This Used to be a Club: An Evening of Conversation on Nightlife

Join us for an evening of conversation on archiving, protecting, and advocating for nightlife spaces.

Nightlife has long been more than entertainment. For Black, queer, immigrant, and other marginalized New Yorkers, nightlife is infrastructure—a form of inclusive public space in the face of racialized zoning, policing, and gentrification.

This Used to Be a Club is a data-driven reconstruction of club geographies that visualizes cultural displacement. It also celebrates how nightlife communities have persistently engaged in placemaking, culture, and joy.

About the event

Learn about new data on former nightlife spaces in Manhattan and join us for a conversation with nightlife advocates and workers on how we can learn from the past to save the nightlife spaces of today. The panel will be moderated by Pratt Center’s Senior Planner, Tara Duvivier. Food will be provided.

This event is open to the public.