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{{Short description|Former music club in New York City}}
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{{Infobox venue
| name = CBGB
| image = CBGB club facade.jpg
| image_caption    = The entrance to CBGB, {{Circa|2005}}
| owner = [[Hilly Kristal]]
| opened           = December 10, 1973
| closed = October 15, 2006
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| pushpin_map_caption    = Location of CBGB in [[Manhattan]], New York City
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| location= [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]], U.S.
| capacity = 350<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/16/cbgb.closing/|last=Kokenes|first=Chris|publisher=[[CNN]]|title=CBGB sounds its final note|access-date=May 18, 2016|archive-date=October 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005141643/http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/16/cbgb.closing/|url-status=live}}</ref>
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| partof           = [[The Bowery Historic District]]
| partof_refnum    = 13000027
| location         = 315 [[Bowery]]<br />[[Manhattan]], New York City, U.S.
| coordinates      = {{Coord|40|43|31|N|73|59|31|W|region:US-NY_type:landmark|display=it}}
| built = 1878
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| website = {{url|www.CBGB.com}}
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'''CBGB''' was a New York City music club opened in 1973 by [[Hilly Kristal]] and his ex-wife [[Karen Kristal]] in the [[East Village, Manhattan|East Village]] in [[Manhattan]], New York City.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-06-05 |title=CBGB Co-Founder Karen Kristal Dies at 88 |url=https://www.amny.com/news/karen-kristal-88-stern-partner-in-cbgb-with-her-ex-hilly/ |access-date=2025-10-01 |website=www.amny.com |language=en-US}}</ref> The club was previously a biker bar and before that was a [[dive bar]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Television's Marquee Moon |author=Bryan Waterman |year=2011 |publisher=The Continuum International Publishing Group |location=US |isbn=978-1-44114-5-291 |pages=66–67 }}</ref> The letters ''CBGB'' were for ''[[Country music|Country]], [[Bluegrass music|Bluegrass]], [[Blues]]'', Kristal's original vision for the club, but CBGB soon emerged as a famed and iconic venue for [[punk rock]] and [[New wave music|new wave]] bands, including [[Ramones]], [[Dead Boys]], [[Television (band)|Television]], [[Richard Hell and the Voidoids]], [[Patti Smith|Patti Smith Group]], [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]], and [[Talking Heads]].

Other bands affiliated with CBGB included [[Agnostic Front]], [[Murphy's Law (band)|Murphy's Law]], [[Richard Hell and the Voidoids|U.S. Chaos]], [[Cro-Mags]], [[Warzone (band)|Warzone]], [[Gorilla Biscuits]], [[Sick of It All]], and [[Youth of Today]].

One storefront beside CBGB became the "CBGB Record Canteen", a record shop and café. In the late 1980s, "CBGB Record Canteen" was converted into an art gallery and second performance space, "CB's 313 Gallery". CB's Gallery was played by music artists of milder sounds, such as [[acoustic rock]], [[Folk music|folk]], [[jazz]], or [[experimental music]], such as [[Dadadah]], [[Kristeen Young]], [[Medeski Martin & Wood]] and [[Toshi Reagon]], while CBGB continued to showcase mainly [[hardcore punk]], [[post punk]], [[heavy metal music|metal]], and [[alternative rock]]. 

313 Gallery was also the host location for Alchemy, a weekly [[Gothic rock|Goth]] night showcasing goth, [[industrial music|industrial]], dark rock, and [[Dark wave|darkwave]] bands.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nycgoth.com/clubs/alchemy/|title=Alchemy|website=www.nycgoth.com|access-date=July 20, 2018|archive-date=July 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720225344/http://www.nycgoth.com/clubs/alchemy/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://absolution.nyc/1996/09/09/alchemy-gothic-mondays/|title=Alchemy Gothic Mondays|first=D. J.|last=Jason|date=September 9, 1996|access-date=February 6, 2023|archive-date=January 28, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128042210/http://absolution.nyc/1996/09/09/alchemy-gothic-mondays/|url-status=live}}</ref> On the other side, CBGB was operating a small cafe and bar in the mid-1990s, which served classic New York pizza, among other items.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/19/nyregion/playing-in-the-neighborhood-133093.html | work=The New York Times | title=Playing in the neighborhood | date=December 19, 1993 | access-date=April 1, 2010 | archive-date=April 29, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130429130135/http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/19/nyregion/playing-in-the-neighborhood-133093.html | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/24/movies/pop-and-jazz-guide-993069.html | work=The New York Times | title=Pop And jazz guide | date=January 24, 2003 | access-date=April 1, 2010 | archive-date=April 29, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130429141626/http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/24/movies/pop-and-jazz-guide-993069.html | url-status=live }}</ref>

