The O. Club is Gone

[shipitfish]

I was below 14th Street for a bookstore event and decided to stop by the O. Club to play for a few hours. I approached the door to see the gate over it closed, and the camera had been ripped out. Another NYC Club down.

I know the people that run it, and it is unlikely they stopped running it. There was a bust, or a robbery, or something. I've been out of the loop since late December because I've been so busy with work. People talk a lot about how it is harder to do things in NYC because there's more people struggling for limited resources. Lines are longer than elsewhere, and that sort of thing. The poker clubs are getting that way; you have to be on top of it all to know who's open and who's gone.

It doesn't need to be this way. The legality issue would change things. It seems so hopeless. Yes, there are more important political problems in the city and the country and the world than this, but, heck, make it legal and tax us to play. I hope the O. club reopens; I'll leave their name coded in case they do under the same name.