I agree with a lot of this - the last few parties I went to there were disproportionately full of NYU kids asking everyone for coke - not even DOING coke, just ASKING people for it - & the ability to go there & meet a bunch of weird, interesting people just for the night was missing. that was what i liked the most - not only the awesome music/dancing, but the characters with whom you could get lost in hour-long conversations & then maybe never see again or maybe become best friends with. NYU cokeheads aren't much for interesting conversation.

but the owners & the residents were all great people & it sucks that they may have to move out. i was there on Tuesday helping get all the stuff out of the warehouse & it will be a MAJOR job to get it all done. wishing Sari, Chris, & everyone else the best of luck...

i for one have never felt unsafe at rubulad and tho i agree that sometimes the crowd is not ideal or too much BUT i think the events i have attendend have been safe and i have enjoyed the feel and atmosphere far more condusive to good vibe than many of the "legal" clubs i have paid way more for, many of which are rife with illegalities and far worse crowds often imo. i wish all the best possible outcome in this challenging time.

my 2Yen, 師猿_ShiZaru.zoe

I am torn about this. I have been to many amazing, amazing parties at Rubulad (The Homosexuals getting body-painted while tearing it up onstage, the Hungry March Band doing their thing, Filastine and $mall Change and too many other amazing DJs to count) and I have friends that live there.

But at the same time, they seem to have gotten greedy and charge more and pack people in to the space. The parties really are too crowded (wall-to-wall people, waiting packed like sardines to try to get up or down stairs or to the roof). Between all the people packed in, the paper and cardboard art covering every surface, wooden stages, people smoking and throwing butts all over the place, and the questionable wiring, the place could really become a death trap.

So I think some safety review was in order. But it's a bummer that people got thrown out from their home in the process. I hope that Rubulad continues in some capacity, but that they pack fewer people into the space, just cut off entry at some point.

And the crowd has been increasingly annoying youngsters looking to score blow. Maybe Rubulad can regroup and get off the NYU radar...

In this age of corporate Bloomberg NYPD police state, Andy Warhol would have been evicted and shut down for operating the Factory. New York, the former creative center of the world, will never be the same. By the time this endless administration is done, it will be a sterile corporate lab for producing drones and douchebags.

AMEN!!!!

Place is weak - used to live around the corner from them - noisy, inconsiderate, and irresponsible - "artist lifestyle" - craptastic lie! - more like a bunch of hipster jerk offs trying to make money selling a lifestyle to random hangers-on from the bridge and tunnel crowd. Too focused on cool and unfocused on community and art. Good riddance. Their parties would end up on my roof with a bunch of smacked out pin heads stomping around at 5AM. Cops and fire dept shut them down all the time - and they never got the hint. Take your weak shit back to Frisco.

Being from "Frisco" I am nothing but honored by this statement.

These are not my words, I am quoting from this comment on L Magazine

"Chris and Sari from Rubulad here with clarification.

On the morning of Tuesday, July 20th, NYC fire marshals entered Rubulad and announced we were being "evicted." We were informed that representatives of the Department of Buildings were on their way to padlock the space and that we had an hour to remove our essential belongings.

There appears to be some element of harassment at work here as, at the close of business on the third day of this ongoing fiasco, the DOB has not arrived to padlock the premises and indeed we have spoken with them on the phone and they have assured us they have no intention of doing so.

However, the fire department has issued an "Order to Vacate" disallowing us from entering the ground floor of our space. The DOB represents that they can and will undo the Order, but again nothing further has happened and as of now the Order stands.

Meanwhile, our space is in total disarray as many sympathetic friends and arts groups heard our cry of distress and came to help move our belongings and supplies into storage lockers in (retrospectively unwarranted) anticipation of being padlocked.

It's unclear to us how much of this harassment is due to a) the furor over the new loft laws, b) the fact that the fire department finds our parties annoying or c) any actual or imagined safety issues.

What is clear is that while we have been ordered to vacate the ground floor, we have not been evicted in the sense of being irrevocably thrown out on the street."

I hate to see this place shut down just as much as the next person.

But there's a real reason why they get shut down. Life and fire safety is a big deal. Especially for places like this.

It's not the first time they've lost a space, they'll be back.

such a shame. some amazing talent has played there over the years and in such an intimate setting, and they get free reign to do what they want. one memory was seeing Mike Simonetti dj on new years eve 2009 for 7 hours. you never get to see a world class dj like that play in such an intimate room. one of the best dance parties i have ever been to.

I've been listening to EDM for the better part of 20 years at this point and I'm not hip to that guy.

Sucks when good venues get shut down though, all the condolences for that.

This town is kinda lame.

Mike Simonetti is a pretty prominent dj. do a google search. I am a fan of his record label as well called Italians Do It Better. if you follow his blog you can follow his movements. it seems every weekend the guy is djing in some part of the world. He recently played Room one of Fabric as well. He is no slouch. He also discovered Glass Candy. Its more of a disco and house music scene he is involved in.

World class DJ?

so sad, what a great institution. what fun parties