Around 2000, CBGB entered a protracted dispute over allegedly unpaid rent amounts until the landlord, Bowery Residents' Committee, sued in 2005 and lost the case. Kristal and the BRC reached an agreement whereby CBGB would leave by October 31, 2006.<ref name="Unsigned"/>

On October 15, 2006, the club closed with a performance by [[Patti Smith]], who took the stage at 9:30 p.m. and played for 3 1/2 hours until slightly after 1 a.m. on October 16, 2006, closing with her song "Elegie" followed by reading a list of [[punk rock]] musicians and advocates who had died in recent years.<ref>[http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/36481396 Yahoo Music coverage of concert] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726093338/http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/36481396 |date=July 26, 2008 }}.</ref>

CBGB Radio launched on the [[iHeartRadio]] platform in 2010, and CBGB music festivals began in 2012.<ref name="festival">{{Cite web |url=https://www.avclub.com/cbgb-now-a-festival-could-reopen-in-new-location-1798231203 |title=CBGB now a festival, could reopen in new location |publisher=[[The A.V. Club]] |date=May 8, 2012 |access-date=May 8, 2012 |author=Marcus Gilmer |archive-date=May 9, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509231338/http://www.avclub.com/articles/cbgb-now-a-festival-could-reopen-in-new-location,73686/ |url-status=live }}</ref>  In 2013, CBGB's onetime building, 315 Bowery, was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] as part of [[The Bowery Historic District]] (not a New York City Historic District).<ref name=NationalRegister/>

==History==
===20th century===
[[File:Mike at CBGBs (14169483159).jpg|thumb|Drummer from the band Libertyville performing on the CBGB stage in January 1985]]
CBGB was founded on December 10, 1973,<ref>''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]'' magazine, 2002</ref> on the site of Kristal's earlier bar, Hilly's on the [[Bowery]], which he ran from 1969 to 1972. Its iconic logo was designed by Karen Kristal.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-06-05 |title=CBGB Co-Founder Karen Kristal Dies at 88 |url=https://www.amny.com/news/karen-kristal-88-stern-partner-in-cbgb-with-her-ex-hilly/ |access-date=2025-10-01 |website=www.amny.com |language=en-US}}</ref> Initially, Kristal focused on his more profitable West Village nightspot, Hilly's, which Kristal closed amid complaints from the bar's neighbors. After Hilly's closure, Kristal focused on the Bowery club. Its full name of '''CBGB & OMFUG''' stands for "[[Country music|Country]], [[Bluegrass music|Bluegrass]], [[Blues]], and Other Music For Uplifting Gourmandizers". Although a [[gourmand|gourmandizer]] is usually a ravenous eater of food, what Kristal meant was "a voracious eater of (…) music".<ref>[http://cbgb.com Official CBGB website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060808181332/http://www.cbgb.com/history1.htm |date=August 8, 2006 }}.</ref> Kristal's intended theme of country, bluegrass, and blues music along with poetry readings yielded to the American movement in [[punk rock]]. A pioneer in the genre, [[Ramones]] played their first shows at CBGB.<ref>Crotty & Lane, "Interview with Hilly",''The mad Monks guide to NYC'', 1999, p 190.</ref>

In 1973, while the future ''CBGB'' was still Hilly's, two locals, Bill Page and Rusty McKenna, convinced Kristal to let them book concerts.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Towsen |first=Nat |title=Debunking CBGB Myths: An Interview with Dana Kristal |url=https://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/debunking-cbgb-myths-interview-dana-kristal |access-date=2025-10-01 |website=Tiny Mix Tapes |language=en}}</ref> In February 1974, Hilly booked local band Squeeze to a residency, playing Tuesdays and Wednesdays, the club's change from country and bluegrass to original rock bands.  Squeeze was led by guitarist Mark Suall, later with CBGB's quasi house band the Revelons, which included Fred Smith of Television and JD Daugherty of the Patti Smith Group.  Although these bands did not play [[punk rock]], they helped lay its foundation.<ref name="tinymixtapes.com">[http://www.tinymixtapes.com/Debunking-CBGB-Myths-An-Interview "Debunking CBGB myths: An interview with Dana, Hilly Kristal's son] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070915202257/http://www.tinymixtapes.com/Debunking-CBGB-Myths-An-Interview |date=September 15, 2007 }}, ''[[Tiny Mix Tapes]]'', September 11, 2007.</ref>  The August 1973 collapse of the [[Mercer Arts Center]] left unsigned bands little option in New York City to play original music. Mercer refugees—including [[Suicide (band)|Suicide]], [[The Fast]],<ref>{{Cite book|title=Suicide: No Compromise |author=David Nobakht |year=2005 |publisher=SAF Publishing |location=UK |isbn=0-946719-71-3 |page=222 }}</ref> [[Ruby and the Rednecks]], [[Jayne County]], and the Magic Tramps—soon played at CBGB.

