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Two years ago the famed Saturday Night Fever dance floor was sold at auction for $188,000 when the Brooklyn club where the movie was filmed, Odyssey 2001 (later called Spectrum), was closed. Just yesterday the legendary movie turned 30 and amNewYork got nostalgic looking back at the Bay Ridge kid, Tony Manero, who sought refuge on that dance floor.

Thirty years ago this weekend, a tough young kid from Bay Ridge strutted across America's movie screens and struck his finger in the air to announce a new moment in the country's culture. Disco had been bubbling in the underground for a few years before the film came out, opening the sub-culture to a mass audience.

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One of the most illustrious floors in all of movie history is going to be auctioned: The psychedelic disco floor from Saturday Night Fever has had offers of more than $80,000, according to the Daily News. As millions of people have vamped to Tony Manero's moves (one hand pointing to the sky, one pointing to the ground, hip out), they imagined themselves dancing in a Brooklyn nightclub. The nightclub, 2001 Space Odyssey, closed years ago but the owner saved the floor. The auction will be on eBay on April 1, and Gothamist hopes that some savvy NYC nightclub owner buys it for a club here, so everyone, especially the B-and-T crowd, can join in the fun.

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Some New Jerseyans say, "Feh" and tell the Times, "It's going to cut down on some of this traffic, that's what it's going to do." Ah, the philosophy of people from half of Gothamist's native land. New Jersey, though, is trying to fight to keep the "Nets" name, in the hopes NJ will be able to get another team to use it. As if the "Nets" is that great to begin with and as if the NBA isn't overexpanded already. NJ Sports and Entertainment Authority George Zoffinger says, "Ratner should name the team after himself. I think the Brooklyn Rats has a nice ring to it." When the Times asked some Brooklynites what the nickname should be, one suggested, "Iconoclasts."