No photo of this bar survives from the 2008 site.

Rush

579 6th Ave · btwn 16th & 17th St.
Union Square/ Flatiron, Manhattan

In 2026

Closed; now Oramen

Checked October 15, 2026.

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Overview

Let the gay youth of New York rejoice. This three floor dance club in the former Heaven space is the new reigning king of twinkdom.

History

Heaven, renamed, still playing the Spice Girls

Rush was a three-floor gay dance bar in the space that had been the club Heaven, and in December 2007 Time Out found the room still dark and the DJ still playing the Spice Girls¹. By 2010 young crowds packed its three floors of mirrored walls and flashing lights, and college men came on weekends for the go-go boys and drag hostesses². That year Michael Musto of the Village Voice praised it for its youthful energy and multiculturalism³. Oramen, a Japanese izakaya serving ramen and sushi, now operates at 579 Sixth Avenue^{4, 5}.

Sources

Researched October 2026.

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