Should have called USPA

If clubs stopped letting in kids under 21 they wouldn't have HALF of the problems that they do. It's their own fault!

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I was at Splash and the place was jam packed early. Great night with lots of hot guys! Madonna Sorry playing, They workers started clearing the tables for the dance floor and in walk lots of poice, the music stops and the crowd heads outside, I have not been out for a year!! What a night.......lol

A attended the pre-club night legit. music concert at Avalon on Fri. 31 March, 2006. I experienced the same puzzling end of the music and maasing of NYPD in windbreakers. The first hard-working, earnest, performing artist, glenn kotche, the Wilco drummer who is pursuing his own multi-cultural and higher-brow drumming career, completed his set and was well received. But the second act, Teddy Thompson, a 30-year old Brit who lives in NY, is the son of British folk-greats Richard and Linda Thompson and who has just released his own second album, "Separate Ways," was cut short by these apparent drug- and liquor-law infractions. Pity. The club and the clubbing activities would have started later, at 11 pm, but our local law enforcement team chose to swat down the biggest NY show yet for adorable Teddy Thompson at 9:50 pm, or so. Who knows what the club owners did or did not do. I have written the Police Department asking then specifically what happened. What I do know is that the show did not go on - to applause, Teddy volunteered to continue on the sidewalk. That did not happen, though. I cannot decide if the Club owners or the Police are more tawdry. I would tend to believe commenter "Julien Amerelle" who speculates that land developers want the gay clubs OUT and the whatever venues IN; but I dont know for a fact. But this was a tame, folky affair, with a solid young artist chugging along.

"Instead of devoting time, money, and resources to protect the city from its REAL enemies, the NYPD squanders it all on shutting down clubs-- BORING CLUBS I might add."

Avalon is pretty boring. Spirit has its moments. I stay away from most clubs except maybe Roxy and Crobar every once in a while.

But I wouldn’t say that these raids are a waste of resources. Even I was surprised at the amount of dope being handed out at most of these clubs, ESPECIALLY at Roxy. I’ve seen coke being dealt out in the coatroom there, and there are always people inside walking around that are obviously looking to sell and people looking to buy.

(And by the way some people dance, u kinda know they're high already)

It’s important that the NYPD keeps these places under control, or things will no joke get out of hand and you’ll find more and more kids ODing on shit inside and outside the clubs.

I was at Avalon when it got shut down. My coworker won tickets for some show to see the drummer of Wilco and Teddy something. Right before 10 p.m., the vocals were quiter and there seemed to be some kind of weird drum loop on. I looked around and there were a bunch of cops in their NYPD coats right in front of me. They started whistling to each other, and then at, exactly 10 p.m., the place was shut down.

It was a lame concert full of lame people, and seemingly needless to shut down so everyone asked why. They wouldn't say details at first and then some guy in a suit said that shutting down the place was good for the NYC public. Then he further went on to say that it was shut down for selling drugs. In which I further went on to ask where the drugs were. Pretty unexciting for what it was. There were like 50 cops there.

However, chick dancing in the white, obviously on something (a kindergarten teacher), managed to leave right before the cops came.

Instead of devoting time, money, and resources to protect the city from its REAL enemies, the NYPD squanders it all on shutting down clubs-- BORING CLUBS I might add. Seriously, when was Splash really fun? Back in 1993, since then, it became a lame, loud tourist trap sort of like an Atlantic city casino. I, however, digress. The real motive behind the crack down has nothing to do with underage drinking or sex acts on the premises and EVERYTHING to do with developers trying to run all Gay bars and clubs out of the very hot Chelsea area to make that real estate more acceptable for their "breeder" clientele. Face that facts, the developers want us all OUT--and they will stop at nothing to do so. Hell's kitchen is next.

Hmmmmm went to splash last night and it was open... Doesn't the NYPD have anything better to do with their time...

You guys gotta admit thought some of these clubs really ask for it when they have their crap out in the open or they dont check for ids at the door

as usual kelly's biggotism is a disgrace upon the City. sometimes i still feel like we're living under freedom and diversity’s greatest enemy – giuliani.

Drugs, sex, underage drinking at clubs?

That is a shock.

I'd be totally bumbed about missing The Orb, but I missed Sasha and Digweed last night. Anyone go to that?

fuckers!

I was goingt to seee the orb at avalon tonight. shit!

I wish they had shut down Blvd, what a hell hole

ahhhh, the slimelight wouldn't be as much fun if it weren't get shut down so often...

where are the jappy nyu girls going to go for a night of coke and dancing now that avalon got shut down?

And now, New York City is safe again.

Darn I missed all the fun!!

I was at SOL :-(