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On Monday, Nov 24, 2003, at 17:11 America/New_York, Auriea wrote:

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dance with me then

Decades Old Cabaret Law Faces Repeal

By MICHAEL COOPER

 Published: November 20, 2003

come on integer, let's dance!


The age-old battle between the New York of nightclubbing revelers and the 
New York of sleep-deprived neighbors entered a new phase yesterday when the 
Bloomberg administration said it would move to repeal a Jazz Age law that 
prohibits dancing in bars and nightclubs that do not hold special licenses.


g!pz! g!rl!ez

are the best dancers ;)

so come on dance!
like we used to

 Declaring her intention of putting "the dance police" out of business, 
Gretchen Dykstra, the commissioner of the city's Department of Consumer 
Affairs, called for scrapping the old cabaret licenses. In their place, she 
said, the city should issue new "nightlife licenses" that would allow it to 
regulate the unwanted side effects of nightlife that people really care 
about: noise, disorderly crowds and filthy sidewalks.


i know you're busy with your lawsuits and your ferraris and your prada but i 
knou you still know how to shake it!


 It is the  administration's attempt to balance the needs of those who boast 
that New York is a city that never sleeps, and those who complain about it.

one hand here
the other hand...
	there and then a bit of music http://entropy8.com/live/
iLikeTheSunrise.mp3
let ur hips sway............

cheek2cheek in your ear i whisper:
pop.tarts zijn niet zo lekker integer
je weet dat wel

then we say it, almost simultaneously...


 The cabaret law was Mayor Jimmy Walker's attempt at that balance in 1926. A 
city report at the time noted that the law's opponents  said that "when 
strangers came to New York, they wanted to `run wild.' " The report 
concluded that "there has been altogether too much running wild in some of 
these nightclubs."


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 The law now requires bars and nightclubs to have a cabaret license, in 
addition to a liquor license, if their patrons are to dance legally. 
Businesses say the licenses are not easy to come by.












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 Over the years, the law has been enforced heavily at some points and 
ignored at others.












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 It became an issue during the Giuliani administration, when the city began 
using the law as a weapon in its broader crackdown on quality-of-life 
crimes.












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 Few tears will be shed for the cabaret law if the City Council agrees to 
repeal it.















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 Stories abound of nightclubs that have switched at a moment's notice from 
dance music to country or (sorry, Beatles fans) "Eleanor Rigby" to get their 
patrons to stop gyrating when inspectors arrived. Some disgruntled night 
owls said New York City was losing its groove and turning into a real-life 
version of the small town that banned dancing in "Footloose," the Kevin 
Bacon movie musical.  Other revelers were moved to action: they held a 
"Million Mambo March" to protest the law.

! do not dansz u!th emplo!eez.

me neither
are you always this wound up?
apparently its been a loong time since someone has asked you to dance

don't be shy

 Ms. Dykstra announced the proposal to change the law at the Knitting 
Factory, a downtown nightclub that does not have a cabaret license.

! do not dansz u!th emplo!eez.

me neither
are you always this wound up?
apparently its been a loong time since someone has asked you to dance

don't be shy

 "They have to expend resources and energy telling people not to dance," she 
said. "They don't have any community problems, they don't have violations. 
But people can't shake their booties when they come to the Knitting Factory. 
And that strikes us as a little odd."

! do not dansz u!th emplo!eez.

me neither
are you always this wound up?
apparently its been a loong time since someone has asked you to dance

don't be shy

 In overhauling the nightlife laws, the  administration is hoping to win 
back the good will of owners and patrons of bars and clubs, some of whom are 
annoyed by the city's smoking ban. But while the proposed repeal of the 
dancing ban was greeted ecstatically by some bar owners, other industry 
representatives expressed concerns about the licensing system that would 
replace it.

! do not dansz u!th emplo!eez.

me neither
are you always this wound up?
apparently its been a loong time since someone has asked you to dance

don't be shy

 The proposal would require clubs to get nightlife licenses if they meet 
three criteria: they want to be louder than 90 decibels on a continuing 
basis, they remain open after 1 a.m., and they have a capacity of more than 
75 in residential areas or more than 200 in commercial areas.

! do not dansz u!th emplo!eez.

me neither
are you always this wound up?
apparently its been a loong time since someone has asked you to dance

don't be shy

 Each bar or club would have to get a professional sound engineer to certify 
that it has enough soundproofing to comply with the city's noise code. 
(Ninety decibels,  officials said, is louder than a dog barking and quieter 
than a plane taking off.) And the city would be allowed to revoke the 
license of any club that is repeatedly caught selling liquor to minors or 
without a liquor license, or operating without sprinklers, exit signs or 
emergency lights, or that is the scene of crimes including assault and rape.














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 Christopher Policano, a spokesman for the City Council, said the Council 
would study the proposed law when it received it.














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 Robert Bookman, a lawyer for the New York Nightlife Association, a trade 
organization, applauded the city for moving to repeal the cabaret law, but 
he said he would rather see the city step up its enforcement of existing 
laws. The association wants a law allowing off-duty police officers to 
provide security at bars and clubs.














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 To some, the change cannot happen fast enough. At Plant Bar, on Third 
Street between Avenues B and C, the owner, Dominique Keegan, thought he had 
a system in place to keep surreptitious dancers safe. The bouncer was 
supposed to flip a switch if it looked as if inspectors were on their way, 
turning on a blue light telling the disc jockey to turn off the dance music 
and put on "Kid A," a less-than-boppy Radiohead album.









you dance good when you try.





love,
Auriea.

 But the plan fell through in March, when a disc jockey did not know the 
code and the bar was cited for "16 people dancing." After a second ticket, 
it was padlocked. To reopen, Mr. Keegan had to discourage dancing, do away 
with the disc jockeys and put in a jukebox. Since then, he said, business 
has been way off. Under the proposed law, he would not need a nightlife 
license because his bar holds fewer than 75 people.

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 The news that dancing could soon be legal, he said, is "music to my ears, 
if you'll forgive the pun."



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