Five Stabbed In Brawl At Sketchy Karaoke Club

Five people ended up in the hospital with stab wounds in an early-morning brawl at a "notorious" Bay Ridge karaoke club that residents say is a regular old den of sin.

Chun Lin was arrested outside of Crown KTV Club for the stabbings, which left one man in critical condition. Lin was also booked for drug possession. The dispute allegedly broke out in the club around 3:30 a.m. and "spilled out into the street." Michael Jones, deputy CEO of the State Liquor Authority, called the charges against Lin "serious" and said the stabbings could be used as part of efforts to revoke the club's liquor license and possibly have it shut down.

It's not the first time the club has been in hot water: according to the Brooklyn Paper, state cops raided the club last August and found "underage drinking and drugs rampant," but a judge threw out most of the charges. When the club opened in 2009, neighborhood residents cried foul, claiming the club, which called itself a "family-friendly restaurant," was a front for prostitution, and raising concerns over the riff-raff being so close to P.S. 69. The club was eventually allowed to open under a strict "12-point safety plan." Calls to the club for comment were not returned.

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By Jamie Feldmar in News on August 10, 2011 5:56 PM

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soothsayer

brooklyn paper is a useless myopic blog catering to yuppies.

soothsayer

white people afraid of mongoloids invading their (dead) neighborhood. cry prostitution! cry prostitution! maybe that will frighten all other whities into voting against this so-called oriental place of evil.

RammyH

Karaoke, hookers, drugs - sounds like a fun joint. Shame these stabby assholes had to ruin the party for everyone else.

hippies_hate_water

that's not in bay ridge. get it right, dumbass.

AzzTech

Some of the quotes in the linked pages are GREAT!!!!

Resident goes, “We don’t need another hooker establishment here."

Reporter writes, "For the uninitiated, karaoke is a beloved Asian tradition that typically consists of groups of friends gathered around a video screen, picking out instrumental versions of their favorite songs, and then encouraging one member of the group to belt out his own vocal track. Alcohol is considered vital to that process."

Oh yeah, PS 69...

HAHAHA!!!

Peanut_Butter

Well, actually, she was quoted as yelling "We don't need no hookers here!"

The purposeful, or maybe not so, double negative is required to get the true flavor of her outburst.

jibbly

PS 69 is in Staten Island. I think they meant PS 169 which is across the street from Sunset Park and not really that close to the club, about 20 blocks away.