It was Mafia bosses who founded hot spots, from the famed Stonewall Inn to the lesbian haunt the Howdy Club to the 181 Club, known as “the homosexual Copacabana.” And it was Mafia muscle running the clubs behind the scenes. Alexander Hortis in his new history, “The Mob and the City,” adding that the State Liquor Authority and NYPD used this excuse to close hundreds of bars in the 1930s and ’40s that catered to “homosexuals soliciting partners.”Įnter the wiseguys. “New York State’s liquor laws barred ‘disorderly’ premises,” writes C. Same as with gambling, prostitution or bootlegging, all it took was the customary payoffs for cops to look the other way. Yet where most New Yorkers saw deviance, the Mafia saw profit. In short, a gay bar was an illegal business - or at a minimum, a business subject to relentless harassment. Two: The Mafia, principally Vito Genovese, controlled Manhattan’s West Side, including the Village. One: It was illegal to be gay, with police routinely hauling in homosexuals on charges of lewdness or indecency. Two conditions brought these seemingly oppositional groups together. The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York” I can give you all the detaIls by DM, and we're in no rush as the 2 buyers who are currently considering it have to figure out financing.Who’d have guessed that, as far back as the 1930s, it was the mob who would give homosexuals a place to mingle, hook up and eventually coalesce as a movement - by running the city’s underground gay bars. And we can be creative with the financials if need be. i would ideally LOVE to see a group of nightlife people buy it together, sort of a nightlife cooperative. Bedlam is such a cool space, and versatile. This is a really good opportunity if you have always wanted to own a bar. If you put together a group of nightlife poeple, you could put together and offer and we could work it out with you, and help you start a business. I am telling you this because while we have it on sale with a broker, and have some people interested, i would REALLY love to see Bedlam go into my nightlife friends hands, and not just some random people.
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