The end of a business is rarely a death knell for an era.
After hosting Wild Time for more than four decades, the East Village veteran Pyramid Club has announced that – as a result of the ongoing coronavirus epidemic – it will not reopen.
Both Nirvana and the Red Hot Chili Peppers played their first NYC concert at the iconic venue, and were inspired by the engraved music and beauty within their walls, including Andy Warhol, Madonna, Debbie Harry, Keith Harring, RuPaul and others Spent countless hours. .
“We are another sad result of Kovid-19,” wrote the club’s final managers, Maria Narciso and Quirino Perez, Instagram posts Thursday “The last night we opened our doors was March 7, 2020.”
The news came as a surprise to the pair, who were working on reopening the plan and had recently received city and state permission to resume operations from 2 April. Then came a text message from The Pyramid Club owner: 41 years later, the club will close.
“For decades, managers have run the Pyramid Club with unfortunately little communication from the owners,” the couple – who are engaged – Told EV Grieve
, Which was the first to report. “We don’t know what their plans are, because they are very private people and rarely, if ever, talk with us about their business plans.”
The setback is particularly devastating for Perez, who has worked at The Pyramid Club for over 37 years. “He was his first and only employer since he started working in his teens,” Narciso said.
While the club, like so many other beloved city locations, now has a 2021 death year, at its tomb, its fresh amber-enclosed heritage transfers to its 101 Avenue A Home.
“We want to remind you that the Pyramid Club is just a building, we are the Pyramid Spirit, it lives inside of all of us, inside of you, and it will live on!” Narciso and Perez conclude their post, which is signed “Always yours.”
And that Pyramid Spirit goes deeper than the names of celebrities who elevated the place and its small, divers’ storage with early queens and immortal symbols of punk culture: the Pyramid Club a haven for strange strangers from all walks of life And there was inspiration, which gave him a place. To exist and build together.
“It served as a safe haven for devils, geeks, weirdos, queers, and dreamers to come together and create,” Tricia Romano wrote 2014 oral history The Pyramid Club. “Sometimes it was bad; Sometimes it was beautiful. But it was never boring. “
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