Weekend event: New York: Defunct clubs of New York City

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

was a club on West 31st street that operated in the 80s; it was only a dance club on Wednesday and Friday nights. Sadly, I never went there.



Limelight was a notorious 80s club at the corner of 6th avenue and 21st streets, located in a former church. (I did go there!) It was part of a chain of clubs located in major cities; the New York one is now, fittingly, the "Limelight Marketplace." (What goes around comes around.)

By far, the defunct club I'd most like to time-travel back to is Slug's, a bar-turned-jazz-club, which opened in 1965 and closed in 1972—not long after trumpeter Lee Morgan's companion shot him dead at the bar. Not many venues can survive something like that.

The location [242 East 3rd Street] was home to "A Real Good Plumber" for several years, and is now a bakery.


Albert Ayler outside of Slug's

Comments

[ursaas.livejournal.com]

good

[ponitacupcake.livejournal.com]

the bakery has empanadas, looks good.

[kshandra]

Ah, the Slimelight. We had only just gotten one out here on the West Coast before the chain imploded, so I never got to go.