HUD shuts down the Underground, popular gay Buffalo hangout since 1974
The Underground Niteclub, a beloved haunt for members of Buffalo's gay community for much of the past 40 years, will close Sunday after the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development denied the property owner's application to renew the bar's lease.
The decision not to renew the bar's lease followed multiple noise complaints from tenants of the Touraine Apartments at 274 Delaware Ave., a HUD official said. The bar has operated as the Underground or Buffalo Underground on the ground floor of the federally subsidized apartment building since the early 1990s.
Before that, it operated as a gay bar under the name of the Hibachi Room in the 1970s and Me and My Arrow in the early 1980s.
The complex is owned by Rockland County-based Multifamily Management, which receives subsidies from HUD for the building's 104 rental units. HUD has subsidized the building since 1982.
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