On April 14, 1974, in the audience of [[Television (band)|Television]]'s third gig were [[Patti Smith]] and [[Lenny Kaye]], whose Patti Smith Group debuted at CBGB on February 14, 1975. Other early performers included the Dina Regine Band. Dennis Lepri was lead guitarist as well as the Stillettoes which included [[Deborah Harry]] on vocals. The newly formed band Angel and the Snake, later renamed [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]], as well as [[Ramones]] arrived in August 1974. [[Mink DeVille]], [[Talking Heads]], [[The Shirts]], [[The Heartbreakers]], [[The Fleshtones]], and other bands soon followed.  During this era, media coverage was mostly provided by the ''[[SoHo Weekly News]]'', ''[[Punk (magazine)|Punk]]'', and ''[[New York Rocker]],'' while the more established papers such as ''[[The Village Voice]]'' and ''[[The New York Times]]'' largely stayed away.<ref name=":15">{{Cite web |last=Gendron |first=Bernard |title=Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde |url=https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/287378.html |access-date=2023-11-01 |website=[[University of Chicago Press]]}}</ref> 

In April 1977, [[The Damned (band)|The Damned]] played the club, marking the first time a British punk band had ever played in America.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/binky-philips/the-damned-at-cbgb-the-ni_b_777706.html|title=The Damned at CBGB: The Night Punk Was Officially Born in the USA|first=Binky Philips Music|last=aficionado|website=[[HuffPost]]|date=November 2, 2010|access-date=December 3, 2016|archive-date=October 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161015023047/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/binky-philips/the-damned-at-cbgb-the-ni_b_777706.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

During 1975 and 1976, [[Metropolis Video]] recorded some shows on film. Beginning in 1977, Metropolis Video filmmaker Pat Ivers and partner Emily Armstrong continued to record shows in a project called Advanced TV, later renamed [[GoNightclubbing]]. Ivers' and Armstrong's films are available at the New York University Fales Library.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/nightclub/bioghist.html|title=NIGHTCLUBBING Archive by Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong. MSS 305.|website=dlib.nyu.edu|access-date=March 8, 2016|archive-date=March 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308231213/http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/nightclub/bioghist.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

CBGB's two rules were that a band must move its own equipment and play mostly original songs, although regular bands often played one or two covers in set.<ref>Kristal's son claims the policy meant to avert owing royalties to [[ASCAP]]. [http://www.tinymixtapes.com/Debunking-CBGB-Myths-An-Interview "Debunking CBGB myths: An interview with Dana, Hilly Kristal's Son] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070915202257/http://www.tinymixtapes.com/Debunking-CBGB-Myths-An-Interview |date=September 15, 2007 }}, ''[[Tiny Mix Tapes]]'', September 11, 2007.</ref>  CBGB's growing reputation drew more and more acts from outside New York City.

In 1978, [[New wave music|new wave songwriter]] [[Elvis Costello]] would open shows for [[The Voidoids]], while [[The Police]] played at CBGB for their first American gigs.  Meanwhile, CBGB became famed for [[Misfits (band)|Misfits]], [[Television (band)|Television]], [[Patti Smith|Patti Smith Group]], [[Mink DeVille]], [[Dead Boys]], [[the Dictators]], [[the Fleshtones]], [[Richard Hell and the Voidoids|the Voidoids]], [[the Cramps]], [[the B-52's]], [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]], [[Joan Jett & the Blackhearts]], [[the Shirts]], and [[Talking Heads]].  Yet in the 1980s, [[hardcore punk]]'s New York underground was CBGB's mainstay.  Named "thrash day" in a documentary on hardcore,{{Citation needed|date=December 2008}} Sunday at CBGB was [[wikt:matinée|matinée]] day, which became an institution, played from afternoon until evening by hardcore bands such as [[Reagan Youth]], [[Bad Brains]], [[Beastie Boys]], [[Agnostic Front]], [[Murphy's Law (band)|Murphy's Law]], [[Cro-Mags]], [[Leeway (band)|Leeway]], [[Warzone (band)|Warzone]], [[Gorilla Biscuits]], [[Sick of It All]], [[Misfits (band)|Misfits]], [[Sheer Terror]], [[Stillborn]] and [[Youth of Today]].

