New York on Tap 2008
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Spirit

Formerly Twilo

530 W. 27th St. · btwn 10th & 11th Ave
Chelsea, Manhattan

Already closed by 2009

In 2026

Closed; now 6th Floor Theater at 530 West 27th Street

Later here: Gallow Green (licensed 2024–26), Sleep No More (licensed 2025–26).

Checked October 15, 2026.

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Overview

Friday and Saturday nights Spirit becomes the city's number one bachelorette destination, Hunk-O-Mania. Sunday is a gay night. Thursday is Latin.

History

A New Age face, then a court order

The New Yorker wrote that Spirit, due to open at 530 West 27th Street at the end of November 2003, was "putting a New Age face on club life"1. The week, as we listed it, ran Latin on Thursdays, Hunk-O-Mania on Fridays and Saturdays, which we called the city's number one bachelorette destination, and a gay night on Sundays.

By January 2007 the club had been closed by court order, the result of the police department's nuisance-abatement litigation2. Our listing outlived it, still sending bachelorette parties to Hunk-O-Mania on weekends.

In 2026 the local community board wrote to the State Liquor Authority about the address3.

Sources

  1. newyorker.com
  2. observer.com
  3. cbmanhattan.cityofnewyork.us

Researched October 2026.

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