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The City Council's Public Safety Committee is discussing a number of new proposals to crack down on nightlife problems. The NY Sun reports that one of them would allow the city to shut down businesses like shops and bar "if more than one person is killed within a year." Another would allow the city to shut down fake ID businesses - including their legal fronts.

As if bottle service nightclubs wasn't fancy enough: amNY reports that City Councilwoman Melinda Katz is proposes that nightclubs should have waiters pour drinks for those with bottle service at nightclubs. Katz says this would be a way to keep people from drinking too much and underage drinking. Hmm, what about drink stealing? Or people buying drinks for others? And restaurants won't have to worry - this proposal would only affect nightclubs.

If you're planning on going to a club for New Year's, you might want to go to clubs without charges against them. According to the Post, the State Liquor Authority is cracking down on city clubs that have charges pending and prohibiting them to stay open late. More than 40 clubs may be affected. Owners are upset to have the news dropped on them so late, since many clubs have been planning New Year's parties for a while - and the SLA even admits that they didn't notify the clubs that the policy would actually be enforced this year. On the other hand, it is a policy, so how much crying can operators do?

- A club promoter said that ID scanning may lead to longer waits and fights outside clubs, not to mention that fake ID makers will just make fake IDs betterOver the weekend, the police continued their "raids" of Chelsea nightclubs, arresting 11 people. It's unclear when the NYPD will stop, but as long as clublife is hopping, they'll be stopping by.