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New York City, New York
The only gay bar on the Upper East Side, with drag and karaoke
The Toolbox is the Upper East Side's neighborhood gay bar, holding down a stretch of Second Avenue near 90th Street since the 1990s — a rarity in a city where most of the gay scene clusters in the West Village, Hell's Kitchen, and Brooklyn. It's a two-floor dive that's gay-owned and run with no cover and no pretense: pool table, jukebox, and video games upstairs, a lounge with TVs down below. Programming fills most nights of the week — karaoke, trivia, weekend drag shows, charity bingo, plus seasonal blowouts for Halloween, Pride, and New Year's. The crowd skews neighborhood regulars over downtown scene-chasers, the kind of room where the bartender clocks your usual by the second visit. If you're staying uptown and don't feel like trekking to Hell's Kitchen, this is your spot.
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