Tag: Arson
NYC Gay Bar Arson Suspect Caught • Instinct Magazine
Two pride flags were burned in front of Harlem’s Alibi Lounge on the eve of Pride Month, May 31, 2019. Image via Pix 11.
A second fire at Harlem’s Alibi Lounge started with a burning rainbow flag early Monday morning led to considerable publicity, an NYPD investigation and, The Daily Beast’s Tim Teeman reported earlier this evening, an arrested suspect.
The Daily Beast reports that NYPD has arrested Tyresse Singleton, 20, of Manhattan, who “is charged with two counts each of criminal...
NYPD Investigating Possible Hate Crime • Instinct Magazine
Thousands of parade-goers fill Sixth Avenue near Chelsea during 2019’s World Pride celebrations in New York City / Image via Andy Carr
For the second time in the last two months, New York Police are investigating a suspected arson at Alibi Lounge as a possible hate crime.
As USA Today reported earlier this morning, a “rainbow flag was set on fire at the entrance to gay bar” in the early morning hours between 12:20 a.m. and 12:45 a.m. A little...
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...
