As you may know by now, we're pretty excited about shuffleboard around here, and soon after we declared our love of the game, we were given the scoop that a genuine shuffleboard club would be opening in Brooklyn next year. At the time we withheld some information about the club until details got firmed up (and also because we didn't want our heart rate to get too high) but now we can pass along a whole lot more, including the name of your new favorite club: The Royal Palms. And here is more exclusive info direct from co-founder Jonathan Schnapp: more ›

A Bronx nightclub bouncer was fatally shot early this morning, allegedly by a patron who he had kicked out earlier. According to witnesses, the gunman was one of four men who were kicked out of the Pit Lounge on White Plains Road in Soundview by the 26-year-old bouncer after they got into a fight last night. “I said, ‘They’re gonna come back with a gun, I know it,' " Louie, a clubgoer who declined to give his last name, told the News. “And sure enough, they did.” more ›

The Kardashian sisters have taken over NYC (for their new reality show), and they're delivering on the drama. TMZ caught them in the midst of a kerfuffle last night at the club Juliet; they report: "Kim Kardashian got drenched by a drink and Khloe almost lost her big fat wedding ring last night ... after a jealous woman went nuts." Allegedly the jealous woman's boyfriend asked for a photo with Kim, which prompted her to toss a cocktail at the reality starlet. more ›

The upscale Meatpacking District club Tejune is already under fire after a 17-year-old fell to her death after partying at the club earlier in the night. Now, a Yonkers woman is putting a bigger spotlight on the club's lax security. Three weeks before Nicole John was at the club, Laurie Nagle, 31, claims she was the victim of an unprovoked attack by another woman in the club. The woman's weapon of choice? A shoe. more ›

In the city for the Caribbean Cup tournament, St. Lucia soccer player Isidore Phillip Tisson was shot after leaving a Crown Heights club, where he was celebrating his team's victory over St. Kitt's with his teammates. The 27-year-old center-forward left the club around 4:30 this morning with a woman and two men and stopped by a cafe on Utica Avenue. As Tisson was getting back in his car, a gunman shot him in the head. The bullet passed through his skull and hit the woman sitting next to him in the chest. more ›

A man was shot inside Quo nightclub earlier this morning. The Post reports, "The 29-year-old victim, Theodore Merchant, of 270 Clarkson Ave., was shot in the torso inside Club Quo at 511 W. 28th St. at 3:42 a.m., police sources said. He’s in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital. Cops have a 25-year-old Brooklyn man in custody but no charges have been filed." It's unclear whether there was a motive. Last year, after a stabbing on West 28th between 8th and 9th Avenues, neighbors said, "There's always something going on, always a problem, always police coming by, being called." more ›

Residents of some elite buildings on Central Park West are coming together to stop the development of what they believe will turn into an all-hours nightclub akin to whatever kind of club they're picturing that has them so damn terrified. Though project head Gregory Hunt says the Central Park West Cafe, at 25 Central Park West, "will be sophisticated and mellow," the West Side Independent reports that locals have a petition 400 signatures strong to keep him from getting a liquor license. more ›

As we mentioned in our newsletter, Studio 54 opened up on this date in 1977 (rumor has it Woody Allen was turned away on opening night!). It closed down by March 1986, but in less than 10 years packed in a lifetime of stories. Andy Warhol once said, "It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: 'In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes,'" and today LIFE sent over a visual recap of the storied club's time at the top. 33 years after opening night, do you think a club like this could exist in NYC today like it did back then? more ›

...Spoke too soon! First the city moved to shutdown M2 UltraLounge for being a "smokeasy," then it went through with it, then it made an arrangement to re-open it—and now it's shut down again. The NYPD showed up at midnight last night, just before their NFL draft party got underway (hosted by Deion Sanders!), and ejected 300 or so people inside. A thousand people lingered outside hoping for a miracle...to no avail. This time, it was shut down allegedly because of lax security. So much for "good faith agreement." more ›

Rapper/entrepreneur/club owner/Yankees fan Jay-Z, along with his business partner, is suing Red Sox star David Ortiz. In a lawsuit filed yesterday in Manhattan Federal Court, the two claimed Ortiz named his Santo Domingo nightclub after Jigga's 40/40 chain of clubs (which are located in NYC, Atlantic City and Vegas). MyFox5 reports that Ortiz's club, called Forty-Forty, is allegedly named after hitting 40 homers and stealing 40 bases in one season. The lawsuit states, "David Ortiz is fully aware of Plaintiff's Manhattan 40/40 club, since he had been a patron there on several occasions before he opened his Infringing Forty/Forty club." more ›

