New York City isn't dead after all

According to this NYTimes article, even though CBGB closed, all sorts of new clubs are popping up.

CBGB - CMJ Music Marathon - Cake Shop - Studio B - Union Hall - New York Times: "... in the next few months, at least five major spaces are set to open, giving the city’s rock infrastructure its most substantial expansion in years.

“'Right now there’s a renaissance of venues in New York,' said Adam Shore, the manager of Vice Records in Brooklyn and a veteran club trawler. 'This is a great time. It’s going to be pretty cutthroat for promoters, but it’s great for bands and agents and fans.'...

”There are no reliable statistics about the flux of the quantity of clubs over the years, but in general the ashes-to-ashes principle applies: when one closes, another opens. The biggest growth area is Brooklyn, which had few major clubs before Northsix planted its stake. Since then it has developed into a world that almost rivals Manhattan, with enough spaces — from tiny rooms like Pete’s Candy Store and Barbès to roomier places like Southpaw and Galapagos Art Space — to accommodate a range of acts and audiences.

"One promoter, Todd Patrick, a k a Todd P., has built a devoted underground following by mostly avoiding the clubs and putting on must-see shows in galleries, warehouses and vacant lots.

“'People always move to New York and say, "I wish I had been there for something like CB’s was in 1976, or the Factory in ’66, or whatever,"' he said. 'I hope that what I do is a part of something like that as well — that the people and the places I work with now make a scene that people will look back on in 20 years and wish they had been part of.'”

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