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2 NYC Clubs Shut down.

Surrender
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Posted : Mar 9, 2004 09:09
Agony & 'Ecstasy' as Clubs Shut Down
(provided by nypost.com)

Police were party poopers at two popular West Side nightclubs last night, shuttering the hot spots after amassing evidence of rampant "designer drug" use and sales.

Narcotics cops shut down Club Exit on West 56th Street and the Sound Factory on West 46th Street after a 22-month undercover investigation. During the probe, undercover cops posing as clubgoers purchased a laundry list of drugs - mostly "ecstasy" - and witnessed numerous drug transactions and patron drug use. "Thanks to our detectives' hard work, we are sending a clear message to nightclub owners: If you allow illegal drugs to saturate your business and endanger your patrons, we'll shut you down," said Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.

Over the last three years, the clubs have been the scene of more than 200 drug-related arrests. So far, 11 people have been arrested for their involvement in selling and using drugs - but no club owner has been charged. State law could keep the clubs closed for up to a year - and cops say they could close more clubs soon

by MARIANNE GARVEY
NYPOST Staff Writer



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PRESS RELEASE NO. 2003-011

Friday, February 7, 2003

NEW YORK CITY POLICE COMMISSIONER RAYMOND W. KELLY AND SPECIAL NARCOTICS PROSECUTOR BRIDGET G. BRENNAN ANNOUNCE CLOSURE OF TWO NIGHTCLUBS IN MANHATTAN ON CHARGES OF ONGOING ILLEGAL "DESIGNER" DRUG ACTIVITIES.

New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly and Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget G. Brennan today announced the closure of two large nightclubs in Manhattan on charges of ongoing illegal drug
activities. The Sound Factory, at 616-620 West 46th Street, and Exit, at 610 West 56th Street, were closed on Friday, February 7, by order of the New York State Supreme Court. These closing orders are subject to
modification by the court.

"The New York City Police Department is combatting the illegal narcotics trade everywhere in our city – not only in the streets, but also in nightclubs," said Commissioner Kelly. "Our detectives did a terrific job throughout this investigation. Thanks to their hard work, we are sending a clear message to nightclub owners: If you allow illegal drugs to saturate your business and endanger your patrons, we'll shut you down."

Special Narcotics Prosecutor Brennan said: "Most of those we are prosecuting are college students who seemed to have no appreciation of the legal consequences to themselves or the harm that their distribution
of the drugs brought to their customers. The special treatment they received in the exclusive areas of the clubs enhanced their sense that they could conduct criminal business with impunity."

Both nightclubs have been the scene of numerous narcotics crimes, usually involving illegal "designer" drugs, such as Ecstasy (methylenedioxy methamphetamine or MDMA) and Special K (ketamine). In Exit, undercover detectives not only purchased drugs easily, they also observed many club patrons using them in the open. In other incidents, detectives purchased benign substances that the sellers claimed were illegal drugs, a common ploy used by narcotics dealers to defraud naive drug buyers.

The nightclub was previously the subject of a nuisance abatement action, in September 2000. After extensive negotiations with the club owners at that time, Exit was allowed to operate after club management
agreed to institute numerous anti-drug policies, including hiring an independent private-sector inspector general, or IPSIG, to monitor and report on club activities. The IPSIG agreement covered a nine-month
period, from October 2001 to June 2002.

At the Sound Factory, the larger nightclub with a capacity of more than 1,400 people, undercover detectives purchased Ecstasy, Special K, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana. During the investigation, drug use by patrons was clearly in the open. In fact, on Jan. 26, 2003, a 19-year-old woman overdosed and was removed from the club in an unconscious state. The Sound Factory was also temporarily closed by nuisance abatement order on April 30, 1999.

This investigation was initiated by the Narcotics Division of the New York City Police Department and the investigation was assisted by the office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor and the NYPD's Civil Enforcement Unit. The Civil Enforcement Unit secured nuisance abatement closing orders against 649 locations across the city in 2002, for charges including illegal narcotics, gambling, prostitution, auto crime,
stolen property, alcohol beverage control law, and trademark infringement offenses.

