[silence] Tonic Closes - Music - New York Times

[Ralph Lichtensteiger]

Tonic in NYC closes, it was a great place....
Avant-Garde Music Loses a Lower Manhattan Home (Tonic)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/31/arts/music/31toni.html? 
_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin

As gentrification has spread through the Lower East Side, Tonic has  
felt the pinch. Gleaming new apartment high-rises have gone up on  
either side of the club, and recent raids by the authorities closed  
its downstairs bar, cutting off a critical source of revenue.

“We just can’t make enough money there,” said Melissa Caruso-Scott,  
one of the owners. “We’re just looking to break even, and once it  
became clear that we couldn’t do that, it became obvious that we had  
to put an end to it.”

Rent was about $10,000 a month but the club has not been able to pay  
it for months, she said.

Tonic’s story is familiar. Last fall CBGB shut down after a  
longstanding dispute with its landlord, and tomorrow Sin-é, three  
blocks east of Tonic on Attorney Street and faced with similar real  
estate woes, will have its last concert. — Ben Sisario, nytimes.com

best,
ralph li
http://time4time.blogspot.com/
http://www.lichtensteiger.de/

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