In 1990, violence inside and outside of the venue prompted Kristal to suspend hardcore bookings, although CBGB brought hardcore back at times.  CBGB's last several years had no formal bans by genre.

===21st century===
In 2005, atop its normally paid monthly rent of $19,000, CBGB was sued for some $90,000 in rent allegedly owed to its landlord, Bowery Residents' Committee (BRC).<ref name="Harris">Chris Harris, [http://www.mtv.com/news/1507393/cbgb-doesnt-have-to-pay-90000-in-back-rent-judge-rules "CBGB doesn't have to pay $90,000 in back rent, judge rules"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140720044944/http://www.mtv.com/news/1507393/cbgb-doesnt-have-to-pay-90000-in-back-rent-judge-rules/ |date=July 20, 2014 }}, ''[[MTV News]]'', August 10, 2005.</ref>  Refusing to pay until a judge ruled the debt legitimate, Kristal claimed that he had never been notified of scaled rent increases, accruing over a number of years, asserted by BRC's executive director Muzzy Rosenblatt.<ref name=Harris/>  Ruling the debt false and that BRC had never properly billed the rent increases,<ref name=Harris/>the judge indicated that CBGB ought to be declared a landmark, but noted that Rosenblatt did not need to renew the lease, soon expiring.<ref name=NYI/>  Rosenblatt vowed to appeal.<ref name=NYI/>

Expecting Rosenblatt's resistance to lease negotiation,<ref name=Harris/> Kristal agreed that the rent ought to rise, but not to the $55,000 monthly that Kristal believed the BRC to want.<ref name="NYI">NY1 News, [http://www.ny1.com/content/news/52713/judge-rules-punk-landmark-cbgb-doesn-t-owe-back-rent "Judge rules punk landmark CBGB doesn't owe back rent"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714132333/http://www.ny1.com/content/news/52713/judge-rules-punk-landmark-cbgb-doesn-t-owe-back-rent |date=July 14, 2014 }}, Time Warner Cable News: ''NY1'', August 11, 2005.</ref> 

A nonprofit corporation housing homeless above CBGB mostly through donations and government funding,<ref name=Harris/> the BRC had only one commercial tenant and raised its monthly rent to $35,000.<ref name=Unsigned/> Kristal and the BRC reached an agreement whereby CBGB would leave by September 30, 2006.<ref name="Unsigned">[http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/57912/cbgb-to-shut-down-on-sept-30 "CBGB to shut down on Sept. 30"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140705023123/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/57912/cbgb-to-shut-down-on-sept-30 |date=July 5, 2014 }}, ''Billboard'', July 6, 2006.</ref>  Planning to move CBGB to [[Las Vegas]], Kristal explained, "We're going to take the urinals. I'll take whatever I can. The movers said, 'You ought to take everything, and auction off what you don't want on eBay.' Why not?  Somebody will".<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6045796.stm "Stars return in CBGB's last shows"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830105825/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6045796.stm |date=August 30, 2011 }}, ''BBC News'', October 12, 2006.</ref>

====Closure====
[[File:CBGB closed.JPG|thumb|The exterior of CBGB on October 15, 2006, the day it closed]] 
[[File:CBGB the day after.JPG|thumb|The exterior of CBGB on October 16, 2006, the day after it closed]]
Many [[punk rock]] bands played at CBGB when they found it was going to close in hopes that their support could keep it from closing. Rocks off, a promoter in New York, organized CBGB's final weeks of shows to book "many of the artists who made CB's famous".<ref name=Unsigned /> [[Avail]], [[the Bouncing Souls]], and such newer acts opened during the last week, which included multi-night stands by [[Bad Brains]] and [[the Dictators]] and an acoustic set by Blondie.  The final show, broadcast live on [[Sirius Satellite Radio]] on October 15, was played by Patti Smith, helped on some songs by [[Flea (musician)|Flea]] of the [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]]. [[Television (band)|Television]]'s [[Richard Lloyd (guitarist)|Richard Lloyd]], too, played in a few, including "[[Marquee Moon (song)|Marquee Moon]]". Nearly finished, Smith and band playing "[[Gloria (Them song)|Gloria]]" alternated the chorus with echoes of "[[Blitzkrieg Bop]]" by the [[Ramones]]—''Hey! Ho! Let's go!''. During "Elegie",  her final encore, Smith named musicians and other music figures who had died since playing at CBGB.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2010/09/30/130250221/how-far-would-you-go-to-see-a-show|title=How far would you go to see a show|publisher=[[NPR]]|date=September 30, 2010|author=Sarah Ventre|access-date=December 22, 2012|archive-date=February 17, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130217230109/http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2010/09/30/130250221/how-far-would-you-go-to-see-a-show|url-status=live}}</ref> On October 15, 2006, upon Patti Smith's last show at CBGB, the storied bar and club closed.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/arts/music/16cbgb.html|title=CBGB Brings Down the Curtain With Nostalgia and One Last Night of Rock|last=Sisario|first=Ben|date=October 16, 2006|work=The New York Times|access-date=September 29, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=July 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712124701/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/arts/music/16cbgb.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

