Meet the man behind one of N.Y.C.'s biggest Pride parties

Sitting at a beer garden on New York’s Governors Island in the spring of 2010, world-renowned event producer Jake Resnicow was stuck.

Sitting at a beer garden on New York’s Governors Island in the spring of 2010, world-renowned event producer Jake Resnicow was stuck. 

Earlier that year, Resnicow had quit his high-paying job as a consultant for accounting giant Deloitte to launch his career as an event producer, throwing a party for New York City’s Pride weekend. But Resnicow’s venue, a bar in Brooklyn, had just informed him that it would be closing down permanently.

Looking around at the 172-acre island of mostly empty fields and abandoned military structures just south of Manhattan, Resnicow had an idea. He would throw the party there. He approached a bartender at one of the few venues operating on the island.

“I remember going up to one of the bartenders and being like, ‘Hey, have you guys ever done an event here?’ and they were like ‘No, that’s not going to happen,’” Resnicow, 37, recalled.

The next day, decked out in a suit and tie, Resnicow returned, met with city officials unannounced and convinced them to give him the rights to throw the first-ever large-scale concert on Governors Island — now known for its many summer music events.

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