Don Hill's closed for good!

Why the "!"?

Not to sound like a heartless prick, but the club was no major loss. Something better will hopefully be built soon in the way of a concert hall.

I never went there,
And I look forward to the new Mamouns West going in there shortly.

That's funny, you sound exactly like a heartless prick. You want fewer places like Don Hill's and more like T5, or just more condos? That's exactly what you deserve, moron.

yet another piece of NY nightlife erased from the downtown scene in favor of big money, giant glass condos full of rich folks and a ground floor Starbucks/Duane Reede/Citibank.

Really folks, Manhattan is OVER.

I miss the real Don Hills of real shows. The last year of Don Hills since they were taken over was a freaking joke. All the headline bands were invite only. It became a celebrity hangout for out of touch uptown rich famous people to pretend they were downtown and gritty and 'punk'.

I would have loved for the old Don Hills to stay forever, but if it was going to continue as a pretentious guest list only venue, trading on its downtown cred in order to make rich folks feel cool, then It's better it closes at this point. Good riddance.

"yet another piece of NY nightlife erased from the downtown scene in favor of big money, giant glass condos full of rich folks and a ground floor Starbucks/Duane Reede/Citibank."

Sometimes I think the majority of commenters have nothing higher than a teenage intellect. YOU can't afford to keep it open, YOU can do nothing to support small clubs besides buy tickets. People want money...FACT! Money wins in urban development...FACT! While it sucks, it is indeed reality.

ps- Stop b!tching and start DOING!

"YOU can do nothing to support small clubs besides buy tickets."

dumbest statement yet. um, that's what you do to support a small club. You buy tickets.

You think the yuppies that support Starbucks do anything else to support the chain other than buy coffee? Do people do anything else but buy toothpaste and stuff in the CVS to support their local drugstore?

the club turned into a 'velvet rope' type club in its last days taken over by Fashion Week and all that BS, really ruined its legacy in the end.

12:32:

you sir are a moron

Ponte Equities was special

your right.... I can't afford to keep it open, I can do nothing to support small clubs besides buy tickets. People want money...FACT! Money wins in urban development...FACT! While it sucks, it is indeed reality. I understand now.

All those times I paid to get into Don HIlls for a show and bought drinks, I see now that wasn't enough. I should have done more. I really should have done much more.

and ps- I really need to stop b!tching and start DOING!

Thanks for the suggestion. I am going to stop bitching about this and take my life savings and buy the land from the developers and keep Don Hills open. I don't care if they wont sell it to me, or if I don't have enough money to compete with one of downtown's oldest family-run landholding companies, or if I have to somehow borrow millions and use half my life in court to wrestle away that piece of land from them, By golly I'm gonna do it! I'm gonna get that land and keep Don Hills open. You'll see.

12:53 - HUGE Idiot!

LOL
you hipsters acting like Don would even know you
reminds me of that Paulie Shore story
where he went up to LL Cool J and said "Mama said knock you oooouuut! Ya, man, I love that song"
and LL said "Get the fuck out of my face"

the Weeeeeeeaselll, chowing on some grindaaaage.

YOU can do nothing to support small clubs besides buy tickets."

dumbest statement yet. um, that's what you do to support a small club. You buy tickets.

Hey f--kface, ever think you're smart but then realized that you missed the actual point of the bigger picture?

12:38....thank you, we all had a good laugh at your expense. Study economics and urban infrastructural kinetics much?? Didn't think so, moron!

i see another duane reade

no it will be a cvs

yeah 1:22 because most people that buy tickets to a Rock club or drink at a bar or buy soap at a drugstore or buy coffee at a coffee place study economics and urban infrastructural kinetics. idiot.

1:22 - it's good to see that with that Economics degree you are still able to hit BV through the firewall at the think tank, er, Starbucks.

This place nurtured the NYC high school music scene before it got turned over. Fuck you all in advance for bashing it. 'Early' shows were the perfect way to play in a REAL venue with a REAL sound system to all our friends and the people who dug us. We didn't have to play a matinee for it to be an all ages show, and everyone was happy as long as a crowd came. No "we'll sell you tickets to sell" bullshit. We weren't judged or pushed away just because we weren't completely DIY (i.e. had a managerial setup/paid money for non-basement recordings) or didn't play derivative surf pop/rickety punk music. We could bill with our friends and check out each others' sets. Despite the place's overly "rock and ROLLLLL" aesthetic, there was nothing quite like it. I'm really bummed this place turned out the way it did, but it was gonna happen at some point, especially after Don passed. The all-ages scene in Manhattan now is Livenation, Todd P, or bust.

Why is it whenever there someone rants the length of a paragraph or longer, some douchenozzle replies with a lame "you're an idiot" comment? Seriously? THAT'S what you come up with?

Yeah, go ahead and reply with that comment. It's not like I won't see it coming.

I love it how whenever there is an unfortunate closing of a small independent NYC cultural institution because of greed and politics and corporate money of the new NYC that everyone on this site deplores, there's always one clueless supporting douchebag who found his way onto this site who has to repeatedly post comments supporting the big money corporate takeover scheme as some sort of 'love it or leave it if you can't afford it' mentality.

It always seems like it's one person. And this time is no exception.

I'll bet you never went to Don HIlls anyway in your whole life. You're probably typing stuff on here from your overpaid perch at some financial institution. And you probably just arrived here recently. How you decided to post here I'll never know.

Go away and continue your day trading.

If more people had studied economics and urban infrastructural kinetics Don HIlls would still be open today.

if more punk rockers had gone to business school, CBGB would still be open today.

