Why Are These Clubs Closing? The Rent Is High, and the Alcohol Isn’t Flowing.
On a recent Friday night at Paragon, a two-level dance club that sits under train tracks in Bushwick, Brooklyn, partygoers jerked their bodies to the thump of rave music. In the less roomy basement, silhouettes swayed as the flashes of blue from the ceiling’s grid of LED lights revealed young faces. It was “def a…