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New York City, New York
East Village cruise bar with a dark room and go-go boys since 1998
The Cock is a two-level gay cruising bar in the East Village that has run since 1998 across three locations, all within a few blocks of each other — opening on Avenue A, moving to 29 Second Avenue in 2005, and landing at its current 93 Second Avenue home, a former Lit Lounge space marked from the street only by a red neon rooster. Upstairs is a small, dimly lit lounge with a stage, DJ booth, and go-go boys; the basement is a dark room. Promoter Mario Diaz built its early identity as a deliberately campy, rock-and-roll revival of pre-AIDS downtown nightlife, and it spent its early years dodging raids under the Giuliani administration while building a name as one of the city's last true cruising bars. It closed during the pandemic and reopened on Second Avenue in 2021, and it remains one of the few dedicated gay cruising spaces left in New York. Cash only, with a cover on weekends after midnight — come for the crowd and the sleaze, not the cocktails.
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