clubprincess

Selling to Hartford honcho. April 13, 2001 -- EXCLUSIVE Selling to Hartford honcho.Nightlife king Peter Gatien is selling Limelight to a controversial Connecticut club owner whose properties also face allegations of rampant drug dealing and deadly overdoses. Limelight is under contract for sale for $3.4 million to David Squillante of Hartford, who, with partner Jonathan Peters - a club DJ - has already put a non-refundable $300,000 down payment in escrow, The Post has learned. Squillante and Peters intend to sign a 28-year lease on the property - a 19th-century church on Sixth Avenue - and convert it into a 1,500-capacity dance bar and 125-seat restaurant called Worship, according to an investor prospectus. Gatien hopes the deal will be clinched by Memorial Day, along with the separate sale of his other Manhattan club, Tunnel, to someone else, his lawyer, Alan Klinger, said yesterday. But while regulators have been eager to see Gatien leave the nightclub business - dogging him with drug investigations, nuisance-abatement proceedings and liquor-license hearings since the mid-'90s - they may find little comfort in his successor at Limelight. Squillante's two clubs in Hartford - the Velvet Night Club bar and the after-hours club System - were padlocked for a week in January on allegations employees ignored open drug dealing on the dance floors. The clubs were allowed to reopen only after upping security and agreeing to uniformed police monitoring, but they remain under investigation, said prosecutor Brian Austin Jr. of the Connecticut state attorney's office. Gatien's Tunnel club is currently facing up to a year's closing under a city nuisance-abatement action that is almost identical to Connecticut's prosecution of Squillante's clubs. Hartford police are also investigating the overdose death of Jason Kratt, 25, of Columbia, Conn., after a night of partying at System - in another striking similarity between Squillante and Gatien, where an 18-year-old Tunnel patron suffered a fatal overdose in 1999. "We've had numerous other overdoses that wound up in the hospital, along with numerous sexual assaults," said Hartford Police Sgt. Franco Sanzo. Like Gatien - whose landlords claim his two Manhattan clubs are behind more than $2 million in rent - Squillante also has financial problems. Velvet has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to court documents. "There are some similarities there, that's for sure," Austin noted of Gatien and Squillante. Squillante's partner, Jonathan Peters, is a DJ who frequently spins Saturday nights at Sound Factory, another Manhattan club haunted by drug allegations. "We've been negotiating with lawyers and accountants, and we've asked whether they thought there would be any problems getting a liquor license, and they said no," Klinger said. Squillante and his lawyers did not return phone calls. NY Post ------------------ *Get the f*k off my dance floor.. *

has anybody been going to exit on fridays?? ------------------ *Get the f*k off my dance floor.. *

i heard there's a party tonite at EXIT?? anyone else going? ------------------ *Get the f*k off my dance floor.. *

i'll be staying in NY this weekend too.. i might even have to work! but i'm gonna make the best of it i guess ------------------ *Get the f*k off my dance floor.. *

lol the forgotten borogh.. we finally get some credit.. i HATE staten island.. mayb b/c i'm a girl amd 90% of the girls out here are sluts..but our guys r pretty dope lolol ------------------ *Get the f*k off my dance floor.. *

i agree w/ KITTY the coat check off of the main dance floor...3:30-4ish?? hehe this should b fun! ------------------ *Get the f*k off my dance floor.. *

HEY people! i'm kinda new to this board but i still wanna meet up anyways =) lol 2:00 at the main bar?? ------------------ *Get the f*k off my dance floor.. *

NOO u guys have it all mixed up ... it was a kid that went to new dorp & the health teacher told the whole school about the OJ kid & the othe kid who thinks hes inspecter guy & used his shoe as a phone.. besides those kids are now in like there 30's but there is really a kid from staten island who i saw w/ my own eyes who runs around thinking he's the "white ranger" i think its the dump on si that makes all these ppl so fuked up... ------------------ *Get the f*k off my dance floor.. * [This message has been edited by clubprincess (edited 08-11-2000).]

wassup ppl? i'm from staten island too .. don't u hate it hear??i do ------------------ *Get the f*k off my dance floor.. *

i LOVE sound factory.. i like fridays better ..its not so crowded but saturdays are amazeing..but i still love fridays... the whole SF sceane in like no other<33 .. the music is good & so is the crowd ... u HAVE to go to SF at least once! ------------------ *Get the f*k off my dance floor.. *

i love factory!! fridays r so much fun too just go ur self u don't have to get dresses up , the music is pretty good.. it gets a lil crowded but around 3-4 its good.. u should try it i'll b there!haha ------------------ *Get the f*k off my dance floor.. *

anybodyelse going.. ------------------ *Get the f*k off my dance floor.. *

hey i'm from si too.. i hate it here.. SF fridays..limelight saturdays tunnel aug 19..MEET UP?? i use to live in GC ------------------ *Get the f*k off my dance floor.. *

Pat Benetan - We belong Whitney & DebraSame script diff cast..jp mix.. of course! Everybody-?? Somewhere over the rainbow-?? (^best if heard at SF!!!) & can't forget... CORBETT vs ST PATRICK!! ------------------ *Get the f*k off my dance floor..SF <3 *

SOUND FACTORY!!! exit is way tooo crowded & music is HORRIBLE sf had THE BEST CROWD.. well 'cept for mayb twilo (ive never been there..) ------------------ *Get the f*k off my dance floor..SF <3 *