====Aftermath====
After closing, the old CBGB venue remained open as '''CBGB Fashions'''—retail store, wholesale department, and an online store—until October 31, 2006. CBGB Fashions moved to 19–23 [[St. Mark's Place]] on November 1, and closed nearly two years later in summer 2008.<ref name="shop">{{cite web|url=http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2008/03/cbgb_st_marks_s.php|work=[[Village Voice]]|title=CBGB St. Mark's shop closing at the end of June|first=Camille|last=Dodero|date=March 25, 2008|access-date=March 9, 2013|archive-date=April 30, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130430075945/http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2008/03/cbgb_st_marks_s.php|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Hilly Kristal died from complications of [[lung cancer]] on August 28, 2007. In early October, Kristal's family and friends hosted a private memorial service in the nearby [[YMCA]]. Soon, there was a public memorial, contributed to by CBGB onetime staff and by others.

Kristal's ex-wife Karen Kristal and his daughter, Lisa Kristal Burgman, battled legally over the purported $3 million CBGB estate, and settled in June 2009 with Burgman receiving most of the money left after payment of creditors and estate taxes.<ref>[http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2009/06/the_final_cbgb.php The final CBGB settlement: Hilly Kristal's estate takes its last legal bow] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090620061736/http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2009/06/the_final_cbgb.php |date=June 20, 2009}}, ''Village Voice'', June 16, 2009.</ref>  In 2011, a group of unknown investors bought the remaining CBGB assets, including the associated intellectual property and original interior. The location is now occupied by [[John Varvatos (company)|John Varvatos]] fashions.

In December 2015, various news outlets reported on a rebranded CBGB "reopening" at Newark International Airport as CBGB L.A.B. (Lounge and Bar)<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/cbgb-to-reopen-as-restaurant-in-newark-airport-20151221|title=CBGB to Reopen as Restaurant in Newark Airport|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=December 21, 2015|access-date=December 3, 2016|archive-date=November 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118061028/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/cbgb-to-reopen-as-restaurant-in-newark-airport-20151221|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://gothamist.com/2015/12/21/cbgb_newark_restaurant.php|title=CBGB Is Reopening At Newark Airport, As A Restaurant|access-date=December 3, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161229120328/http://gothamist.com/2015/12/21/cbgb_newark_restaurant.php|archive-date=December 29, 2016}}</ref> by New York chef Harold Moore, which had opened as of the end of December 2015.

