by Jen G 
I recently received an email from a young lesbian woman who is moving to NYC for school and wanted to know whether Greenpoint is a gay friendly neighborhood. Her timing was right since I began working on a series that asks the local LGBTQ community: Is Greenpoint gay friendly?
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My first stop was Cafecito Bogotá (1015 Manhattan Ave), Greenpoint’s own Colombian…
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“Manhattan is so played out” – yes so please bring all your wealthy Manhattan gay community here to kick out everyone who’s been enjoying cheap rents for years in Greenpoint. Greeeaaaat.
Its not a diss on gays, its a diss on the rich who can afford to move to “hip” eg “cheap places where artists live for that reason alone who therefore make it hip” places and immediately make it not hip because they displaced all the people who made it cool in the first place.
Looks like we will all be in Queens soon…being forced to move to Queens because of gay people, that irony is probably as delicious as the food mentioned in this article
not gay, and these guys and place are awesome. i love their chorizo croissants in the AM.
It’s Colombian not Columbian
i always screw that up.
https://thecitypaperbogota.com/opinion/columbia-vs-colombia/
You’ve lived in NY all you life and you didn’t know there’s a big gay scene in Jackson Heights? Wow.
I actually grew up nearby. Surely you know everything.
Veronica People’s Club and Black Out both closed due to constant harassment from the police. Black Out received many violations due to “noise complaints”. I could never understand this, as the rest of the building is empty and there are no night time neighbors to speak of. I have no idea why Veronica People’s Club was singled out as being as unruly when Lulu’s is just a few doors away and had a far rowdier and loud clientèle. I do think that our local police department has an agenda against gay owned and operated bars. Just sayin’…