CBGB's walls, phonebooth and other items currently on display in new YouTube Chelsea Market Studios
part of CBGB’s wall on display at YouTube Space NY (via @idahobob)
When CBGB closed in 2006, owner Hilly Kristal and club talent booker Louise Staley carefully dismantled the interior and have had it in storage ever since. “Hilly wanted them to live on. He saved them for exactly this type of occasion,” said Staley in a press release. You may have seen some of that in person last year at the 2013 CBGB Fest. Bedford & Bowery reports that now parts of the famed NYC club’s walls, cash register and phone booth are on display as part of YouTube Space NY studios which are on the sixth floor in the Chelsea Market building (also home to NY1, Food Network, Oxygen and more). (They’ve got their own bathrooms, thanks.) The space, which you can reserve if your YouTube channel has over 5000 subscribers, hosts workshops and other events. No word on how long the relics will remain there, but there is a public happy hour at the studios on November 20 that you can RSVP to.
A few more instagrams of CBGB’s stuff in its current home, below…
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