Where are the best places to go cruising in NYC?

Pretty much anywhere. From Central Park, gym, walking down 5th Avenue, the Subway, you name it. Easy to hook up in NYC if you're even reasonably attractive.

1980

Did your phone die from hookup app overload op?

Yep..Grinder is always an option..but it's also kinda creepy in a way in NYC..there are TOO many within a block looking to hook up..LOL including in the same starbucks as you and it can be someone you'd have no intention of ever hooking up with then it can be rather awkward

8th Avenue between 14th Street and 23rd Street - 12 midnight to 4 am. Just lean against a building and when a man walks by, hold up a cigarette and say, "Got a light, sailor?"

There are no designated cruising areas in NYC like the Dick Dock (Provincetown) or Dore Alley (San Francisco). The focus here is on WORK and productivity. The Rambles ended years ago.

Are there active outdoor cruising areas anywhere anymore?

Anywhere is pretty fair game in NYC..all about the eye contact

Mobile apps have made designated cruising areas obsolete in NYC. Just whip out the phone and see who's around.

I've found approaching men in business suits in hotel lobbies and asking, "Got the time?" usually does the trick.

Guys who cruise for sex in public places are just creepy.

Was there more than one Ramble, R6?

Oh, the stories I could tell you all about the Ramble...

Hot place back in the 70's and 80's. Men everywhere, especially on Sundays, when the large meadow would be covered with them, all splayed out on their blankets. singly or in pairs. With lots and lots of shrubbery to explore, where couplings occurred constantly, or even group scenes.

I even had sex there in the winter, when there was practically no one around, and you could do it practically any place, though there was no leafy cover.

All gone now, I understand. Last time I walked through there, in 2014, it was all roped off and practically quarantined.

You sound like a real class act R13

The High Line duh, unless you're looking for local talent.

There is a site for this but I'm sure the police monitor it also.

NYC has no "work" it's just a giant gambling casino now.

Try the powder room at Leslie Uggums new bodega and prepaid legal service

Just go to Barney's. Never very hard to pick up some dick there if that's what you're in the mood for. They are having a great shoe sale right now anyway so even if no dick you can get a good deal on some shoes.

I guess R14 just spends his time on Grindr/Growlr/Scruff, texting and texting and texting the night away.

Have fun.

New York was a different world back in the day, before the Plague. For a brief time, sex was a lot of fun.

Glad I enjoyed it then, and enjoy it now.

Gay sex now seems so relentless.

All that anonymous load swapping is what brought the plague about R20.

And there will be another one just a question of when not if

Cruising in NYC= sex=AIDS or other STDs. NYC is the capital.

Any spots in Nassau County, Long Island?

Too bad all these young gays are so insufferably judgmental about cruising and sex. Although, on the bright side, during and after the plague, it seemed improbable that gay men would change their attitudes about 'risky' behavior. So now, at least, it seems that the younger generation isn't nearly as promiscuous. But it was a lot of fun, though - the sex, that is. Something these kids will never understand.

I'm shy by nature so cruising was never something I'd be into anyway.

"The focus here is on WORK and productivity."

Spoken like a true drone.

The kind of outdoor sex was not fucking, but mostly sucking and masturbation.

It's fucking that can lead to HIV transmission. In case these sniffy posters didn't know.

The plague was not spread by sucking and masturbation, but by bareback fucking.

Which is most definitely still happening today, all the time. Many guys demand it.

Which is crazy.

I cruised all 4 seasons in Prospect Park but only during the day, never at night, when it wasn't cruisy anyway.

You must be so proud R29.

You must be so ashamed, R30.

Not at all R30, I've never sucked a strangers cock in a public park so why should I?

Kroosin for da cock. Getta the AIDS.

St. Patrick's

This guy just uploaded a video recounting his recent experience at gay Manhattan jo party, NYC Jacks

Oh, R29. The Four Seasons is not in Prospect Park. Give it a rest.

R13 tell us the stories. I love hearing about NYC back then.

Remember the days you could bang complete strangers and not worry about COVID?

*le sigh*