Tourist guide to New York gay nightlife

NYC: The City That Never Sleeps

The Big Apple. The city that never sleeps. The financial, musical, shopping and art capital of the world.....New York City must be one of most dynamic cities in the world. It's on 24/7 and you will be unable to see, live and enjoy everything is just a couple of days. Just dive in for a few days and visit all the landmark icons, shop around, go to a theatre and enjoy the NYC nightlife.

Nightlife and gay neighbourhoods

Gay life is everywhere in New York City. Nightlife is vivid and overwhelming. You can choose from endless variations on gay bars and clubs: from muscle mary clubs to cabaret piano bars, local intimate bars to trendy gay lounges. Most bars are opened from 16h till 4h.

On Manhattan, the most interesting part of NYC for (gay) tourists, the gay scene is concentrated in a couple of neighbourhoods.

In Greenwhich Village lays the origin of gay pride, where the Stonewall riots in Christopher Street awakened gay emancipation. Hence the Christopher Street Days throughout the world. Many gay bars, restaurants and clubs are located here.

A bit more fancy is neighbouring Chelsea in Lower Manhattan west of Park Avenue. Chelsea offers a wide selection of trendy bars, clubs and restaurants which are concentrated around Eighth Avenue.

The East Village is a bit more of the bohemian version of the West Village.

Midtown NYC can be well spend for the bars between the Empire State Building and the MoMa on Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Avenue.

Manhattan what to do and see ?

New York is full of landmark icons we know from the movies and television. Of course you want to see the Statue of Liberty on Ellis Island.

Or go up on the Empire State Building, since 9/11 again the highest building in town. Speaking of, Ground Zero is still an impressive visit.
Wall Street, the financial epicentre of the world, is on walking distance. Or take a stroll through Central Park, the green lung of NYC.

Of course you want to see a show on Broadway. It is so gay to see the biggest stars performing, either in a play or in a typical Broadway musical like Chicago, The Phantom of the Opera, Mary Poppins, Mamma Mia or one of the other 45 musicals or 30 plays!

On Broadway.com you can order online tickets for most of the shows. (Please do so, because you support Nighttours too). And after the show, you pop into one of the gay bars in Chelsea, a few blocks west of Broadway and Time Square.

Art

New York City has some of the biggest and best museums in the world. Most famous is the Museum of Modern Art, also know as MoMa. Here you will find one of the most impressive collections of contemporary art in the world.

Also famous, and not only for its design by Frank Lloyd Wright, is the Guggenheim Museum, near Central Park.

Gay map NYC / Manhattan

Check out our New York City interactive gay map with all the main gay bars, clubs, saunas and parties.