Here's a piece by my old friend, Rob Urban, on New York's changing landscape...
Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- CBGB, the birthplace of punk rock on New York's Lower East Side, outlived Sid Vicious and all but one of the Ramones. It may not survive the city's real estate boom.
The club faces eviction Aug. 31 when its 12-year lease expires unless it can settle a dispute with the landlord, a homeless agency that runs a shelter upstairs. Owner Hilly Kristal, 74, has drawn support from Tommy Ramone, Blondie's Debbie Harry, the Talking Heads' David Byrne and E Street Band guitarist Steven van Zandt, who is trying to mediate.
Read the full article at Bloomberg.
