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Manhattan Club Raided, Violence at Queens Party

2007_08_mrblack.jpgMr. Black, a club at 643 Broadway (near Bleecker) was raided early yesterday morning. Thirty-two people were arrested, including 17 employees, on charges ranging from suspicion of drug possession and suspicion of selling drugs. Apparently many bags of cocaine and ecstasy were found.

DJs Are Not Rockstars have a weekly gig at the club. Paper magazine has called the club a "downtown, gay hotspot." And the MySpace page for Mr. Black says it's "where anyone and everyone is welcome, where anything and everything goes, where the atmosphere is charged, the crowd unpretentious, and the music unexpected."

And seven people were wounded (6 were shot, 1 was stabbed) at a "lingerie party" in Jamaica, Queens. Revelers in their late teens and early 20s had gathered at the old Church of Christ on Rockaway Boulevard when a "screaming match escalated into violence."

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  • Reflect

    Picking on the gays agian.

  • guest

    WAR IS PEACE

    FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

    IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

    DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH!!!

  • guest

    Rule #1: don't deal or do coke in plain sight. That is what

    bathrooms are for, you *idiots*!

  • westernqueensland

    In the first case, I'm just glad they never caught me in the 70s or 80s.

    In the second case (personal repression surrounding lingerie aside)I am so sad that violence happens in so many innocuous situations here in Queens.

  • guest

    There's are no such charges as "suspicion of drug possession" or "suspicion of drug dealing".

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