New York nightlife never stopped. It just moved underground

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I live in the East Village and sure you can see the occasional rooftop gathering or neighbor having a 5-10-person get-together, but except for some anecdotes about 'underground parties,' nightlife is quite shutdown except for outdoor (and minimal) indoor dining that closes early. No one I know has been to an 'underground party' and we are the types to go out to bars/dance places on weekends outside of Covid.

I have the same experience but am fairly certain the story sounds accurate.

I use to go to a fair amount of underground parties after last calls when I was younger, and there are definitely people out there. I’d bet places like Bushwick are a good bet to look with the big industrial spaces.

Even if it was 15 parties a weekend, times 500 people a party... it’d still only be 7,500 people in a city of 8 million (that’s if 400,000 truly left), I’m sure it’s concentrated primarily among ravers, and dancers, and clubbers.

I went to a few during late summer around Bushwick and East New York. They're happening regularly. One I went to was in a basement of an unfinished apartment building.

So you are one guy living somewhere in New York City, and reporting that based on your view from your window, you report that nightlife has indeed, for the most part stopped save the few small gatherings? okay..

Warning - the article has an NSFW picture right at the top.

Sure wish it would tho. I'd like to eat in a restaurant again sometime in the next decade.

What really is the purpose of a party? Is nightlife better than day life somehow?

Either the virus has never stopped

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