New York gay bars are declining — and Covid isn’t all to blame
David DeParolesa is trying to revive an endangered species: the gay bar. His plan was hatched in 2020, as DeParolesa watched storefronts darken one by one in his Midtown Manhattan neighborhood, Hell’s Kitchen. The 40-year-old tech executive started wondering if Covid-19’s economic devastation might be an opportunity to fulfill his long-held dream of opening a…
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