To him, it’s an all inclusive environment. It always annoyed me as a kid that certain bars were women bars men bars black bars leather bars you had to be a certain thing to get in and feel comfortable.” “But we want it to be a place for everybody. “The original concept behind Boxers and what we try to do was to market to the sports community,” Hynds said.
There’s also a short wine list and tons of food from appetizers to pub snacks to full meals. On the menu is a selection of fun, seasonal crafted cocktails like the Pretty Peach (Stoli Peachik, peach schnapps, orange liqueur, fruit juices) and Stoli Key Lime Pie Martini (Stoli Vanil, lime juice, and whipped cream). The jam-packed event lineup includes Sunday morning NFL games, Monday Latin nights, Tuesday karaoke parties, Thursday urban nights, weekly RuPaul’s Drag Race screenings, after-dark open mics and even drag performances.
Like the other locations in Hell’s Kitchen, Chelsea, and the Upper East Side, the Boxers in Washington Heights is a gay sports bar, featuring viewing parties for RuPaul’s Drag Race and NFL games. “A lot of our clientele have been coming from the area to our parties for years.” “Washington Heights deserves its own neighborhood gay bar,” Rob Hynds, o-owner of Boxers NYC, told AM NY. The Boxers NYC chain brought a gay bar back to Washington Heights this month, the first since 2014. A post shared by Boxers NYC on at 8:33pm PDT
