"leave The Beatrice to rest with other famed New York nightspots that have gone to the wayside: the Cotton Club of the 20s, the Stork Club of the 30s, the Copacabana of the 40s, Studio 54 in the 70s" um, did your GofaG contributor (unpaid intern?) just compare the Beatrice, a little subterranean shit hole full of children in rags and B listers in rehab to the Cotton Club? The Stork? Or Studio? Does she have any friggin idea of the history of those places where the creme de la creme of politics, power, society and entertainment all gathered dressed to the nines in soaring, elegant spaces?  

Oh are those, like, important clubs or something? Really? Was there bottle service? Tell me more!  

Oh are those, like, important clubs or something? Really? Was there bottle service? Tell me more! Look, WE don't take your job seriously but YOU should! Do a little research and reporting ferchrissakes. btw, whatever happened to Billy? He is missed.  

look, Chiara, sweetie, I'm sure you're a lovely young lady but seriously, should you be referencing things arbitrarily, even on GofaG? Realize some of us read the threads and don't just come here to decide on which parties to crash :)  

"No, really, enlighten me! I referenced those specific clubs completely arbitrarily, with no idea as to what they were. Thank god you were here to tell me!  

@ "enoughalready" -- your comments are always spot-on. Keep 'em coming. Beatrice was a terrific spot, I enjoyed it and miss it, but to compare it to legendary NY institutions is just off. The only NY spot of the past decade to achieve legendary well-deserved status is Bungalow in the early 2000's. What other place could you walk into and spot Sean Penn at one table, a starving artist in another, and a WASP banker all meshed together perfectly? Do the doormen of "the B" evoke the same nostalgic smiles and stories that the names Armin and Disco do? Amy was a tour de force -- the magic of Bungalow will, unfortunately, never be duplicated.  

It's time to heal. Chiara never implied that Beatrice was as interesting or groundbreaking as previous decade-defining clubs. But Beatrice Inn did emerge as the ur-club of the '00s, or at least the later '00s. You can't blame the place for opening during such a stale time in mainstream nightlife. Although the people behind BI are surely glad it did, since it would have been immediately forgotten had it competed with Studio, the Loft, Paradise Garage, Area, Danceteria, Limelight, Twilo etc. etc. etc. I guess the biggest statement to be made about Beatrice is that a very boring and thoroughly unoriginal place conned so many into believing it was something special.  

Jesus fucking christ, the beatrice again? Its been closed for fucking 2 years and it really wasn't that great while it was open- Guest of a Guest, Scott Solish, Black book and Steve Lewis- do you guys really have nothing better to write about than a hipster coke-hole thats been closed for years? Is NYC nightlife really that dead?  

OMG really??? Who cares! Get over it already. It's embarassing! Definitely had some good times there but it wasn't that awesome!  

Oh, and Lissie Trulie "DJing" (by DJing, I meant playing indie-rock off 2 iPods) was a joke - and Chiara, we're you even there? You sound like a fucking idiot in your article and comments  

Back in the day the corrupt imperialistic party smoked coke and wiggled their asses in public, today the corrupt imperialistic parties have been seduced into their pajamas by overwhelming corrupt pharmaceutical companies and the fraudulent AMA, better known as the american malpractice association.... go to sleep... no fire... no smoke... no laughter... no dance... only uber retarded big brother greed!!! Evolution Time, fuck a revolution!  

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The point is why would anyone continue to put Matt Abramcyk's name in the same sentence as Paul Sevigny? Everyones entitled to make a mistake. Didn't the city just issue Abramcyk another partial vacate order at Smith and Mills for operating in violation of the CO? Or was it egress? Isn't this Abramcyk just pulling a Rita Wilson?  

What a fucking joke this is, you people are such losers. Get over it. And what is so great about that girls poorly written article? I can just picture her reading it with a vain smile on her face thinking she's so great. Um, nobody cares. I want to hang out with my friends not be arbitraily decided-on by some door guy, thanks. How embarassing that you think it's embarassing to "not get in".  

@ hoodd*ck: Absolutely agree! Isn't this site written/led by people who are in their mid-20's and thus weren't of age and likely not even living in NY during the late 90's or early 2000's? Hence the ridiculous comments implying some relation between an only-OK hipster den and TRULY legendary spots. All these newcomers know is the bottle service era and so the coolest thing they can reference (IF they were even there) is the B. So we can't blame them -- it's hard to miss or understand something you were never a part of. Indeed, the writer here quotes a Beatrice regular's article in which that person concedes this was her "first time going out in New York City." I guess if you first moved to NY and had the B vs., for example, 27th Street (not when there was just Bungalow there but rather late 2005-2006 when it became overrun with cornball places)... then, yeah, you'd probably think the B was the coolest spot in the past decade. Think again.  

Chiara, this is a dope article. Mad props from a New Yorker in California.  

Max's Kansas City --Studio54--Michael Todd Room--Area--Nell's--The World--Mars--MK...each visit an event... ummm Beatrice Inn?....not so much  

Really that place was nothing and added nothing to NY night life. It was hole in the wall to hang. GOG need to be school on Nightlife 101. One thing for sure, there will never be a club like Life or Pangaea and many others that added value to NY night life. Seriously paul knows nothing about nightlife. He is trying that is good -- now can GOG stop kissing up his arse.!