DOH trying to shut down Lit, The Box & other clubs for violating the city's smoking ban

"sh!t down.." - love it!

DOH trying to shit down Lit, The Box & other clubs for violating the city's smoking ban

it can happen to anyone

Those who can't write...proofread. That would be me, as in "shut down" versus "shit down". But it is pretty shitty when clubs close.

SHIT IT DOWN!

Ha! I needed a laugh!

The Shit Hits the Ban!

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Watch those typo's BV or no Disney Broadway banner ads for you!

That was no typo ... nice one BV.

Fuck the DOH. Who cares if people smoke? NYC is full of ninnies these days.

Meanwhile the subways suck and there are no jobs. Thanks Bloomberg. Fuckwit.

giuliani and bloomberg ruined NYC. i'm moving to hoboken.

The Box deserves to be shut down. Cigarette smoking is the least illegal thing that happens there.

Couldn't of happened to better clubs.

The Box should be shut down. Tried to rent the space for an event got quoted $5,000 per HOUR! That should be considered illegal!

NOT LITTTTTTTTttttttt!!!!

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Lit's been letting people smoke since the second the ban went into effect. That is the worst bar ever - they should get shut down.

Thank God some people are above the law.

Smoking in bars is conde naaaasty.

please shut down lit or fine them a bunch. that downstairs is a death trap and i'm not talking about the second hand smoke. chokin on a splinter.

Market Hotel and Death By Audio should heed this warning. Smoking makes uppity people lose their fucking shit.

Lit is still open? News to me. I thought people stopped going there around 2003 or so.

I love Lit and don't want to see it close down but they never enforced the smoking ban.

Back when I still smoked cigarettes we used to call it the "smoke-easy." I'm only shocked it took the DOH this long to notice.

Not Lit! I love that place.

Just don't go to certain bars if you don't like them you fucktards.

Yer tax dollars at work, y'all... undercover Department of Health employees.

11:32 - ha ha! good one!

Lit sucks and you all know it.

Well, Market Hotel, Death by Audio, and whatnot would theoretically have more legal problems than smoking inside (ie, I doubt they have a liquor license to serve booze or even have the permits to function as a venue).

That being said, I have been on stage on Lit when sparks started flying out of one of the outlets behind me, nearly catching a curtain on fire! Yikes! As someone else stated, smoking is not the fire hazard down there! Still, I think Lit has been good to a lot of lesser known bands over the years, so it would suck to lose that.

12:27 - smooth. why don't you go shut down two more great venues, narc.

Market Hotel gets away with it because the DOH doesn't even know they exist. You think they have a health permit? They would never pass an inspection.
MArket Hotel shows that anyone who opens a place legally is a SUCKER! It's best to open illegally with no investment, take in all the money you can, and then cut your losses when you inevitably get shut down by the city.
Why pay taxes and license fees?

I'm glad there are law and order people on this board. The State must be obeyed ALWAYS. It doesn't matter that this "regulation" was never put to the vote of the people and was a decision made by some politicians. We vote for our representatives and its just too bad. OBEY. If you need to smoke you can just stay home, as long as it is illegal in your home or in a public space. Personally, I'm sick of seeing the stroke victim's brain explode with blood on our elevator TV screen over and over and then sliced up for the DOH propaganda for which my tax dollars pay. This is really a form of terrorism during my work day. Don't forget, OBEY BLOOMBERG. OBEY.

The Box is an awful venue, and a horrifically overpriced one at that.

i'll come out in defense of the smoking ban. i used to smoke but don't anymore. when i'm at a party where everyone's smoking my clothes smell like shit the next day. also i don't see the big deal with stepping outside for a cig if you want one. i appreciate that if i choose not to smoke i don't have to breathe in everybody else's in a smokey bar. and bloomberg may not have put the smoking ban up for a vote, but did you vote for him? how many people on this board even show up for elections. you want accountability we gotta do better than 40% turnout for elections

Thank God I still live in a city that allows smoking in bars and even some restaurants still.

"Thank God I still live in a city that allows smoking in bars and even some restaurants still."

Good for you, dipshit.

5:57 "This is really a form of terrorism during my work day."
Then stick your nose in a goddam book. Staring at elevators in a TV, sweet job. I'm glad you weighed in.

the east village will benefit immensely from Lit being shut down. that place blows so hard and is the epitome of all that is fucked about Manhattan. PLEASE SHUT LIT DOWN THNX and take all those stupid fucking fur-coat-wearing iPod-"dJ"ing bitchez with you

lit was open in 2002 by 3 artists to support an art community that barely exists any more. the gallery in the back of lit is called
fuse gallery (http://www.fusegallerynyc.com) and is supported by the patrons that drink at lit. the owners are all artists and one is even sober i believe. they all live in new york city and have all worked in bars before lit was open. they may have broken the law, and they will probably pay dearly, but why has know one mentioned that the fuse gallery has hosted over 80 art shows and supported artists that cant get shows in new york,and have been for almost a decade. also the thousands of musicians that have played there.I dont think the haters even know why lit opened. they opened to support the creative community in new york. isn't that why most people moved to the downtown aria? to be around artists and musicians? they fucked up, but i was there 2 nights ago and not one person was smoking. one of the owners was at the end of the bar, and he was repremanding a patron for smoking and said "dood never again, we could loose the gallery". i was impressed. and then he started to go on and on about the fact that all his staff would be out of work and all the artists that would loose the there gallery, and not one word about his own welfare. its funny you only hear the bad things about places like this. I say give them another chance.
sincerely,
concerned creative