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Webster hall is next. It's sad to see these mega clubs die out in favor of small, been seen 300 dollar table bottle service venues. My clubbing days are fast behind me anyway, unless I travel out of the city.
The last mega club is probably Websterhall, and another club somewhere in Chelsea but that is on an higher end. Most nightlife venues are small, intimate and require table bottle service. Mega Clubs are mainly popular in environments of warmer climate such as Miami or Las Vegas.
The club scene has gentrified along with everything thats been going on. Current day ravers don't really go to clubs, they go to these big warehouse parties as well as EDC and Electric Zoo, Electric zoo entertains as many as 100,000 party goers over a 3 day weekend. Pacha is lucky if they see 100,000 over the span of a year, even though I highly doubt it. Last time I was in pacha it was nothing impressive. Limelight was my club of choice in the early 2000's....
Also JP is throwing at 72 hour new years party....dude really things this is still the 90's, he's long washed up....
I wanna build a club on the Queens shore front facing Manahttan. I want to name it Gatsby which will have a green buoy light at the top of the club illuminating its way to Manhattan. In order to get in, one must have a valid NYS ID. Any other ID folks are barred from entering. There will be 3 different dance floors, one will be a Latin/Caribbean floor, playing sounds from Cuba to Trinidad and everything in between. The 2nd floor will be the hip hop and dub floor. The last floor or the main floor will be strictly EDC.
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The last mega club is probably Websterhall, and another club somewhere in Chelsea but that is on an higher end. Most nightlife venues are small, intimate and require table bottle service. Mega Clubs are mainly popular in environments of warmer climate such as Miami or Las Vegas.
Am surprised Webster Hall is still open at all. But then again whenever am down that way late/overnight hours and see the crowd place draws guess they do what they have to do in order to make rent.
Era of large NYC clubs began to die off in the wake of the whole "Limelight murder" and subsequent crackdown on the numerous ills (drugs, sexual abuse, etc...) that supposedly went on in or around such places.
Truth to tell things started changing when the whole intimate "bottle bar" or club model was imported from Europe. Places like Life and other smaller spaces began to attract the "rich and famous" along with anyone else who wanted to run with the club set. One by one the large spaces either closed of their own will or were shut down by the city; Palladium (now a NYU dorm), Roxy, Limelight, etc... all vanished.
The passing and strict enforcement of NYC's nuisance abatement laws made things too hot and or expensive for club owners/promoters. Again seeing now the federal and local LE went after Peter Gatien and others gave some reason to move on.
Finally you started to have gentrification in many of the industrial/commercial areas where these clubs once thrived. Chelsea, Tribeca, Far West Side, SoHo, East Village, West Village started to become seriously residential. Those living in these areas were not very tolerant of the noise and other things clubs attracted and complained, a lot.
I remember going to clubs west of say 7th or 8th or down below Houston street where you had to walk blocks to find a taxi afterwards to get home. The places were just that desolate after working hours and on weekends. You walk around and some of the spots are still there such as Paradise Garage. That building went back to what it was built for in the first place; it is a garage for Verizon.
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