ABSTRACT
In this short chapter, I introduce the institutional matrix and administrative procedures within which amendments and enforcements of the cabaret law have been carried out in NYC. I delineate what institutions and organizations have been involved in amending and enforcing the cabaret law, and to what effects. This information will help to contextualize legal and political struggles that have been unraveling since the 1970s over the cabaret law and nightlife in the city, and the unequal power relations that have taken place between different actors involved in these struggles.
