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So I went to Webster Hall on Saturday night and had a pretty good time. It is one of the last superclubs left in NYC and I thought it was pretty cool.
But I read that the venue is changing ownership, and closing for about a year and a half for renovations. I see on the Wikipedia page that the place will be renamed to Spectrum Hall and will be strictly for concerts and sporting events when it reopens.
If that's true, that's super lame, it will basically just be an Applebee's with concerts.
I'm not sure if it's true or not, does anyone here know?
It looks like Websterhall just got sold. The family that owned the establishment sold the structure for about 35 million dollars. You see, clubs in NYC also do not generate revenue in the long run. This is why clubs in this city come up short and don't last long. This is also another reason why small lounges are taking a foot hold in the NYC club scene. Small lounges are easier to manage and not as cost effective as larger venues. I befriended a guy who owned a club for 2 years that sat in the space where Lavo is today. He said clubs do not make money here in NYC. The reason why Lavo makes money is that Lavo has club chains across the country. Lavo in Miami and Vegas helps pay the rent in Manhattan. With the end of Websterhall, this night club scene in NYC is officially dead for the average Joe and Jane. If you are the average Joe, just hop on a plane to Vegas or Miami for a good time.
It looks like Websterhall just got sold. The family that owned the establishment sold the structure for about 35 million dollars. You see, clubs in NYC also do not generate revenue in the long run. This is why clubs in this city come up short and don't last long. This is also another reason why small lounges are taking a foot hold in the NYC club scene. Small lounges are easier to manage and not as cost effective as larger venues. I befriended a guy who owned a club for 2 years that sat in the space where Lavo is today. He said clubs do not make money here in NYC. The reason why Lavo makes money is that Lavo has club chains across the country. Lavo in Miami and Vegas helps pay the rent in Manhattan. With the end of Websterhall, this night club scene in NYC is officially dead for the average Joe and Jane. If you are the average Joe, just hop on a plane to Vegas or Miami for a good time.
The big club scene went out when Peter Gatien got deported! It's a lounge city, now!
I was always a Club Savage, Nell's, Pulse, Bentley's and Shadow cat! Webster Hall, Tunnell, Limelight, Paladium, Sound Factory (the big one on the west side, not Sound Factory Bar in Midtown) and Club USA were a bit too big and over the top for me.
Sad to see a piece of NYC history go. I had been to the studio downstairs in Webster Hall for rock and metal shows and that little room had that old school feel also.
The dive bars will be next. Everything is new and sanitized. Places like the Mars Bar was a right of passage to go to, where there was a possibility you would never be the same upon leaving between the crazy patrons, cheap booze and dirty counters.
Always liked seeing punk/metal shows at Webster. They had those more intimate layouts where there's no barricade between the crowd and stage...always makes for a fun show. Kinda like Lamour back in the day. I don't know of too many new venues are are like that.
Webster Hall was always the commercial club even way back in my time. Not surprised they're still running.
was the place where teenie boppers could get in because to drink they gave people special wristbands so even if they couldn't drink they could hang out anyways (and pretty much do every party drug while they were there)
The big club scene went out when Peter Gatien got deported! It's a lounge city, now!
I was always a Club Savage, Nell's, Pulse, Bentley's and Shadow cat! Webster Hall, Tunnell, Limelight, Paladium, Sound Factory (the big one on the west side, not Sound Factory Bar in Midtown) and Club USA were a bit too big and over the top for me.
Big club "scene" was already dying by the time PG got what was coming to him; it was helped along by Rudy G's "nuisance abatement" laws and changing tastes.
The "bottle bar" concept had already been imported to New York City by Jeffrey Jah and Mark Baker in a modest way at the Tunnel. Steve Lewis and Jeffrey Jah would take things further with when Life opened on Bleecker Street.
Slowly but surely the A-list crowd began to forsake huge clubs of old in favor of more intimate spaces such as Life. By the last years of operations most of the large clubs were pretty much abandoned by the "trendy" crowd absent special events.
doesn't look like they are going to have an edm show anytime soon.
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