Well, he's threatening to take the club to Vegas.
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'AIN'T NO . . . CBGB'?
September 3, 2005 -- The potential demise of fabled nightclub CBGB proves that if there are 8 million stories in the Naked City, there may be 8 million ironies too.
The Bowery establishment's lease expired at midnight Wednesday.
The club and its landlord are in a battle over a $19,000 monthly rent that could double to $41,000.
Longtime club owner Hilly Kristal vows a protracted legal fight over the space.
Responding to Kristal's not-at-all-thinly veiled threat to move the club to Las Vegas if no deal is struck, Mayor Bloomberg has offered to mediate the lease dispute — or find the club new digs elsewhere: "It's part of our culture, it brings a lot of business here and it doesn't belong anywhere else."...
Though I highly doubt that threat is real. That would be so an un-CBGB thing to do! Plus seeing as how Studio 54 in Vegas is about the dullest club i've ever visited, I think something definately gets lost in the commercizlization/Vegas'ing of musical landmarks.
I however also have mixed feelings about moving it somewhere else in New York. Sure, it sounds like a reasonable compromise, but that'd be like saying, 'let's move Sun Studios to another part of Memphis'.. It's the history of the place that is paramount, not the name.
