Celebrities like to party at Crobar. Its cavernous spaces draw thousands on the weekends. But on Friday, police decided they’d had enough of the nightclub.
Officers ordered the Manhattan dance hall shut down at 10 p.m. Friday, along with another nearby club, Sol, saying the pair of hot spots have failed to control violence, drugs sales and other problems with patrons.
They will remain shut for at least five nights. A judge may decide Wednesday whether to allow them to reopen.
The closures were the latest in a string of crackdowns against New York City nightspots that have been a source of frequent complaints about drugs, fighting or noise.
The police have put a particularly fierce spotlight on Chelsea, a Manhattan neighborhood where noisy clubs in converted industrial spaces lie side by side with apartment buildings, sometimes filled with residents not too pleased with all the commotion.
A trendy nightspot called Spirit was temporarily shuttered in August after it was accused of looking the other way on drug use and underage drinking.
Police went to court seeking similar shutdown orders against clubs called Home and Stereo.
Both Crobar and Sol are in the neighborhood too, and were ramping up for another weekend when police arrived at 10 p.m. Friday. Read the full story at WNBC.




