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I *love* that site!

From my experience, so-called organized crime has very little interest in gay bars and clubs in NYC these days. There is something much more lucrative out there-- real estate. From the 1940s through the 1980s, the "crime families" acquired huge swaths of real estate, often for partial payment of "cash under the table," to launder their profits from drugs, gambling, gay bars & underground clubs. Now that their property is worth hundreds of millions, they have legitimized themselves-- at least in Manhattan.

Furthermore, the only reason the "Mafia" had any interest in gay bars was that they were operating illegally. Now that those laws have been eliminated, and indeed no one really gives a hoot whether you are gay or not, the systematic corruption surrounding those laws has vanished, and any Mob interest has waned.
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