A parking garage on King Street with a ramp for a lobby, a sprung floor, a sound system built for the room rather than the room for the system, and no liquor licence because nobody needed one. The New Yorkers hang where the light sweeps past them, on the black walls around the floor, and the mirror ball puts the rest of the room on top of them.
Michael Brody leased a disused parking garage at 84 King Street in 1977 and, after a year of building, opened the Paradise Garage properly on January 28, 1978. Larry Levan was the resident for the life of the club. Richard Long built the sound system to the shape of the room, over a sprung floor holding about fourteen hundred people. It was members only and served no alcohol, so there was no last call. It closed in the autumn of 1987 and the building came down in April 2018.
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The 1924 garage at 84 King Street, the long entrance ramp, the sprung wooden dance floor, Richard Long's custom horns and bass bins, the DJ booth above the floor, a mirror ball, no bar and no alcohol, the fruit and juice by the wall, and the doors that stayed open into the morning. Mood: members only, no bar. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.