How many expensive bottles of champagne do you have to order before the M2 Ultra Lounge staff become suspicious? According to the NY Post, two "wanna-be players" rang up a $28,500 tab at the nightclub before the waitstaff wondered how they were going to pay for it. more ›

Though early reports indicated the windows of a Clinton Hill nightclub might have been shattered in a shooting, the real cause of the crime was strict enforcement of the city's smoking ban, the Local reports. According to an employee at Waverly Avenue's Loft 45, a "kid was smoking in the bathroom and the bouncer threw him out." Once outside, the smoker and his friends broke five of the venue's windows. The incident comes at a time when many New Yorkers apparently thought it was safe to start smoking in clubs again. more ›

What's your favorite bar bathroom in town? The website Asylum.com recently performed a vital service by profiling some of their favorite men's rooms, with an emphasis on classic urinals, like the grand 140-year-old marble jobs at Foley's Irish pub, where restaurant staffers often give tours of the bathroom. But what really caught our eye is the high-tech new urinal at City Winery, which features a motion-activated water wall framing a 50-inch plasma screen at waist level. more ›

Greenpoint's Club Exit has announced their closure after 15 years in business (via a sign on their door... and website). Owner Mariusz Kupiec told the Brooklyn Paper: “We’re just tired with the scene." That scene has become a rowdy one over the years, with regulars even admitting "they’ve come to expect a punch or two thrown by closing time every weekend." Recently those punches have, at times, even escalated into gunfire! Perhaps the next person to take over the space should turn it into a tea lounge or yoga studio. more ›

Six years after New York City enacted a smoking ban inside bars, restaurants and clubs, patrons of upscale nightclubs continue to light up, according to a Times investigation. Cigarettes are commonplace at venues like Goldbar, Avenue, and Griffin, the paper reports. "Everyone looks the other way," said Guest of a Guest writer Billy Gray, 25. "It's more of an illicit thrill now," he said. "Like when you were a teenager and snuck a beer in your parents' basement." more ›

Much like Halley's Comet, a playboy that spends as much money as mysterious Malaysian man Taek Jho Low only "comes around once in a lifetime," according to Manhattan nightclub owners. The city's club owners have been fighting to woo the Wharton Business School alum, who has spent tens of thousands of dollars purchasing more than 100 bottles of Cristal champagne in a single night, according to Page Six. Little is known about the 28-year-old other than his big spending habits, his address at the ritzy the Park Imperial, and his celebrity pals — and sources say he'd like to keep it that way. A friend, who described Low as a "dealmaker with interests in the Mideast and Asia in construction, oil and gas," told the paper: "He's not an arms dealer. And he doesn't want all this publicity." more ›

There is a geeky-looking rich guy from Malaysia who has developed quite the reputation for running up huge tabs at douchey NYC clubs, as well as flying Megan Fox to party with him "and his entourage" in Las Vegas, and sending 23 bottles of Cristal to Lindsay Lohan at 1OAK. Heads up gold diggers: his name is Taek Jho Low, and he's residing at the Park Imperial, where his profligacy is so extreme residents wish they had a rapper in the building instead. One neighbor tells the Post, "It used to be that when you saw the Cadillac Escalades outside, you knew Sean [Combs] was in town. Now it's this guy." more ›

The Beatrice Inn shut down earlier this year after neighbors had enough of the A-list crowd partying it up at all hours. As the same war is being waged by neighbors of the Jane Hotel, against their late night ballroom antics, word is that the Beatrice may reopen. more ›

Purgatorio, the new multi-level erotic haunted house from the people behind exclusive raunch den The Box, is open for business for just a few more days, disappearing permanently into oblivion after Halloween. We've already shown you the necrophilia promo video, but here's a closer look at some of what your $39.99 will get you. A couple weeks ago we were all set to attend the opening party hosted by Perez Hilton, but at the last minute we couldn't make it up to Times Square. Family emergency. NOT because we were scared... of just about everything in that last sentence. more ›

