It looks like one of the best after hours parties in Brooklyn, "The Shank" has seen better days. The party which runs all hours of the night in a large studio on Bayard Street has been filled with drug dealers and thugs who have overran the place, and in the process, drove away the party'ers who made the party a party in the first place.
From the article: Fueled by word-of-mouth, it didn’t take long for the club to blow up. The sprawling 8,000 square feet of usable studio space was located on Bayard Street in Williamsburg. On any given night, one might encounter 9-to-5ers mingling with such cool-kid-approved figures as Spank Rock, members of The Deathset and DJs and bartenders just getting off work. According to one insider, it was a healthy mix of rock-band dudes and vintage-store employees.
Upon first visiting The Shank in early January, local resident Debbie Allen arrived at 3 a.m. for an after-hours party and was impressed. “The first time I went, I loved it,” she recalled. “The DJ was awesome, and there was room to move around. There were cute boys, people were hooking up. It was just a lot of fun, dancing and hanging out with friends.” She described how the word spread: “It seemed like every time, more and more people knew about it, but it was mainly just people who lived in the neighborhood.” The first few nights were promoted only a few hours beforehand in nearby bars like Enid’s and The Royal Oak by the studio’s residents and neighborhood cognoscenti.
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