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- Day Trips
- Cheap rents and cultural diversity make Brooklyn fertile ground for projects off the beaten path. Artsy types can check out experimental queer performance at Glasslands or the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. In the spring, watch the cherry trees blossom in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, then have drinks or dinner at one of the businesses on Fifth Avenue. Hipsters flock to Williamsburg, where many bars lure young folks with free pizza and ironic theme nights.
- Gay Info
- Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center 212/620-7310. 208 W 13th, 10am-10pm, 11am-11pm Sat, till 9pm Sun, www.gaycenter.org.
- Lesbian & Gay Switchboard of NY 212/989-0999.
- Audre Lorde Project 718/596-0342. 85 S Oxford St, Brooklyn, LGBT center for people of color, www.alp.org.
- Aids Group
- Gay Men's Health Crisis 212/367-1000, www.gmhc.org.
- Gay Aa
- Intergroup Gay AA 212/647-1680, www.nyintergroup.org.
- Crystal Meth Anonymous 212/642-5029, www.nycma.org.
- Gay Pride
- Last Sunday in June. 212/807-7433, www.hopinc.org.
- Brooklyn Pride - June. 718/670-3337, www.brooklynpride.org.
- Annual Events
- March - Saint-at-Large Black Party, www.saintatlarge.com.
- May - AIDS Walk 212/807-9255, www.aidswalk.net/newyork.
- May/June - NewFest: NY LGBT Film Festival 212/571-2170, www.newfestival.org.
- July - HOT Festival of queer performance, web: hotfestival.org.
- July - Siren Music Festival, www.villagevoice.com/siren.
- September - Howl Festival 212/243-3413, www.howlfestival.com. Poetry & cabaret in Tompkins Square Park in the East Village.
- November - New York Lesbian/Gay Experimental Film/Video Fest 212/742-8880, www.mixnyc.org. Film, videos, installations & media performances.
- Airport
- John F Kennedy International. 1 hr ($45+ taxi ride) to Manhattan.
- LaGuardia: 45 minutes ($35+ taxi ride).
- Taxi
- Wave an arm on any streetcorner for a taxi.
- Public Transport
- Public transit MTA 718/330-1234, www.mta.info.
- Tourist Attraction
- American Museum of Natural History 212/769-5100, www.amnh.org.
- Broadway.
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden 718/623-7200, www.bbg.org.
- Carnegie Hall 212/247-7800, www.carnegiehall.org.
- Central Park.
- Ellis Island, www.ellisisland.org.
- Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art 718/638-5000, www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa.
- Empire State Building 212/736-3100, www.esbnyc.com.
- Greenwich Village.
- Guggenheim Museum 212/423-3500, www.guggenheim.org.
- International Center of Photography 212/857-0000, www.icp.org.
- Lincoln Center 212/875-5000, www.lincolncenter.org.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 212/535-7710, www.metmuseum.org.
- Museum of Modern Art 212/708-9400, www.moma.org.
- Radio City Music Hall 212/307-7171, www.radiocity.com.
- Rockefeller Center.
- Statue of Liberty 866/782-8834.
- Times Square.
- United Nations 212/963-8687, www.un.org.
- Wall Street.
- World Trade Center Memorial.
- Visitors Bureau
- 212/484-1200.
- nycgo.com
- Weather
- A spectrum of extremes with pleasant moments thrown in. Spring and fall are the best times to visit.
- Best Views
- Coming over any of the bridges into New York or from the Empire State Building.
- Where The Girls Are
- Upwardly mobile literary types hang in the West Village, hipster dykes cruise the East Village, upper-crusty lesbians have cocktails in Midtown, and working-class dykes live in Brooklyn.