Eleven defendants are being prosecuted for drug sales inside the clubs by the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor.           "On the other hand, you have different fingers."
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Surrender
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Posted : Mar 9, 2004 09:10
watch yourselves, i hope this doesnt trickle too hard on us.           "On the other hand, you have different fingers."
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pSyCH0acT|VE
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Posted : Mar 9, 2004 18:05
Ouch!
No matter what, this doesn't look good man ...
Just to think that a couple of weeks ago we experienced what was possibly a revolution in the NYC Trance scene in Club Exit ... And now this - what a shame ...
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Surrender
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Posted : Mar 9, 2004 19:15
oh, dont be mistaken, we are talking about 2 diffrent "Exits".

The one that hosted our Ecliptic-Trance party is in brooklyn and has nothing to do with the one that got shut down.

It's just something to keep in mind since reprecussions could be felt anywhere around...           "On the other hand, you have different fingers."
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pSyCH0acT|VE
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Posted : Mar 9, 2004 19:18
hehe

you see what a good party does to you ?
I totally forgot it took place in Brooklyn
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Sahil
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Posted : Mar 9, 2004 20:49
Dammnn this is Bad news . Beware guys and go safe!
future funk
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Posted : Mar 9, 2004 22:53
bad news ...
be carefull people..
may the force be with you
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seb@Mandala
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Posted : Mar 9, 2004 23:52
weird ... I don't get it. They closed the clubs because people were selling and buying drugs ??? Why didn't they arrest the dealers, especially as they say club owner were not implicated. Is that legal ?
DiMiTry
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Posted : Mar 10, 2004 00:53
From the Times... seems these ppl were totally irresponsible. :[

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Mr. Kelley said the club operated what amounted to a makeshift intensive care unit, a room known as crack alley, where bouncers tried to revive clubgoers who had overdosed, to avoid calling 911.

Two people have suffered fatal overdoses at the club since 2000, Mr. Kelley said. He would not release their names.

"Sound Factory drew many customers who came to the club because they perceived that they would be readily able to obtain illegal drugs there," said a five-count federal indictment of the club's owner, Richard Grant; its director of security, Ronald Coffiel; and Randell Rogiers, who also worked in security. "Patrons often became so intoxicated on narcotics that they simply collapsed while dancing."

On one occasion, the indictment said, police officers intercepted two bouncers dropping an overdosing patron near a Dumpster.

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This is pretty bad, even for a nightclub, imo.. I think it's a recurring thing in NY, though - remember Studio 54, Limelight, etc. They just got too big for their own chops. greeeeed.
green nun
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Posted : Mar 10, 2004 02:12
Sorry to hear about these closures and sorry to hear that people aren't more responsible and aware of their "usage".. really sad

Yet another reason to get involved with www.emdef.com (Electronic Music Defense Fund)



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seb@Mandala
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Posted : Mar 10, 2004 10:49
Wow ... now I understand. Pretty crazy nightlife !!! I though things were pretty out of hand in Montreal, I see it's even worst over there.
Localsky
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Posted : Mar 11, 2004 04:28
It is probably a good thing Sound Factory got shut down. It really was a drug haven. Not that I am against drug use – just that people would not only use drugs there but seriously abuse them there. I think Sound Factory just gave electronic music a bad reputation. Good riddance. Too bad about Exit though.
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droozi
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Posted : Mar 11, 2004 15:33
Both the clubs are hell holes IMO. Its a bunch of kids popping pills as though they were drinking beer in a Frat party .... tsk tsk .... Me for one - I am glad those places shutdown. Such irresponsibility by club owners should be rewarded with a failure to make money at the cost of lives destroyed. I say good riddance - but I also agree with Surrender when he says that we may end up feeling the reprecussions of this. I hope it doesnt. I know the Bombay police found out about this site and ended up busting alot parties that were posted here - maybe we should be a bit careful too.
ayahuasca


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Posted : Mar 11, 2004 18:11
Cops!!! They tend to be the same all over the world... "MUST BUST DRUGS", they don't care abit about the music nor the ppl that are there and not using drugs...           LIFE!!! A sexual transferable disease with 100% mortality!!!
Cyzum
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Posted : Mar 11, 2004 18:20
I think that news is from last year.

The date on the press release says 2003.
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