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Calling out around the world
Are you ready for a brand new beat
Summer's here and the time is right
For dancing in the streets
They're dancing in Chicago
Down in New Orleans
In New York City
All we need is music, sweet music
There'll be music everywhere
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Philadelphia, PA
Baltimore in DC now
Don't forget the motor city
On the…
While the Bloomberg administration is poised to rewrite the 77-year-old cabaret laws, nightclubs have already found ways to duck them and keep the dancing. Clubs have wired warning lights into D.J. booths, installed secret buttons to cut the music and sent employees to scout the streets for the squads and relay information over walkie-talkies.
Stop scratching on holidays
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
But recent visits to some clubs in the city suggest that subversion is much simpler. Often, there is only a D.J. spinning in a basement lounge or a jukebox spitting out songs, and patrons disregarding the laws, or unaware of them.
They'll be laughing and singing, music swinging
Dancing in the street
Philadelphia, PA
Baltimore in DC now
Don't forget the motor city
On the…
When Michael Cavadias was spinning records in New York's illegal dance clubs, he used a secret weapon to evade the city's cabaret laws: the Beatles.
The music would be pounding late at night when someone at the club spotted the cabaret-enforcement squads approaching, ready to cite the place or shut it down if patrons were discovered dancing. A message was raced to the D.J. booth, and Mr. Cavadias would cut the throbbing beat and substitute the ''Revolver'' album, causing puzzled dancers to halt midgrind.
''It's like Prohibition, living in speak-easies,'' said Mr. Cavadias, 30, who says the cabaret laws are crippling the city's dance culture.
While the Bloomberg administration is poised to rewrite the 77-year-old cabaret laws, nightclubs have already found ways to duck them and keep the dancing. Clubs have wired warning lights into D.J. booths, installed secret buttons to cut the music and sent employees to scout the streets for the squads and relay information over walkie-talkies.
Claude Solnik
Long Island Business News
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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
But recent visits to some clubs in the city suggest that subversion is much simpler. Often, there is only a D.J. spinning in a basement lounge or a jukebox spitting out songs, and patrons disregarding the laws, or unaware of them.
At the Bowery Bar on Fourth Street, music and dancing blended like rum and Coke on Wednesday night, when patrons were grooving in the dusky grenadine-colored light. Only a few danced at first, among them a woman who used her cellphone as a microphone, but as midnight approached, about 20 people had abandoned their tables for the dance floor.
''It's impossible to find a place to dance,'' lamented Charlotte Crivelli, 22, an Australian who moved to New York to study at Parsons School of Design. ''I just assumed it was like Sydney, where you could go out dancing.''
Records from the city's Department of Consumer Affairs show that the Bowery Bar is not one of the city's 332 licensed cabarets, so the evening's dancing was illegal under current laws. The city has shut down 11 businesses for cabaret law violations this year, compared with 20 closed from 1999 through 2002.
The cabaret laws have drawn fire since they were enacted in 1926 in reaction to popular racially mixed jazz clubs in Harlem, said Paul Chevigny, a New York University professor who has written a history of the laws. Critics say the laws do not address the more serious problems surrounding nightclubs, like noise, security or loitering.
Gretchen Dykstra, the consumer affairs commissioner, said the city was re-examining the laws for this very reason. But unless the laws change, members of the night life task force known as March -- for Multi-Agency Response to Community Hotspots -- will continue to crack down on unlicensed cabarets.
As he stood among the head-nodding onlookers surrounding the Bowery Bar's dance floor on Wednesday night, Omar Ortiz said he was baffled by the city's continued enforcement of the cabaret laws. Mr. Ortiz, a party promoter who is generous with his business cards and offers to put acquaintances on Omar O.'s Guest List, had organized the evening's gathering and said dancing was a critical ingredient.
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