ABSTRACT
The crackdown of the mid-eighties was a graver and more destructive period in the nightclub scene than most people realize. The reason for that was that it was a negative deflection in a diminishing market…. It ended the lower-priced nightclub in New York. You still have the freebie-the mere dive. But the sort of club that the West End was an excellent representative of disappeared and hasn’t returned. The West End is not doing well now, and its jazz policy may not make it.