Not to be outdone by that measly $1 billion class action lawsuit filed against Greenhouse—the "eco-friendly" but allegedly black-unfriendly downtown nightclub—some other offended blacks have stepped up with their own $1.5 billion lawsuit! Greenhouse: the "big tobacco" of nightclubs. This new lawsuit is being filed today by Raqiyah Mays, a Kiss FM radio host, and three others who say that they were not let in "due to their race." Isn't it about time for Latinos, Hasidim, and Sikhs to get their piece of the Greenhouse bonanza? more ›

Chelsea's Bungalow 8, home to late night celebrity sightings, is shutting down operations. CityFile reports that the Amy Sacco-owned lounge has long been rumored to be closing, but now it's really happening. They shut down for "renovations" weeks ago, but allegedly have no plans to reopen... and their phone line has been disconnected. more ›

The West Soho nightclub Greenhouse has a notoriously tough door policy, and is renowned for excluding throngs of hopefuls from the club's bi-level douchetivities inside. So it's no shocker that two black women interpreted their rejection by the club's door bitch as racist. Kashan Robinson and Maria Sicard are suing Greenhouse; they say they were two of about 100 people who were denied entry to a Teri Woods book party because of their race. more ›

Necrophilia's so hot right now. We're all super-stoked for the city's best pervy haunted nightclub—brought to you from the people behind the pervy disturbing nightclub The Box—to open October 15th, so check out this arguably SFW video to get a taste of what awaits you within this "erotic nightmare fantasyland created especially for Halloween season." more ›

Malta: Okay, this unappreciated Williamsburg restaurant isn't new—it opened some six months ago—but this little gem hasn't gotten the attention it deserves, and seems to be struggling in the shadow of the neighborhood's newer cool kids, such as Brooklyn Star, Vutera, and Walter Foods. Part of that may also have to do with the rather uninspired interior design, but tucked away in the back is Malta's hidden strength: a serene backyard garden that's often shockingly deserted. You might think the emptiness portends lackluster food, but Malta, open for dinner daily and brunch on weekends, is high quality at reasonable prices. more ›

All he wanted to do was bring grinders and grinding together under one roof. But it seems that Anthony "Cousin Vinny" Agnello's inspired idea to turn a former Subway sandwich spot into a hybrid Gentleman's Sub Club was just too visionary for these litigious times, and now he's probably ruined. You'll recall that last summer Agnello sparked outrage from the local community for opening up the "all-nude private club 'Cousin Vinny's Little Secret'" in a disenfranchised Subway on East Tremont Avenue in the Bronx. The Subway fast food chain was also rubbed the wrong way, because Agnello was still using Subway brand wrappers and menus for the venture, which served sandwiches by day and lap dances by night. Now a federal magistrate has recommended that Agnello pay the fast-food giant's corporate parent $90,000, plus another $7,900 for its legal fees. Which leaves Agnello no choice but to make the entire payment in crumpled singles. more ›

The cursed Studio B, a constant nuisance to neighbors in the past, has been opening and closing since the day it opened! At least, it seems that way with the help of rampant rumors. Brooklyn Vegan reported on the latest from the Greenpoint club/rumor factory, saying "word is that Brooklyn mostly-dance club Studio B is really closing this time—by the end of July." Their website currently lists events through July 12th, and an upcoming 2 Live Crew show on July 25th is being moved from the venue. We've contacted Studio B for a statement but have not heard back yet; last time around they told us: "Studio B is not closed and will be open at least until the beginning of February for sure. Mid February the decision will be made to weather or not the club will keeps its doors open." Raise your hand if you care either way! more ›

You'd think over-charging for drinks (including water) for all these years would have given them a nice financial cushion...but allegedly Webster Hall is in debt and in danger of closing. DBTH reports that "the club is in serious arrears to the City, State and vendors, and may be on the verge of declaring bankruptcy." It's the usual story of overdue rent, bounced checks, back taxes, bills piling up and creditors knocking on the door. "They are looking for some kind of bail out from the state (for the taxes issues) and the landlord (apparently they would like their rent lowered by half until things "get better")." Guess their new Studio venture hasn't been bringing in the cash, but maybe the bridge & tunnel crowd that pack into the place on club nights can help bring in the $600K they need. Nightclub shenanigans aside, it would be a shame to see the place shutter, considering it's been open since the late 1800s and hosting music since the 1950s. more ›