Tenants lucky enough to have landed condos in a million-dollar New York building have quickly discovered the space comes with a secret perk: namely, a panoramic view of Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park, and the various randy escapades taking place in the bushes at all hours of the day.
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DNAinfo reports tenants like Marie Gelot often go to the window to enjoy “the sweeping views of the Birch, Maple and Sweetgum trees,” only to get an eyeful of some of Mother Nature’s more scurrilous manifestations.
“I saw a lot of blowjobs, guys having sex, guys masturbating, I really saw the whole gamut,” she says. She moved out in August — so perhaps the space is currently available.
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Since the view is so all-encompassing, cops regularly use the building for sting operations, seeking out all manner of public sexy-times. The 25th Precinct has already made eight arrests for “patronizing prostitution” and seven “public lewdness” arrests this year.
Because they’re professional reporters, DNAinfo paid a visit to the park on a recent evening. This is what they saw: dogs frolicking, kids playing flag football, elderly folks playing chess, and one man giving his friend head.
“This is ridiculous,” says Joseph Manley, who lives near the park on 123rd street. “I tell them to take that shit somewhere else because there are children in the park. The kids see it, the tourists see it, some of them take pictures sometimes.”
Gelot adds that “there were days where I could see a guy giving another guy a blowjob and not far away, a girl reading a newspaper on a sunny day not realizing what was happening 20 feet behind her.”
Queerty will update this story as more information becomes available… probably around 10pm or so.
Sam6969
What an amazing view! I need to rent this flat, asap^^
Record Man
Let me know if you’ll be needing a roommate.
frankie042172
i agree if i could afford it i would have bought it this instant. turned my living room into a peep show and charge $10.00 a person to watch.
BriBri
Men are pigs! Thank God!
McBlee
I wholeheartedly agree! Pig behavior is completely normal.
nitejonboy
I thought that kind of culture died out with the invent of the internet. Guess I was wrong.
Jack Meoff
Dying not dead. It will die out eventually.
Crystix
just like books did with the advent of radio, and radio after tv. You may not be privy where it happens, but its going to happen somewhere.
Kangol
Wow, so for 50+ years men were having sex in Marcus Garvey Park but because the area was mostly working-class and poor Black and Latinx men the residents mostly didn’t care, though the cops did harass people, but now that rich white people move in, they’re complaining. They even got rid of the Mt. Morris Baths up there, wasn’t that enough? Gentrification strikes again!
Brian
Or, it has nothing to do with race and the view from this building is exposing what was a lot more hidden over the past 50 years.
It’s really not an unreasonable complaint, if I saw lesbians muff diving every time I looked out my window, I’d complain too.
jcoberkrom
They’re not complaining they’re advertising!!!!
money718
Sigh… Let the men enjoy themselves.
Jaxton
Why? It’s a public space. They need to respect it.
Brian
And you guys thought Trump wouldn’t make America great again.
tham
How so 1990s.
Reading this article makes me want to listen to George Michael.
Bob LaBlah
Personally I still think it. Not only has he NOT made America great again but look at what one of the most neocon columnist in America said about him a few days ago in the Washington Post and prompted a response from three thousand liberals who for the most part actually supported what he said. It took guts for ol’ George Will to FINALLY say what we knew he was thinking all along.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/sinister-figures-lurk-around-our-careless-president/2017/10/13/09c9448c-af6e-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html?utm_term=.ce651fa272ac#comments
Crystix
wtf does this post even mean brian? srsly
Jaxton
They really need to crack down with gusto on this appalling activity. The aphrodisiac of risk and anonymous encounters needs to be addressed with visits to a psychologist.
Crystix
HOW DARE PEOPLE HAVE SEX OUT OF WEDLOCK! AND THEN ONLY WITH A HOLE IN THE SHEET!
Bob LaBlah
First, the closet that they paid a million bucks for (or got a loan for that amount, shall we say) is either in the basement or on the first floor and I am willing to bet it does not exceed eight-hundred square feet, if that. Imagine paying a million bucks for a studio or efficiency and thats all you got. Even in Harlem the reality of NYC real estate is what it is. Secondly, Harlem is HEAVILY patrolled by the NYPD and it seems hard to believe this type of “cruising” is still going on, even at night. This is not the 1980’s Christopher street pier we’re talking about. This is a renovated area where all it takes is ONE phone call to the police regarding gay men and lewd conduct and the area will be instantly heavily patrolled. A real estate agent for the building had to have contacted Queerty with this knowing the ignorant who might qualify for a loan of that amount will look into the area.
dinard38
I could understand this behavior 50 years ago, but not today. I’ll never understand why dudes would take such an extreme risk just to get off. But they get off on the risk of getting caught. You will NEVER find me in a bush in a park getting head.
This is a disgusting behavior that needs to stop.
McBlee
Sadly it is the thrill of being caught. It is a reason for many people to have this type of hook up. I’m not saying it is right, I am saying that it will continue to happen whether or not someone objects. It happens all over the world.
phallictomato
“I saw a lot of blowjobs, guys having sex, guys masturbating, I really saw the whole gamut. She moved out in August”. If she doesn’t want to see it, I’d gladly take her place.
Nahald
I guess those who are stunned or complaining didn’t follow one simple rule when buying real estate, that is: Check out the neighborhood at different times of the day BEFORE you pluck down a deposit.
McBlee
I totally agree with you Nahald!
gaym50ish
They’re just making America gay again.
Jaxton
Most of the men who cruise parks are not gay-identifying. They are usually married guys who find women’s bodies hot but who are deprived of female consent on a regular basis. They are ordinary Joes looking for quick sexual relief.
It’s partly the fault of women.
Jaxton
Apropos of what I just said, these married men who cruise will find any willing mouth for that relief. The fact that it’s a male mouth is irrelevant. In fact, these married men sometimes prefer male mouths due to the greater muscle strength of the male tongue.
By the way, I’m not saying that the men’s wives are to blame for the man’s choice to cruise. Women are mostly asexual and so, when they refuse consent, it’s usually because their bodies don’t want it.