In a city with dozens of gay bars (gay men have clubs, lounges, cabarets, sports bars, karaoke bars, piano bars and dive bars), so few remain for lesbians, with none opening in the last 30 years. Beach Haven on Staten Island drew in women’s softball teams and professionals in the 1970s and 1980s 70 Grove Street wasn’t a pizza place but popular dance clubs Duchess, Grove and Pandora’s Box Crazy Nannies collected a diverse crowd in The Village from 1991-2004 Bum Bum Bar offered lesbian Latinas in Queens a place to dance from 1991-2018 and the list of long-gone space continues. Decades ago, New York City was home to a plethora of lesbian bars in every borough.
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