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Law
Enforcement:
NYPD
Shuts
Down
Chelsea
Clubs
Over
Drug
Violations
4/7/06
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/430/chelsea.shtml
The New York City Police
Department put a big dent in Manhattan's Chelsea club scene last Friday
night as hundreds of officers swarmed into seven clubs and shut them down
because of alleged drug law violations. Stunned revelers were herded
into the streets as police padlocked doors and put up orange warning tape.
In a press release, the NYPD said a nine-month investigation resulted in
numerous drug sales to undercover officers inside the clubs popular with
the city's "club kids."
The NYPD's Narcotic Division,
Quality Assurance Unit and the Manhattan South Vice Enforcement Unit shuttered
the following West Side clubs: Avalon at 40 W. 20th St., Spirit at 530
W. 27th St., Splash at 50 W. 17th St., View at 230 Eighth Ave. and Club
Deep at 16 W. 22nd St. Two other clubs, Club Speed at 20 W. 39th
St. and Steel Gym at 146 W. 23rd St., were hit with restraining orders
that allow them to stay open, but they must refrain from illegal activity.
Police reported that they
purchased marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine, and heroin inside the clubs on various
occasions. They also reported witnessing drug use, alcohol sales
to minors, and prostitution inside the clubs.
The city used its nuisance
abatement law, widely known as the "crack house law," to shut down the
clubs. It is used to target properties with persistent criminal activity.
Ironically, one of the clubs,
Avalon, is located in an old church that formerly housed the Limelight,
a club notorious for similar activity. In operation between 1983
and 2002, the Limelight was shut down on three occasions between 1994 and
1996 by state and federal authorities who accused its owners of turning
it into "a drug bazaar."
And before that was disco,
cocaine, and Club 54. The more some things change, the more they
stay the same.
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