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NYU students will now have classes in Bottom Line's old building starting tomorrow. NYU evicted the old music club from its 15 West 4th Street space, a space that had seen Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed and Muddy Waters, last year, in an effort to further own most of lower Manhattan. The Post reports that NYU will be "using the space for what we said we'd use it for - teaching and learning." West and East Village residents be warned: Learners are may be trying to horn your favorite joints, or even your landlords, out!
The Bottom Line's management tells the Post they are still looking for a new venue. And another club that is closing due to the hot real estate market (in this case, condos in the Lower East Side) - Luna Lounge.
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"NYU evicted the old music club from its 15 West 4th Street space...last year, in an effort to further own most of lower Manhattan," espoused Jen "I'm Just A Blogga" Chung. Once again the fine fine reportage from Gothamist! First - NYU owned the space all along. The Bottom Line was a tenant renting the space FROM NYU. Of course, if you'd done even marginal research you would've know that. Then again, if you had read the article you linked to - something I know is rare for Gothamist - you'd have seen The Bottom Line was $190,000 behind in rent. Any landlord in NYC would have kicked The Bottom Line out much much earlier than NYU did.
Shut up. Everyone knows NYU owns that building. That's what it means to evict someone. You can't kick someone out of a building you don't own.
The Bottom Line had put together more than enough money to cover the back rent, from contributors like Sirius Sattelite radio. NYU didn't want it. They'd rather have the space.
Put simply: Don't be a dick.
I just want to say that yes, the Bottin Line was in arrears for back rent. But as boots points out, they raised much more money than that in fundraising and would have easilly survived. The Bottom Line were no less deadbeats than any other music venue in this city. And when called on it, they did right.
But NYU basically pushed them out to make room for more NYU related garbage. All jokes about NYU aside, but at this point the heart of "the Village" is owned by NYU. Perhaps this is a great draw for out of town students, but once they get here, what part of "the Village" is left for them. The cool venues and theaters and other things are simply gone. And I'm not even that old and I remember them.
While I am all for progress, this kind of behavior on NYU's part is much more than gentrification. At the rate they are going, ALL of the Village will simply be one huge NYU dorm.
Heck, look at the Palladium dorms. And the Waverly theater that is GONE. I hope some Enron level scandal hits NYU and the Tisch Family soon. So the damned city can at least be more colorful and not all purple.
as for luna lounge closing, while i love a place to see music for free, the sound system there sucks and so its no big loss.