Forest park gay cruising

I live in Kew Gardens, Queens with my lovely wife and our 9-year-old dog. Three years ago, we purchased our gorgeous early-'30s apartment on the sixth (top) floor of a stately four-building complex which is actually inset into the footprint of Forest Park. We are about a ten-minute walk from the major subway arteries into Manhattan at Queens Boulevard, and we're even closer to the Adj Island Rail Road&#;which affords me a minute commute into Penn Station. The neighborhood also has great shopping, dining and is in walking distance to the best art house theater in the five boroughs. Unfortunately, as ideal and bucolic as the neighborhood is, we're not without a growing problem in people soliciting and engaging in sexual activity out in the roads and trails of Forest Park.

As soon as the outside temperature reaches about 50&#;, there's a proliferation of adult males cruising for sexual partners on the closed (former vehicular-only, now pedestrian-only) stretch of Forest Park Operate which begins at Metropolitan Avenue and ends at Woodhaven Boulevard&#;and on the myriad hiking/equestri

Illegal sex ruining Forest Park

It happens in the shadows.

On any given evening, walking through Forest Park, illegal sexual activity – under the cover of shadowy, within the recesses of the trails – goes on.

“Where Park Lane South curves there are no lights, it gets very dark . . . That is a hotspot,” said Deborah Martinez, who lives in Richmond Hill with her husband Jorge and six-year-old daughter. “We sit on benches along Park Lane, and we see men in drag walking up and down.”

In fact, the men will often sit on the benches at the periphery of the park and wait for a “taker” to make eye contact.

Without uttering a word, then, he will go into the park and the other will follow.

When they hear approaching footsteps, the couples scatter.

One man approached Martinez, she said, because of her dog and they struck up a conversation. When she asked him what he was doing at the park, he said, “Honey, what do you think I’m doing here, I’ve been doing this for years.”

“You can tell they’re not run

Long before the Internet and social media, gay men had to find other ways to see like-minded folks. The Project is conscious of the following places known to be cruise spots for gay men in metro St. Louis over the years. Please assist us with edits and additional information. Pictured: Garrick Theater.

Project Inventory:

Bathhouses:

  • Belcher Baths
  • Club Body Center (several variations of name)*
  • Club Fantastic
  • Continental Baths
  • Kerpen’s
  • Stadium Baths @ Martin’s
  • Washington Baths

Parks:

  • Bellerive Park*
  • Cahokia Mounds State Park, Ill
  • Carondelet Park*
  • Creve Coeur Park*
  • Forest Park*
  • Reservoir Park
  • Sister Marie Charles Park*
  • Tower Grove Park*

Movie Theatres (Adult Film Houses):

  • Garrick Theater
  • Grand Burlesque
  • Lyric Theater
  • Senate Theatre
  • Towne (Rivoli) Theater
  • World Theater

XXX Video Arcades:

  • Dr. Video
  • Fantasyland Video
  • Friends and Lovers
  • Hustler Club*
  • Maximus Video
  • New Release Video
  • Pure Pleasure Video*
  • Spanky’s Video
  • Video Store (On Olive Blvd. downtown)
  • Video Store (Grand and Chippewa)
  • Video Stores (Brooklyn, ILL)

Other:

Forest Park

I've have been there everytime got my and a lot of loads; it doesn't matter where you proceed there is always someone there to play.
Update on directions: Just take the E or F train to Kew Gardens, Union turnpike; get off, walk up to Bally's Gym and hike about 3 long blocks until you get to the park. 12/06/04 A cruiser reports: I worked there and know for fact since I also cruised there. There are no plots against the guys there. But then they are very obvious about whats going on. Its now winter and no brush or leaves to hide them and U can see them in plain site tring to carry on within site of whats called the closed road. The area is referred to as Larry's Lane.

Neighbourhood: Kew Gardens

Forest Park, Queens. Cruisy park at Park Lane South/Forest Park Drive at Metropolitan Avenue. Get the Jackie Robinson Parkway to Metropolitan Avenue east. Go two lights, turn right on Park Lane South, park one hundred yards. Or take the E or F train to Union Turnpike or the LIRR educate to Kew Gardens Station. Grab Q54 from Brooklyn or Jamaica to Park Lane South.
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