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Chris Dickson
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Username: Ironman
Post Number: 793
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 2:48 pm: |     |
SAVE THE BOTTOM LINE
The Bottom Line -- the famed Greenwich Village club where Springsteen played a legendary run in 1975, and where he debuted with the core 1992-93 band -- is in trouble. The club's owners write: "Our business, along with so many other small businesses, has not been able to recover since the tragedy of September 11th. Attendance to shows has declined. In addition, our customers are feeling economic stress, our bills have been multiplying, and we have found ourselves substantially behind in our rent. Our landlord, New York University, has started eviction proceedings." A lawyer for the club told the New York Times, ""There's basically 10 days or so for a reprieve. There's a very real possibility that this may not be salvageable."
Visit the Bottom Line website for more information and what you can do to help.
Read "Village Club May Face Swan Song Over Rent" in the New York Times.
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davidbuckley
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Username: Davidbuckley
Post Number: 128
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, September 19, 2003 - 4:48 pm: | |
A potential cultural tragedy that must be averted!!
I will go to the site to see what I can do to help.
Be well and rock on, all!
David Buckley |
jet
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Username: Jet
Post Number: 257
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 2:30 pm: | |
Why does any place that Springsteen played somehow feel that it has a right to solicit donations for the ongoing operation of a "FOR PROFIT" entity . The Bottom Line is that "The Bottom Line " stopped being relevant long before 9/11/91 never mind 9/11/01. Maybe they can get Dominic Santana (is that really his given name?)to teach them a thing or two about begging & groveling. |
Ukealalio
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Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 50
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 4:06 pm: | |
The Bottom Line is anyone who is interested in helping the club, can make up their own minds about sending in a donation. I happen to support this, as The BL is one of the only clubs in New York where you can see quality acts that are not mega stars and can fill up MSG or Giants Stadium.
I'm sorry you don't feel the club is relevant but that's your opinion and you have the right not to support it. In my opinion, the club is more relevant then ever with (major) record companies abandoning any act that doesn't go platinum immediately and signing image-based artists , rather then artists with talent, creativity and integrity.
You can watch your Madonna's and Brittney Spear's at a stadium lip synching to their greatest hit's, I'll take a "real" artist performing at the Bottom Line anyday. |
NCJanow
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 966
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 12:17 pm: | |
Legendary N.Y. nightclub gets reprieve
Thursday, September 25, 2003 Posted: 10:56 AM EDT (The Bottom Line nightclub, in danger of going out of business, received a loan to keep going for another four weeks.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Bottom Line is getting an encore -- although it may only be temporary.
The legendary nightclub, in danger of extinction after falling $185,000 behind in its rent, received a four-week reprieve Wednesday in a last-minute deal cut in a courthouse hallway.
"I feel a lot better than I felt at the beginning of June," said club co-owner Allan Pepper, who opened the New York institution in February 1973. "I'm grateful and relieved."
In June, Pepper and partner Stanley Snadowsky were facing eviction by landlord New York University after falling behind 17 months in rent. But attorneys for the club and NYU agreed to postpone eviction proceedings with an eye on signing a new lease.
"We have four weeks," said Mark Alonso, a lawyer for the nightclub. "It's that simple. We're trusting that NYU is looking forward to negotiating in good faith."
Under a temporary agreement, satellite radio network Sirius will post $185,000 in escrow by September 30 to cover the debt in the event a new lease is reached.
If the two sides can't agree, the money will be returned to Sirius. Currently, the nightclub operates on a month-to-month lease.
Over three decades, the Bottom Line has hosted performers ranging from Bruce Springsteen to Miles Davis in its intimate 400-seat room.
Reports of its possible demise prompted an outpouring of support.
Pepper, who attended the hearing in Manhattan Civil Court clutching a binder filled with supporters' e-mails, walked out of the courtroom with his wife.
"We all hope it's resolved in a way that everybody wants," he said.
Lawyers for the university came to court ready to go to trial but opted for further negotiation after a conversation with Bottom Line officials during a recess, NYU spokesman John Beckman said.
"New York University has said all along that it was not looking to see the Bottom Line closed," Beckman said. "But it should be understood that our patience is pretty much at an end, and we urge the Bottom Line to use the extension constructively."
Lawyers for both sides spent the morning and part of the afternoon negotiating the deal outside the courtroom, occasionally with the judge's help.
NCJ aka LibraryLady
BTW..I'm on my coffee/lunch break
or not working at the Library. |
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