To the neighbors of Club Exit
Since other blogs have been writing off the Studio B situation as irrelevant, let me outline here what you need to do to fight this club, in my humble opinion:
- Call 311 each and every single time there is a problem. Every time. Every night. Do not let them tell you that someone else just called in the same complaint or that there are already too many complaints. You are well within your rights to insist that they take your complaint.
- If 311 gives you numbers of other city agencies to call your complaints into during business hours, take down the numbers and DO IT.
- Call the non-emergency line of the 94th Precinct every time you call 311 and give your complaint to them too.
- Of course it goes without saying that IF YOU HEAR GUNFIRE, CALL 911. DO NOT OPEN YOUR WINDOWS AND LOOK OUTSIDE! CALL 911! This is not an episode of “Cops”.
- Keep a log of everything that happens. Dates, times, incident descriptions.
- Contact CB1 and find out when the next Public Safety committee meeting is. Bring your log to the meeting with copies for the committee.
- Write letters to the mainstream media: that means the local newspapers. They all have neighborhood reporters of some type.
- Contact every blog in the city with information about what is going on at Club Exit and what it is like to live near them.
- Join the CB1 email list and follow what’s going on in the neighborhood and see if you can find venues for bringing your story to or if there are committees you can join to help remedy the problems or bring them to the attention of additional city agencies.
- Organize your neighbors. Leaflet the neighborhood. Start a petition. Get people together so that everyone is doing all of the things on this list as often as possible.
There. That’s what I would do if I lived near Club Exit. But I don’t, so I don’t know what’s going on except what I read - which, given the problems I hear about the club, should be a lot more than I do.
It is not my job to fight the Club Exit fight. But at least I’m offering tangible suggestions about what should be done.
rowan said,
October 2, 2008 @ 4:51 pm
i don’t live near either club, but that is a really good checklist. half the things on there are options i didn’t know i have.
and a head-in-the-sand mentality will not help matters. good for you for thinking of this.