A recent compilation pays tribute to an Italian restaurant’s secret dance club on the Lower East Side that defied the Giuliani-era’s crack down on clubbingIn the early 2000s,when you wanted to dance in recent York, you did it where you wouldn’t be seen. Sometimes this meant in the basement of an Italian restaurant. Mangiami, or an notorious restaurant on the Lower East Side,was a mecca for recent York’s music industry insiders and disco devotees looking for a place to dance to splendid music at a time when draconic cabaret laws made it nearly impossible to do so legally.
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Source: theguardian.com