==Venue==
[[File:ExCBGB.jpg|thumb|The [[John Varvatos]] store on the site where CBGB used to stand]]
By late 2007, fashion designer [[John Varvatos]] planned to open a store in CBGB's former space, 315 Bowery,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/01/AR2007110102492.html|title=A punk temple reborn: Would you like to see the $200 safety pins?|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=November 2, 2007|first=David|last=Segal|access-date=April 1, 2010|archive-date=November 9, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109091331/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/01/AR2007110102492.html|url-status=live}}</ref> but to tastefully trail CBGB's legacy<ref>{{cite news |title=Now Opening Saturday Special |url=http://ny.racked.com/archives/2008/04/05/now_open_saturday_special_john.php |publisher=Racked.com |date=January 14, 2008 |access-date=Jan 16, 2008 |quote=We don't want anyone to walk into the space and say, 'Oh, they screwed it up.' We want them to walk in and say, 'It's not CBGB, but they did the right thing.' |archive-date=October 26, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111026201037/http://ny.racked.com/archives/2008/04/05/now_open_saturday_special_john.php |url-status=live }}</ref> rock and roll stickers on the walls, and much of the graffiti at the toilets was preserved, as were some [[playbill]]s, found behind a wall, from shows at the club's 10th anniversary in 1983.<ref name="Bretell">{{cite news|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKN2737445120080327|title=NY gallery keeps punk alive in old CBGB space|date=Mar 27, 2008|publisher=Reuters|access-date=Jun 30, 2009|author=Karen Brettell|archive-date=November 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107102546/https://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKN2737445120080327|url-status=dead}}</ref> The store opened in April 2008.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/19/arts/music/19varv.html|title=At the former CBGB, the punks once played but the rich now pomp|work=The New York Times|access-date=May 7, 2008|date=Apr 19, 2008|author=Ben Sisario|archive-date=August 29, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110829042452/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/19/arts/music/19varv.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2008, a [[SoHo]] art gallery dedicated to music photography, the Morrison Hotel, opened a second location in the onetime CBGB Gallery at 313 Bowery,<ref name="Bretell" /> but the Morrison Hotel gallery closed in 2011.<ref>{{cite news |first=Steve |last=Cuozzo |title=WilmerHale eyes 7 WTC |date=March 8, 2011 |publisher=[[New York Post]] |url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/realestate/commercial/wilmerhale_eyes_wtc_cz9ph2GGmyDtVCyxsYlJcP/1 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130216034104/http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/realestate/commercial/wilmerhale_eyes_wtc_cz9ph2GGmyDtVCyxsYlJcP/1 | archive-date=February 16, 2013}}</ref> The space was then occupied by a [[Surf culture|surf]]-oriented [[Patagonia (clothing)|Patagonia]] store until late 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.patagonia.com/us/store/patagonia-nyc-bowery-313-bowery-new-york-city-ny-10003|title=Patagonia New York Bowery Store - 313 Bowery NY, NY 10003|access-date=December 3, 2014|archive-date=January 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150102095744/http://www.patagonia.com/us/store/patagonia-nyc-bowery-313-bowery-new-york-city-ny-10003|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Perler |first1=Elie |title=Wipe Out: Patagonia Closes its Bowery Surf Shop |url=https://boweryboogie.com/2021/11/wipe-out-patagonia-closes-its-bowery-surf-shop/ |website=Bowery Boogie |access-date=29 July 2022 |date=16 November 2021 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220323090042/https://boweryboogie.com/2021/11/wipe-out-patagonia-closes-its-bowery-surf-shop/ |archive-date=March 23, 2022}}</ref>

Called the "Extra Place", the alley behind the building became a pedestrian mall. [[Dead Boys]]' [[Cheetah Chrome]] rued, "All of Manhattan has lost its soul to money lords", yet reflected, "If that alley could talk, it's seen it all".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/03252008/news/regionalnews/hobo_goes_haute_103428.htm|title=Hobo Goes haute|work=[[New York Post]]|access-date=Mar 28, 2008|date=Mar 25, 2008|author=Jennifer Fermino|archive-date=April 3, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080403090456/http://www.nypost.com/seven/03252008/news/regionalnews/hobo_goes_haute_103428.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> CBGB's nomination as a landmark drew an explanation:
{{Quote|text=CBGB was founded in 1973 at 315 Bowery, in a former nineteenth-century saloon on the first floor of the Palace Lodging House. The legendary music venue fostered new genres of American music, including punk and [[art rock]], that defined the culture of downtown Manhattan in the 1970s, and that still resonate today. In this role as cultural incubator, CBGB served the same function as the theatres and concert halls of the Bowery's storied past. The former club, now occupied by a retail business, remains a pilgrimage site for legions of music fans.<ref name=NationalRegister>[http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/feature/places/pdfs/13000027.pdf National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: The Bowery Historic District] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140710093957/http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/feature/places/pdfs/13000027.pdf |date=July 10, 2014 }}.</ref>}}

==Legacy==
CBGB's second awning, the one in place when the club closed in 2006, was moved into the lobby of the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] in Cleveland.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/cbgb-awning-sells-at-auction-for-30000-107164/ |title=CBGB Awning Sells at Auction for $30,000 |magazine=Rolling Stone |first=Job |last=Blistein |date=December 14, 2016 |access-date=May 16, 2021 |archive-date=May 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516082941/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/cbgb-awning-sells-at-auction-for-30000-107164/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The CBGB Festival produced large free concerts in [[Times Square]] and [[Central Park]] on July 7, 2012. They also showcased hundreds of bands in venues across the city.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/cbgb-festival-brings-veteran-bands-back-to-the-stage-243849/ |title=CBGB Festival Brings Veteran Bands Back to the Stage |first=Patrick |last=Flanary |date=July 5, 2012 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=May 16, 2021 |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414130855/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/cbgb-festival-brings-veteran-bands-back-to-the-stage-243849/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=A Raucous Weekend for a Rock Club That's Long Gone |date=July 8, 2012 |first=Jon |last=Pareles |author-link=Jon Pareles |department=Critic’s Notebook |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> The festival premiered dozens of rock-n-roll movies in theaters around Manhattan.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cbgb.com/about |title=About Us |work=CBGB |access-date=May 16, 2021 |archive-date=May 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210519025332/https://www.cbgb.com/about |url-status=live }}</ref> A new CBGB Festival was announced to take place at Under the K Bridge Park in [[Brooklyn]] on September 27, 2025.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-05-12 |title=CBGB Reborn as Brooklyn Music Festival Featuring Iggy Pop, Jack White, and Sex Pistols |url=https://consequence.net/2025/05/cbgb-festival-2025-iggy-pop-jack-white/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=Consequence |language=en}}</ref>