Wow - these comments are amazing. I smell a Pauly Shore/Weasel meme coming on...

And "infrastructural kinetics"? Love it that Don Rumsfeld is posting on here now.

More like this, please.

If more stockbrokers were in bands, the music business would be in better shape today.

I think we need to move the Bowery Electric into the lounge of the NYU business school. Then it will never close.

if anonymous commenters were hummus, we'd have a hummus stand on the internet

Every day I go into CVS, Duane Reade or Starbucks I am going to invest in their companies in addition to just simply buying their product. This is something I never did with Don Hills, Now I regret it.

Thing I don't get about 12:32 is that he/she says, "p.s. STOP BITCHING, START DOING."

If buying tickets and drinks doesn't help, what else is left TO DO?

thing I don't get about 12:32 is why is she/he posting here?

12:32 is a simplistic and unrealistic fantasy post by a clueless dumbo

12:32 wins as dummy of the day

i hate 12:32, I sure do

Best part about 12:32's comment is that he's self-censoring the word "bitching."

6 ^ I'm sure there are places nearby your area where you can buy a life.

I like CVS much better than Duane Reade. Most CVS stores now have self-checkout so you don't have to deal with idiot cashiers. Can't wait till computers replace everyone.

holy cr@p i can't believe they are tearing down don hills, just like that. too bad. this city is just falling apart. boooooooooooooo developers!!!

i hate 12:32

miss u pauly shore

1:50 the greatest comment of 2011

Me thinks poor old Don was taken advantage of by Nur and Paul. First they drove a 20 year institution into the ground by turning their backs on the people that actually used to regularly frequent the place, then they took all the promotional money and diminished nightly receipts and stiffed Don till he died. Sounds like the smoke and mirrors of the NYC nightlife scene. Too many leeches and liars and not enough stand up dudes- like Don. Too bad he was too old to keep his spot open and vibrant and too bad he didn't find a decent guy to buy him out.
The Ponte family has a TON of real estate on the wild west side- this is not their style. Development can take years to plan and get entitled and the gentlemen at Ponte would be in no rush if they were getting paid. (anyone remember Rebar/Suite 16?) Betcha Nur & Paul (with really no skin in the game) stiffed the landlords like they stiffed Don. They're lucky they only got evicted; these are serious people that expect people to live up to their word. The fact that the morning after it happens Nur gets his spin out on Page Six so soon shows he's got dirty laundry to hide. What a punk.

the rent is too damn high

i can buy bath salt at duane reade and cvs and get high for cheap and forget all my problems

Nur Khan and Paul Sevigny were never owners they were essentially promoters who called themselves owners. They handle all their business with mob like grift and gusto. The movie "Scarface" comes to mind in more ways than one when referring to this duo. Anyone who's had the misfortune of working with them can attest to that. PR baiting, Don Hill desecrating motherfuckers.

you are all phonys that shop at mega malls, american apparel, cvs and starf*cks. Suppurt mom & pop stores bitches!

5 random thoughts about this thread:

1) ""YOU can do nothing to support small clubs besides buy tickets."
dumbest statement yet. um, that's what you do to support a small club. You buy tickets."

Methinks 12:38 agreed with 12:32 instead of dissing him/her without realizing it.

2) And to file under "just sayin'", I think that urban development in the private sector (as opposed to public as in the High Line Park) is a misnomer b/c it suggests a renewal, or replacement of a permanent or long-withstanding structure with the intention of becoming what it replaced but it's also considered trendy, of-the-moment, here-today-gone-tomorrow and "modern", but "modern" design always changes with the times/every generation.

3) Now "urban industrial kinetics"? That's just a mindfuck. I had to google that and according to them, it doesn't exist but that won't stop people on here actually thinking they know what they're talking about.

4) Don Hill's was a great small club to listen and experience loud rock n' roll but I'm surprised it didn't go down with Wetlands and Tonic and other clubs right before the real estate bubble burst. In fact, it was probably SAVED for a few more years b/c the bubble burst, so I think we should all be grateful for that.

5) The whole "if punk rockers had gone to business school" & "if stockbrokers were in bands" conversation is an interesting give-take, push-pull. One side would ask how can we save rock clubs and the other would ask how can we make $ off of it.

Nur, pay your employees what you owe them, you liar crook !

Haters. Make way for more condos. It's another case of the CBGBs.

...or should I say this gives me the CBGBs?

Its funny how y'all make a big deal about don hills. Perhaps this place was alright "back in the day", but it ended up sucking in the past few years. Whenever friends would mention going there I was reluctant to head all the way west for a time that was lame at best. I'm sure a lot of you secretly agree with me, but will try to disagree because you think it's "cool" to support don hills.

Paulie Shore used to hang at Don Hills. The "Son In Law" after-party was the best.

Don Hill was a very cool guy, but the demise of this club was a long time coming. Installing stripper poles is always an act of desperation. As for the snooty metrosexual buffoons Nur and Paul, they're just Ian Schrager/Steve Rubell wannabes.

Schrager/Rubell wannabes but even cokier, sleazier, and more corrupt.

I coined "urban industrial kinetics" yesterday....Thanks for taking the bait and swimming upstream!

ps - my lecture begins @ 2:30 in front of Duane Reed.

Don was a good guy and will be missed by many ,i enjoyed his company many a time at the EarInn .RIP Don

Nur stopped paying his staff on February 27th. Any one who wants to hear more I have details. The will be a class action law suit.