Tag: Alibi Lounge
Pride flags set on fire outside New York gay bar in possible hate crime
New York police have launched an investigation to a possible hate crime after two Pride flags were burned outside a Harlem bar.
Police responded to a call outside the Alibi Lounge on West 139th street late Friday night. Unknown vandals had set the flags aflame, though by the time police arrived, rainfall had extinguished the fire. Investigators are now trying to determine if the incident should be classified as a hate crime.
The news reached New York governor Andrew Cuomo the...
Arsonist burns rainbow flags outside New York’s only black-owned gay bar
Early Friday morning, the day before Pride month, someone burned rainbow flags located outside of Alibi Lounge, New York City’s only black-owned gay bar. Police are now investigating the incident as a hate crime.
Surveillance cameras captured the sneakers of a person who walked up to the flags hanging outside the bar’s downstair entrance. The person knelt down, set fire to the flags and then walked off. Moments later, a woman notified the bar that their flags were aflame and...