Directed by [[Randall Miller]] and starring [[Alan Rickman]] as Hilly Kristal, the film ''[[CBGB (film)|CBGB]]'', about Kristal and the origins of the club, was released in October 2013<ref>{{cite web |url=http://laughingsquid.com/cbgb-film-tells-the-history-of-new-york-citys-legendary-club/ |title=''CBGB'', new film tells the history of New York City's legendary club |work=laughingsquid.com |date=April 10, 2013 |access-date=May 7, 2013 |archive-date=April 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130424130020/http://laughingsquid.com/cbgb-film-tells-the-history-of-new-york-citys-legendary-club/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=CBGB (2013)|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1786751/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1|publisher=imdb.com|access-date=December 1, 2013|archive-date=August 12, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130812052428/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1786751/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1|url-status=live}}</ref> to harsh reviews.<ref>{{cite web|author=Linda Sickler|title='Punk rock' inventor Legs McNeil coming to Savannah post 'CBGB'|url=http://savannahnow.com/do/2013-01-22/punk-rock-inventor-legs-mcneil-coming-savannah-post-cbgb#.UpuKsGRDtPE|access-date=December 1, 2013|archive-date=December 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203220630/http://savannahnow.com/do/2013-01-22/punk-rock-inventor-legs-mcneil-coming-savannah-post-cbgb#.UpuKsGRDtPE|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Marc Campbell|title=If you thought CBGB's bathrooms were full of shit, check out the movie|date=October 2013|url=http://dangerousminds.net/comments/if_you_thought_cbgbs_bathrooms_were_full_of_shit_check_out_the_movie|access-date=December 1, 2013|archive-date=December 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203053408/http://dangerousminds.net/comments/if_you_thought_cbgbs_bathrooms_were_full_of_shit_check_out_the_movie|url-status=live}}</ref>
===Appearances, mentions and parodies===
* CBGB was in a promotional ad aired during New York City's bid to host the [[Olympic Games 2012| 2012 Olympic Games]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=194vqe3DZQI NYC 2012 Olympics Promo Video] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409002927/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=194vqe3DZQI |date=April 9, 2016 }}, NYC Olympic Committee via YouTube, (Timecode 1:36–1:49)</ref>
* CBGB appears in the 2010 rhythm game ''[[Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thedailytruffle.com/2010/09/guitar-hero-launch-party/|title=A Los Angeles Social Diary|access-date=December 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729020855/http://www.thedailytruffle.com/2010/09/guitar-hero-launch-party/|archive-date=July 29, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* In The Shapers' song "Old School Punk Star", the venue is referenced in the bridge: "...and to rock on at the CBGB ..."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theshapers.bandcamp.com/track/old-school-punk-star|title=Old School Punk Star, by The Shapers|access-date=December 3, 2016|archive-date=April 15, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415140219/http://theshapers.bandcamp.com/track/old-school-punk-star|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Rapper [[Aesop Rock]] mentions CBGB in his song "Shrunk", "Telephone uncovered by purveyors of the [[Ouija]]/Then checked against the CBGB women's room graffiti"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genius.com/9067321|title=When checked against the CBGB women's room graffiti|access-date=January 28, 2019|archive-date=February 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206003823/https://api.intentiq.com/profiles_engine/ProfilesEngineServlet?at=39&mi=10&dpi=793790479&pt=17&dpn=1&jsver=5.09&iiqidtype=2&iiqpcid=bfc59f08-faef-4060-a5b8-5487ce0c117a&iiqpciddate=1675643903787&iiqcallcount=0&iiqfailcount=0&iiqnodata=false&iiqlocalstorageenabled=true&tsrnd=183_1675643903788&fbp=3488735648&cttl=43200000&rrtt=0&dud=0&abtg=A&iiqppcc=0&ref=genius.com|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Talking Heads]] mention CBGB in the song "[[Life During Wartime (song)|Life During Wartime]]", "This ain't no [[Mudd Club]], or C.B.G.B."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genius.com/1407324|title=This ain't no Mudd Club, or C.B.G.B.|access-date=November 1, 2022|archive-date=February 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206003823/https://api.intentiq.com/profiles_engine/ProfilesEngineServlet?at=39&mi=10&dpi=793790479&pt=17&dpn=1&jsver=5.09&iiqidtype=2&iiqpcid=f021b302-2752-4ef9-9dbb-91ffb8e63e72&iiqpciddate=1675643903814&iiqcallcount=0&iiqfailcount=0&iiqnodata=false&iiqlocalstorageenabled=true&tsrnd=417_1675643903815&fbp=3488735714&cttl=43200000&rrtt=0&dud=0&abtg=A&iiqppcc=0&ref=genius.com|url-status=live}}</ref> 
* [[The Heads (American band)|The Heads]], a spin-off band of Talking Heads, mentions CBGB in their song "Punk Lolita," off their album ''[[No Talking, Just Head]];'' "She was a punk Lolita, C.B.G.B. era."<ref>{{Citation |title=The Heads (Ft. Debbie Harry & Johnette Napolitano) – Punk Lolita |url=https://genius.com/The-heads-punk-lolita-lyrics |access-date=2023-11-13}}</ref>
* [[LCD Soundsystem|LCD Soundsystem's]] 2002 debut single "[[Losing My Edge]]" references CBGB, "I was the first guy playing Daft Punk to the rock kids. I played it at CBGB's. Everybody thought I was crazy".<ref>{{Citation |title=LCD Soundsystem – Losing My Edge |url=https://genius.com/Lcd-soundsystem-losing-my-edge-lyrics |access-date=2022-12-16 |archive-date=December 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221216021437/https://genius.com/Lcd-soundsystem-losing-my-edge-lyrics |url-status=live }}</ref>
* The season 19 ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "Love, Springfieldian Style" features a [[Punk_subculture|punk]] bar called CBGB, where it stands for "[[Comic Book Guy]]'s Bar".
* The bar is parodied in ''[[Mort the Dead Teenager]]'' as "ABCD's", where the main characters play in the third issue. Creators [[Larry Hama]] and [[Gary Hallgren]] performed at CBGB alongside other New York-area comic artists and writers with their band The K-Otics in the late 80s to early 90s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://joeguide.com/hama/musician.shtml|title=Larry Hama, Musician|website=JoeGuide.com|accessdate=August 12, 2024}}</ref>

