 42nd Highway — and the design is to transform it into a gay-friendly hotel, restaurant and nightclub, Side Dish has learned.
The renovated property — featuring a 103-room hotel at 510 W. 42nd St. between 10th and 11th Avenues — shuttered last October after operating for six years.
The Playboy Club flamed out in 2019 after being expose for barely a year.
Reisner says he is in talks with a European boutique hotel operator to open this September. Until then, the as-yet-to-be-named hotel will operate as an Airbnb as early as this month, he said.
“It’s a gay hotel where straight friends and family are welcome too. It’s a reorientation, and a kind of play on words,” Reisner told Side Dish in a cell interview this week.
The West 42nd St. space includes a 7,500-square-foot restaurant and common area that would be open for breakfast, lunch, dinner and late-night din
New York’s First Lgbtq+ Hotel Still on Track
As we reported in February of last year, New York City was due to earn its own “gay urban resort” this past spring. But as is so often the case in hotel developments, even the finest plans lead to delays and re-jiggering; projects are in constant evolution. The good news: The Out NYC is still coming to Hell’s Kitchen, although in reduced scope. The question: when exactly? For all those couples that legally tied the knot yesterday, me thinks there will be a suite with your name on it come your first anniversary.
Till then, Phase 1 is set for completion this fall, when the 11,000-square-foot XL Nightclub (so adv needed in a city where move spots have all but died) has its grand debut in conjunction with John Blair and Beto Sutter, plus the addition of Rockit and Club 57 champs Fornabio-Voss Events.
When it’s all said and done, what will this latest incarnation of the complex stare like?
- Instead of raising the current building to five stories, developers will maintain it at three, allowing for 105 rooms instead of 127. The handle is still far west 42nd Avenue between 10th and 11th Aves, an area colonized most recently by the Yotel. “Out”
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