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New York City, New York
Harlem's Black-owned LGBTQ+ lounge with bottle service and house vodka
Lambda Lounge opened in 2020 on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, a Black-owned LGBTQ+ lounge from married couple Charles Hughes and Ricky Solomon — who had already launched their Lambda Vodka brand in 2016. They built it as a grown-and-sexy room for Harlem's Black queer community after years of feeling unwelcome or out of place in other nightlife, and it draws regulars from across the boroughs. Inside it's lounge-scaled rather than club-scaled: an intimate bar, VIP sections with bottle service, and a rotation of DJ nights through the week plus Sunday house-music sessions. The bartenders learn your name, and the room is built for connection over spectacle. For a traveler, it pairs naturally with Alibi a few blocks uptown for a full night of Black queer Harlem nightlife you won't find replicated elsewhere in the city.
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