The first and only gay sports bar in New York City, right at the gay avenue on 8th in Chelsea. Many tv screens showing ESPN or other sports channels with (live) sport games.
Late at night the Locker Room in the basement opens for a bit more darker experience: porn and hot jocks behind the bar.
Mixed crowds are more focused on their drinks than on the games and the somewhat butchy though..... Daily happy until 9 pm hours where the jocks get happy.
Globalaza Sun 27 Apr 2008, 23:06 
Open a bar in the NY "gayborhood," put a flat screen tv or two above your head suspended by chains, tune it to a sports channel, add a pool, a few wooden ledges and card tables for drinks, and a pendant or two around the interior and you have GYM Bar.
It could be a college town local bar, or a just about anything else. The point being that it has nothing special about it and not much to look at except the theme on the door and a TV with the latest baseball game on. Maybe that's the draw -- it's the only one with actual sports on serving cosmos and beer.
The crowd is basic enough -- some cuties (of course) and a lot of "regular" guys. It is difficult to see it as a "destination" but makes a casual local "let's meet up and go somewhere else" type of place.
Globalaza Sun 27 Apr 2008, 23:06 
Open a bar in the NY "gayborhood," put a flat screen tv or two above your head suspended by chains, tune it to a sports channel, add a pool, a few wooden ledges and card tables for drinks, and a pendant or two around the interior and you have GYM Bar.
It could be a college town local bar, or a just about anything else. The point being that it has nothing special about it and not much to look at except the theme on the door and a TV with the latest baseball game on. Maybe that's the draw -- it's the only one with actual sports on serving cosmos and beer.
The crowd is basic enough -- some cuties (of course) and a lot of "regular" guys. It is difficult to see it as a "destination" but makes a casual local "let's meet up and go somewhere else" type of place.