==See also==
* ''[[CBGB's and the Birth of U.S. Punk]]''
* [[Max's Kansas City]]
* [[New wave music]]
* [[Punk rock]]

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==Notes==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book |last1=Beeber |first1=Steven Lee |title=The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk |date=2006 |publisher=Chicago Review Press |location=Chicago |isbn=978-1-55652-613-8}}
* {{cite book |editor-last=Brazis |editor-first=Tamar |title=CBGB & OMFUG: Thirty Years from the Home of Underground Rock |date=2005 |publisher=Harry N. Abrams |location=New York |isbn=978-0810957862}}
* {{cite book |last1=Heylin |first1=Clinton |author-link=Clinton Heylin |title=From the Velvets to the Voidoids:The birth of American Punk Rock |date=2005 |publisher=Chicago Review Press |location=Chicago |isbn=978-1556525759 |edition=Updated}}
* {{cite book |last1=Kozak |first1=Roman |title=This Ain't No Disco: The Story of CBGB |date=1988 |publisher=Faber and Faber |location=Boston |isbn=978-0571129560}}
*{{cite book |last1=McNeil |first1=Legs |last2=McCain |first2=Gillian |author-link1=Legs McNeil |author-link2=Gillian McCain |title=Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk |date=1996 |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |location=New York |isbn=978-0316881470}}
* {{cite book |last1=Robinson |first1=Lisa |author-link=Lisa Robinson |title=There Goes Gravity: A Life in Rock and Roll |date=2014 |publisher=Riverhead Books |location=New York |isbn=978-1594487149}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|CBGB}}
* {{Official website|http://www.cbgb.com|CBGB}} – official site
* {{Discogs label}}
* [http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/music/features/12023/index.html ''Between Punk Rock and a Hard Place''] article in ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]''
* [https://archive.today/20071008034302/http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/local_story_288220330.html ''CBGB Takes Final Bow Before Eviction''] on [[WCBS-TV]]

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