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The Music Box
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40-08 74th St.,
Queens, NY 11365
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Hours
Daily, 4pm-4am
Nearby Subway Stops
E, F, G, R, V at Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Ave.
Payment Methods
Cash Only
Profile
Local gay-club impresario Nestor Romero opened the Music Box in 1993, three years after he introduced his across-the-way favorite Friend’s Tavern. Because the layout is identical and the congenial bartenders are similarly inclined to greet you with a handshake and a smile, patrons freely amble between one bar and the other, interrupting their chatter only for the looming rumble of the elevated train overhead. Such is gay life in the well-traversed southwest pocket of Jackson Heights. Like all doppelgangers, the bars do have minute differences: The marginally younger sibling sports a pool table and five TV screens and assumes the character of a backstage drama as performers in the brazen Thursday drag show alternately fight their nervousness or ham up their showgirl charisma.
| 10.0 | "Highly Recommended" Average Reader Rating on a Scale of 10 |
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Always a fun trip
chucknyc123 from 76092 | Posted on 9/20/09
whenever I go visit friends or eat Mex in the wonderful diverse neighborhood of Jackson Heights. The reviewer has forgotten the great Latin music all the bars over there play.
View from the Barstool
micnyc80 from 11372 | Posted on 7/9/07
Friendly staff, weekday regulars, weekend events and "top-shelf" cocktail prices that hover around $5 make this straight-friendly neighborhood bar a place where "everybody knows your name." If you're tired of the Queer "scene" in Manhattan and are interested in bars and clubs surrounded by the best international cuisine the city has to offer, take a ride on the E,F,G,R,V or 7 trains to Jackson Heights. You won't be disappointed.
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