Limelight

After eight months without revenue due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Nicki Camp announced the permanent closure of his venue Blackthorn 51 in Elmhurst, Queens. We spoke to him about the unfortunate news.

Nightlife photographer Steve Eichner poured through his archives for this new book featuring NYC clubs like Tunnel, Palladium, the Roxy, Club USA, Webster Hall and, of course, Limelight.

Peter Gatien, the '80s/'90s NYC nightlife impresario who owned storied clubs Limelight, Tunnel, Club USA and Palladium, has written a memoir, titled The Club King: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife, which is out in March.

Onetime New York nightclub impresario Peter Gatien is suing the Dream Hotel Group, accusing them of stealing the name of his '80s/'90s hotspot Limelight. The boutique hotel chain is planning to open a club called Limelight in its yet-to-open Dream Hollywood.

The church that housed Peter Gatien's iconic NYC's '80s/'90s club Limeliight has a few different things since the music stopped. A new club, Avalon, then a high-end mall, called Limelight Marketplace that opened in 2010, and part of the space has been a David Barton Gym since 2014...

More than 17 years after being sentenced to jail for killing Angel Melendez, Michael Alig is a free man. Psychecyberadiant Scotto went to pick him up at the prison today with club kid Astro Erle and he's documenting the whole thing on Instagram, the video you can watch below of his first words out of jail included...

In my sort-of-review of the new "Limelight" documentary I wrote sort-of-jokingly that "it would have been nice to hear a nasty quote or two in the movie from one of the many ex-Gatien employes who hated Peter's wife...

Limelight is a documentary about "the rise and fall of New York's greatest nightclub empire", or more specifically, about club owner Peter Gatien...

Art passed yesterday, after a courageous fight with cancer. Known to everyone with clout in the nightclub industry, Art was a familiar face for a few decades...