“That’s where so many of their memories have been housed.” “A lot of people called it home,” Kunath said. Open on Bergen Street at Nostrand Avenue from 1962 to 2010, the Starlite Lounge was the “bedrock” of Crown Heights, said Kate Kunath, co-director of “ We Came to Sweat,” a documentary about the bar’s history and its closure that will debut at the NewFest film festival on Friday. Crown Heights, Prospect Heights & Prospect-Lefferts GardensĬROWN HEIGHTS - Four years after the forced closing of the spot that claims to be the oldest gay bar in Brooklyn, two filmmakers are bringing the story of the Starlite Lounge to the big screen.Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens & Red Hook.
