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Posted in music | venues on March 13, 2013

Monster Island building being demolished today

via @oj_s
Monster Island

Williamsburg DIY spot Monster Island has been closed since October 2011 but today it's really gone -- the building on Metropolitan Ave at the river (which also held Secret Project Robot which found a new home) is being demolished as we speak. The intsagram above was taken by OJ of XRay Eyeballs and you can still see the SPR art on the walls. Sad.

Tags: Monster Island, Secret Project Robot
posted at 2:52 PM on March 13, 2013 in music | venues | Comments (37)

Comments (37)

Man, I will always remember those awesome shows I saw there... Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Oneida, Strapping Fieldhands, and others...

Posted by Anonymous | March 13, 2013 3:04 PM

what's coming, a massive glass and steel skyscraper of condos for rich yuppies, wall streeters and Euro-trash?

typical.

Posted by Anonymous | March 13, 2013 3:07 PM

Is Monsters Inc. still there?

Posted by Anonymous | March 13, 2013 3:26 PM

or Little Monsters, starring Fred Savage?

Posted by Anonymous | March 13, 2013 3:32 PM

My cum, sweat, spit, piss and blood are in those ruins

Posted by Anonymous | March 13, 2013 3:42 PM

Animal Collective was awesome there.

Posted by Anonymous | March 13, 2013 3:50 PM

fuck, this is shame. a part of my soul is in that building.

Posted by Anonymous | March 13, 2013 4:14 PM

my friend got drunk at a tyvek show here and then tried to dial a girl's back like a pay phone. memories :(

Posted by Anonymous | March 13, 2013 5:23 PM

ex models, drunkdriver, fat worm of error, etc etc etc

someday someone will make a coffee table book about this space and people who were too square to go there in the first place will buy it and strategically place it in their apartment

Posted by Anonymous | March 13, 2013 5:59 PM

total bummer; that was a great space and they always had interesting stuff going on. guess that riverfront property was just too valuable to developers.......

Posted by Anonymous | March 13, 2013 6:19 PM

I read the book "monster island" but i don't think it is related to this place

Posted by Anonymous | March 13, 2013 6:20 PM

first they came for the venues . . .

Posted by Anonymous | March 13, 2013 6:51 PM

Fuck Williamsburg it's becoming a soulless hellhole.

Posted by Anonymous | March 13, 2013 6:54 PM

^becoming? It already is

Posted by Anonymous | March 13, 2013 7:33 PM

then they came for Sweetwater. I remember that shit.

Posted by Anonymous | March 14, 2013 12:11 AM

If someone makes a book about that place they should figure out a better way to waste time. Play video games or something. Jeez.

Posted by Schroeder | March 14, 2013 12:16 AM

I can still see most of the bands mentioned in the comments above elsewhere and have a better time of it. So that feels pretty good, knowing that I won't have to contend with the people who posted those comments and their stupid behavior and gross bodily secretions.

Posted by Anonymous | March 14, 2013 12:23 AM

Monster Island = Solyndra

Posted by Stacy | March 14, 2013 12:29 AM

Thats pretty sad.
One day very soon that area will look just like Battery Park City and Gantry park LIC.
Next comes the Bed Bath & Beyond, more Duane Reades, and rightwing randian Whole Foods.

Posted by Anonymous | March 14, 2013 1:06 AM

williamsburg has sucked for 15 years

Posted by Anonymous | March 14, 2013 2:16 AM

Nice shot OJ!

Anyone else remember when Todd P. first starting throwing shows in the basement of that space before anybody had even come up with a name for it? I remember seeing a kick ass show with The Occasion (R.I.P.) in that basement.

Posted by Anonymous | March 14, 2013 10:52 AM

Out with the old, in with the new.

Posted by Anonymous | March 14, 2013 11:46 AM

Just put a $1.2MM down payment on my new luxury condo to be built on that spot, so this is a good day for me.

Posted by Anonymous | March 14, 2013 12:12 PM

^me too. these losers crying because they can't see some fat guy play noise rock can s all my d.

Posted by Anonymous | March 14, 2013 12:33 PM

Just signed another lease in the neighborhood. Far less enthusiastic than I was half a dozen years ago. I really really hope developers don't totally Murray Hill the shit out of Williamsburg. Greed is not good.

Posted by Anonymous | March 14, 2013 1:11 PM

^a renter is mad. i'm shocked.

Posted by Anonymous | March 14, 2013 1:31 PM

fingers crossed puppy spa! fingers crossed puppy spa!...

Posted by waldo faldo geraldo | March 14, 2013 2:50 PM

RIP. NYC has sold its soul to the money lords

Posted by Anonymous | March 14, 2013 3:36 PM

going to a puppy spa would be awesome, my puppy is the best

Posted by Anonymous | March 14, 2013 4:34 PM

puppy spa ftw!


good riddance miscreant!

Posted by Anonymous | March 14, 2013 7:07 PM

everyone just go ahead and concede to these yuppie frat boys who kill the soul of everything valid in this city and move to bushwick so that we can do all this again in 5-10 years

Posted by Anonymous | March 14, 2013 8:02 PM

Riverhead is the new DIY scene

Posted by Anonymous | March 14, 2013 10:24 PM

New Hyde Park has great loft spaces.

Posted by Anonymous | March 14, 2013 11:04 PM

long beach has great places to squat. free houses for unemployed artist!

Posted by Anonymous | March 15, 2013 1:58 AM

You city dwellers are idiots.

Posted by Anonymous | March 15, 2013 8:59 AM

are people keeping it real in Riverhead?

Posted by Anonymous | March 15, 2013 12:05 PM

Supreme Court of the State of New York
County of Suffolk
1 Court Street
Riverhead, New York 11901

bout as real as it gets tatonka

Posted by Anonymous | March 15, 2013 4:46 PM

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