Hey all. Apologies for the slowdown in regular posting, here, but late summer is always a crazed time for my office. We have an annual company-wide meeting in Nashville looming (you might remember I discussed last year's iteration to laborious effect) that I'm helping orchestrate, and that always shaves years off my life in the stress department. We'll get through it.
In any case, I just wanted to pass this along. Since it opened in 2018, I've been meaning to check out Coney Island Baby, the new live music venue Jesse Malin put in the former footprint of Hi-Fi/Brownie's over on Avenue A. In keeping with his campaign to keep the East Village punky and musically vibrant, it was a welcome maneuver. I was looking forward to checking it out.
But, in walking by the spot last week with my friend Miles, I couldn't help suspecting something was amiss. That's Coney Island Baby up top, circa June 2018, I believe. Below is what it looked like -- bereft of any semblance of signage -- last Wednesday night.
Has it changed hands already?
ADDENDUM: After posting this on Facebook, I heard from some informed parties that Coney Island Baby is no longer a live music venue, and the same owner "with different partners" are "remodeling it for the NYU crowd."
Sad.
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