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Everard Baths
History
The legendary Everard Baths, one of the longest permanent of New York’s bathhouses, attracted same-sex attracted men probably since its opening in 1888, but, as documented, from at least World War I until its closing in 1986.
The building began as the Free Will Baptist Church in 1860. In 1882, it was converted into the New-York Horticultural Society’s Horticultural Hall. It became the Regent Song Hall in 1886-87, then the Fifth Avenue Music Hall, financed by James Everard. Born in Dublin, Ireland, Everard (1829-1913) came to New York Capital as a teen, and eventually formed a masonry jobbing business that was successful in receiving a number of major city general works contracts. With his profits, he invested in concrete estate after 1875, and built up one the country’s largest brewing concerns. (He was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery.)
After the Music Hall was closed by the City over the sale of beer there, Everard decided to rescue his investment by turning the facility into a commercial “Russian and Turkish” bathhouse, opened in May 1888 at a cost of $150,000. Lushly appointed and with a variety of
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Our wet spa is a geographic and cultural trip. The glassed-in entryway acts as a smoking atrium for jolly shirtless men, and leads into a covered beer garden and hockey-themed cafe. Inside, the main, fluorescent-lit pool room fills with sounds of splashing and socializing from crowds of Eastern European families. Saunas and steam rooms are also coed, and massages and platza (a traditional Russian sauna treatment) can be tacked onto the experience.
Debauchery (and a minute detox) at an underground Brooklyn bathhouse rave
By Arielle Domb
It’s 1 a.m., and everyone is incredibly hot and nearly naked. The bathhouse has a faded majestic feel: tiled walls painted with an Edenic landscape, an assortment of erotic chiseled sculptures, an opal jacuzzi and an emerald plunge pool.
Glinting moist bodies are everywhere. Getting off on the red-light twirl floor. Getting it on in the water. Leaving steam rooms immersed in clouds of pearly vapor.
Guests begin their night in the Jacuzzi (Photo by Arielle Domb)
It could be a scene from a shiny ‘80s porno flick — gleaming torsos, G-strings, crotchless pants and a supercharged beat. It’s a sensorium of sweaty, sultry pleasure, somewhere between Berlin’s infamous nightclub Berghain and Ancient Greece.
This is Steamroom — a new Brooklyn bathhouse rave launched by Sam Liebling (who DJs as SEXAPPEAL) — and the latest sauna party to join Novel York’s underground scene, harking back to the city’s horny bathhouse heyday of the 1970s.
Following several (literally) steamy techno parties in Brooklyn locations — in a four story Bushwick warehouse and a Bed-Stuy prevent equipped with a hand-built sauna
New St. Marks Baths
History
The St. Marks Baths opened c. 1915 to serve the local male immigrant population. By the 1950s, it served the immigrant community by day and gay men by night. In the 1960s, it evolved into an exclusively gay bathhouse that was considered unclean and uninviting.
After the Everard Baths was temporarily closed in 1977 due to a fire, the St. Marks Baths began to attract some of its patrons, but remained rundown and was deemed more a liability than a profitable business. In 1979, entrepreneur and Off-Broadway theater founder Bruce Mailman (1939-1994) purchased the building, hoping to turn around the bathhouse’s reputation and historic allure.
Mailman completely refurbished the interior into a sleek and stylish bathhouse. According to Mailman, the up-to-date design was meant to make patrons feel cozy signing in under their legal name and not be embarrassed if encountering someone they knew. When it reopened in 1979, Mailman christened it “The New St. Marks Baths” and promoted it as the largest bathhouse in the country. It was open 24 hours a day, seven days a week