Crobar NYC Opening Weekend

February 29, 2004 10:45 AM
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With all the new openings lately, one wonders what the newest and coolest “stuff” is gonna be up the sleeve of the next, best thing in clubland, but inside Crobar New York, Ken and Cal have created that ever ethereal wonderland for sinfully-playful pleasures.

And hitting the Grand Opening with the CoolJunkie creators Nick and Sarah, everything was in order for an evening of elegant indulgence.

Entering Crobar New York proved a perfectly poignant pleaser to put it politely!

Larry Tee and his Electroclash fraternity of flukes were heating up the house, but I have to tell you, the layout to this lavishly designed nightspot needs a quick noting, that’s for sure.

Big thanks have to be shouted out to Crobar Marketing madman Dirk, who hooked us CoolJunkie peeps up purrfectly.

Drinks were on the house! And howdy doody were dey, let me repeat that, I said straight JD, no penny to me! And that’s no joke indeed! Jeez oh whiz! Drinks and dames glided about this happy go lucky hotspot focused on having fun. But let’s back up and break it down a bit better.

Upon entrance (or at least the entrance Dirk walked us through), one encounters bamboo poles running from ceiling to floor and it feels as if one is weaving one’s way thru the Jungles of Crobar before stumbling upon a lighted white tube that is the entry to the main room.

A huge island bar is immediately to your right and a 20-foot tall rounded spiral staircase that leads to the 2nd floor and the VIP room is on your left.

And the huge dancefloor and stage area is directly in between the bar and the stairs. The DJ booth is elevated way above the dance floor and overlooks the entire club including the booths upstairs on the second floor.

The layout is a plethora of dynamic and cavernous gothy grabbings, creating a feeling of sexually sinister sweetness.

Half way up the grand stairs, there is another entrance that leads to the VIP area. Continuing the climb, and arriving at the balcony that overlooks the joint, there are levels and lounges and devious, shifty little cubbyholes that are filled full of bottle service babes and their big money bad boyz.

There are so many nooks and crannies to get dirty at and absorbed in at this party palace. It’s a cross between the Palladium and Club USA with a splash of the Tunnel but not nearly as big but big enough… and a hell of a lot nicer than the Tunnel!

This place is destined for greatness. It’s an amazing and awe inspiring locale.

Larry Tee certainly had everyone entertained, freaks that he and his posse be. And if the choice of having Larry Tee for the Grand Opening doesn’t speak enough about the future of this place, what the hell can I tell you?

Check it out for yourself. I can say that Dave Waxman, who used to be the resident DJ at Miami’s infamous ‘Liquid’ nightclub during its heyday, is the Musical Director of Crobar New York and also it’s Saturday night resident, at least it seems like that at the moment, who also runs the Ultra dance label that was voted Best Dance Label last year at the Dancestar Music Awards last year.

I know Dave to be a really awesome DJ so the music gotta be bumpin’ on Saturday nights.

Victor Calderone is also scheduled to begin a residency on Saturday nights shortly. He played Crobar NY afterhours for NYE from 4 AM til midday the next, but the night I was there it was Larry Tee’s Electroclash antics for the Grand Opening.

Seemingly staying quiet, yet filling her full to excess, Crobar New York has yet to begin to roar like she will over the next year or 2, so stay tuned and wait and see.

There’s more to this mystery, we just have to let it evolve naturally… :)