Vinyl

6 Hubert St at Hudson St (212-343-1379)


Subway: A, C, E to Canal St; 1, 9 to Franklin St. Hours vary with event.





This space has housed many clubs of note, including the legendary art-disco Area in the mid-'80s and the not-quite-as-legendary early-'90s underground dance club Shelter. Vinyl still features Timmy Regisford (the main man at Shelter and a sometime DJ at Area) on Saturdays, who spins Paradise Garage retreads and current R&B-flavored house (what the English call 'garage') for a devoted crowd. Fridays alternate between Goa trance parties and biweekly stints by the brilliant Danny Tenaglia. Tenaglia is an extremely highly regarded spinner who grew up in the Garage and over the course of a ten-hour set spins everything from deep vocal house and Garage disco classics to hard but funky techno. Sunday afternoon's Body & Soul tea dance is probably the trendiest club in the world at the moment. Revered DJ/producer/remixer François K. (who actually filled in for Larry Levan at the Garage), along with Joe Claussell and veteran New York jock Danny Krivit, spin soulful house and Garage classics. It's similar to Shelter musically and conceptually, though the DJs' selections are more interesting. Ironically, Vinyl unintentionally became a bit like the alcohol-free Garage when the club's liquor license was revoked in 1997.