![]() Each has its own culture and often its own set of protocols, ranging from parking position to the flashing of headlights or blinkers as mating calls. Long Island spots include Two Mile Hollow Beach in East Hampton, the Field 6 parking lot at Jones Beach, a rest stop near Exit 52 on the Long Island Expressway and the park-and-ride lot on Route 110 in Melville. They troll remote parking lots that become de facto pickup spots well known in gay circles but not to the general public. ![]() But in the less-accepting climate of the suburbs and the boroughs outside Manhattan, gay men often resort to courting one another from the relative safety and privacy of their cars. Manhattan may have its gay bars and such traditional pickup spots as the woods of the Ramble in Central Park and the piers of the West Village. ![]() Their playing field is the parking lot itself and the goal is a sexual encounter, usually quick and anonymous. The other end is popular with another set with a much lower profile in this suburban setting: gay men cruising for sex. At one end of the lot, retirees arrive to practice their golf and mothers in minivans gather to wait for their Little Leaguers. There is a narrow parking lot in Cunningham Park in Queens surrounded by playing fields for adult softball and youth soccer and baseball.
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