Tag: Harlem

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...

A burnt rainbow flag outside of the Alibi Lounge in HarlemFor the second time in nearly a month, someone has burned the rainbow flag outside of New York City’s only black-owned gay bar, the Alibi Lounge in Harlem. Between 12:20 and 12:45 a.m. early Monday morning, someone set fire to a rainbow flag hanging from a velvet rope outside of the bar’s front entrance. Previous to this, on May 31, surveillance cameras captured the sneakers of a person who walked up...