Starlite Lounge

Artist/Designer: Designer Unknown

Project Location: New York, New York

Two story brick building on the corner of city block. A sign that reads

Figure 1: Exterior of Starlite Bar in the 1980s ( Source | Accessed : December 24, 2021 | Photographer: Screen capture from We Came To Sweat (2010) )

A bar with three customres and a bartender in red shirt with afro hairstyle. Colorful balloons fill the ceiling. Read acoustic tile is above the bar area. Daylight is seen through the windows.

Figure 2: Interior of Starlite Bar before its closure in 2010 ( Source | Accessed : December 24, 2021 | Photographer: Stephanie Keith )

Night time exterior of bar with people lining up on sidewalk to enter.

Figure 3: Exterior of Starlite Bar on its closing night, 2010 ( Source | Accessed : December 24, 2021 | Photographer: Screen capture from We Came To Sweat (2010) )

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Function(s):
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Related Website(s):

NYTimes: "A Brooklyn Bar and Haven Teeters on the Edge of Extinction" | Accessed : February 27, 2022

Movie Trailer: "We Came to Sweat, the Legend of Starlite" | Accessed : February 27, 2022

Significant Date(s):
1920-1929

Additional Information:
Starlite Lounge opened in 1962, and was the oldest Black-owned gay bar in New York by its closure in 2010.

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