Sometimes dead is better. 

Please don't reopen in Brooklyn.

Bout Time!!!!! When the city offered to find CB's a place, they should of just transferred back then. Now how much will their rent be and how much will a show cost to get in? $25  to $30 bucks?

Are they going to import vomit and pee from the outer boroughs?

It will be artisanal vomit and pee.

I'm in agreement with the posters who lined out how that particular LES scene is dead and done with.  C.B.G.B.'s was as much about the hang at the time as it was about the music and there was a grittiness and dirt to it that was palpable.  I had only gone to Coney Island High once or twice so hardly missed it when it closed but I did love Continental for some bands.  The closure of the original C.B.'s closed a chapter of LES history and now there are coffee houses, high end stores and public gardens in a stone's throw distance.  Let the name live forever in music history for all its good and bad points.  I've not been to Continental since it became a Sport's Bar and I guess was ruined.  Too bad for bands of the level that really needed that space to play in.  NYC sure is different in terms of the music scene. 

I wish the Ramones weren't dead.

It just wasn't CBGB. There were a lot of places nearby featuring live music, until rents priced out local musicians. When that happened live music venues like Coney Island High and Continental could not be sure if the booked band would show up on time, if at all.
That scene is dead and should now rest in peace.

Coney Island High was destined for failure. It was on an up and coming block and the police would hassle people as soon as the shows let out.
The Continental, on the other hand, could have grabbed all the clientele from CBGB and CIH, Turned it something great Instead Trigger turned it into a crappy sports bar..They once had some great shows there..Now I wouldn't go in there to use the bathroom..

CBGB was a place where I spent most of my youth. I started going there in 1986. I had Just turned 16 and Karen (Hillys then wife) turned me down at the door. Of course this didn't stop me from going there hundreds of other times.
Over the years I must have seen 100 shows there. I even got to play there a bunch of times. And anyone who has played there knew that they had the best sound in the city.
CBGB was more than a place that had shows..
CBGB died with Hilly
 Let's leave it that way

They will never be able to recreate that legendary bathroom though....

good lord i hope not.  

Not without samples of at least three of my body fluids anyway....

I've been holding my bladder for a long time in hopes that it would re-open...can't wait to christen the place.

The new CBGB's will feature bands from Portlandia......or Brokelandia.

CB's was as much about the edgy, run-down, gritty and menacing streets immediately around it. 

Unless you can invent a time machine, CB's is gone for good.

CBGB's was an era, not a place. Frankly, the physical place was the least relevant part. Schmucks will show up to this new one though, what with the masses being the asses that they are. 

Its like Pet Sematary.  Some things are just better left dead.

Perfect analogy - Especially due to the fact that the Ramones did the song Pet Semetary

New sign will read:

CBGB'S!!!
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