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It was fairly cold outside, and everyone was throwing their coats on the floors. Also, try not to buy tickets to a DJ concert through Ticketmaster (and if you did through Stub Hub and paid extra, you should kill yourself). Electronic Dance Music is meant to be danced to. Also, I have to note that the DJ booth was properly situated right next to the dance floor, as opposed to having the DJ on a stage so that people could “rock out” like a Guns and Roses concert (if you are doing that, you are doing it wrong, go home). I quickly realized that the pungency was a welcome side effect of people dancing and actually having a good time. Do not let the pungent body order dissuade you. NO COVER CHARGE!! That was refreshing, and really surprising cause it was a Friday night and the place was packed.The second thing that I noticed is that the place smelled like exactly like you would expect Bushwick to smell like if you have never been to Brooklyn (or Bushwick), enough said.

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From the outside, the place is completely unimpressive, and you can hardly find Bossa Nova except that the cab driver knew where it was and that there were people smoking outside. I assure you, you won’t be raped and robbed in Bushwick.In any event, we get to Bossa Nova at 1271 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn. We take a cab to Bossa Nova, and the whole time I can hear this other girl (who also randomly joined us) “oh my god, we are going to Bushwick, we are going to be raped and robbed”. Nevertheless, I struck up a conversation with a perfectly interesting couple – girlfriend is a diminutive Japanese girl with an English accent, guy is Swiss – both live on the Upper East side, work in finance, and confided to me that they heard of this club in Bushwick and that they spin really great house music and that they want to go with me. I never would have stumbled into Bossa Nova except for the fact that I was hanging out in Williamsburg in a typical Williamsburg bar filled with typical Williamsburg people posing like they are in a Gap commercial and trying really, really, hard to look trendy. But New York City while preying on the weak and insecure, like fortune, also favors the bold.Bossa Nova resides in Bushwick, Brooklyn, completely nondescriptly and undercover. It seems common sense, but a lot of people are just happy to wait for hours at the velvet rope wasting life, just to make the cut at the velvet rope and pay for a $25 drink, listen to terrible music and then go home – the “velvet rope” experience is New York City (the City that bites back) playing on your insecurities like you are a thirteen year old. Stop reading Yelp reviews and following a virtual herd of sheep. Go out and discover NYC by talking to people. My experience in discovering it provides ammunition to the argument that New York City is meant to be lived through the people who live there. If you do not like electronic dance music or do not like having fun, read no further.On a random Friday night, I discovered Bossa Nova completely by accident, and it reminds me of a New York City that, in large part, no longer exists. Let me get one other thing out there – Bossa Nova does not play Bossa Nova music, they play electronic dance music. If you are a Manhattanite that doesn’t venture to the outer boroughs, you probably also like having sex with your clothes on too.

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I LOVE SO MUCH AND HEARING THAT THE BUILDING ITS IN CAUGHT FIRE IS BREAKING MY HEART.Bossa Nova Civic Club is the proof that Manhattan is the skin of New York City, but the outer boroughs are definitely the heart and guts.

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This level of harm needs the full backing of the community to restore.” You can donate here. “Bossa has endured but survived an extreme amount of adversities, during a pandemic no less. “This space is a second home to a lot of us and has cultivated many careers, friendships and chosen families,” Murphy said.

Will be posting a gofundme soonĪ GoFundMe page has been launched by Kerrie-Ann Murphy – a.k.a Bearcat – to help restore the building, and to support club staff and tenants. we all know how meaningful this club has been for so many of us. I’m extremely heartbroken over this, this space really gave me everything. I just got off the phone with John in regards to bossa, he told me the fire was above bossa, bossa didn’t burn but the water damage and the damage to the whole building means it won’t be opening for a very long time and may not reopen at all but still figuring this out. A tenant in the building has been seriously injured and a tenant’s dog has died in the fire. Discwoman’s Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson has clarified that the building “won’t be opening for a very long time” due to water damage. In an Instagram post, the team behind the venue have said the building has sustained “significant damage”. The Brooklyn venue has closed its doors indefinitely.īossa Nova Civic Club is closing for a “notable amount of time” following a fire on the third floor of the building.