Green Club Galapagos Opens in Brooklyn
By Tom Acitelli
August 5, 2008 | 5:23 p.m
Environmentally friendly performance club Galapagos Art Space opens officially tonight at 7 at 16 Main Steet in Brooklyn.
The Observer's Gillian Reagan wrote recently about the whole green nightlife movement:
...[W]ith gas prices soaring and the words “energy crisis” tumbling off even the most un-Gore-like lips, the whole project of greening up nightlife seems perfectly prescient. The typical club—with its blasting sound systems, sweat-cooling air-conditioners and lights blazing three nights a week—gobbles up 150 times more energy than a four-person family every year, according to Enviu, a Netherlands-based, environmental nonprofit group. In New York City, dance spots tend to be open five to six days a week, making their consumption that much higher. And consider the thousands of bottle-service remnants and beer cans to recycle, cocktail napkins to toss and thousands of toilets flushing the night’s debauchery away. We may never see the end of tacky string-tie tops and gold chains, but our clubs, at least, can get makeovers.
- More:
- Real Estate |
- Brooklyn |
- green nightlife |
- Retail |
- The Real Estate



David Letterman's Alleged Blackmailer Headed to Court; Sources Say Halderman Intent on Trial, Raising Money For Defense
Scotiabank Leaving Lower Manhattan?
Box Office Breakdown: No Lumps of Coal for Christmas, Precious Explodes