CBGB is closing

[Keith <kaj22>]

I got this from CBGB's myspace blog.  

Keith
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CBGB is closing

We are closing.  Our landlord had neither the obligation nor the interest to give us a new lease when our old lease expired in August.  Since then, we have been fighting a losing battle, trying to buy time, against our eviction.

Unless a miracle were to happen, or the landlord were to have a change of heart, we knew we were gong to close.  We just didn't know when.  Now we do.

An agreement has been reached... not to give us a new lease, but to give us time to find a new location.

CBGB is officially closing by October 2006.  No postponements, no court dates, no appeals... that's it.

We are using this time to try and find a new location in New York.

The rumors of us trying to open in Las Vegas and/or elsewhere are true... but not what you may think.  We are staying in New York and we are looing for a space in downtown Manhattan.  We are not moving to Las Vegas or anywhere else.  We are, however, looking at opening up a sister club elsewhere... perhaps a CBGB West.  But the original CBGB, though it will have to move, will remain in New York.