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Flatiron Nightclub Duvet Shut Down
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Jen Chung
Published Dec 5, 2009
Modified Dec 5, 2009
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After reports that a bouncer was arrested for raping an intoxicated customer in one of its bathroom, the nighclub Duvet, aka Club Climax, on West 21st Street off Broadway was shut down. According to the Post, the State Liquor Authority made the decision because, per sources, the club never should have hired the suspect, Hunter Dupree, who is an ex-con. The Post adds that the club "had been hit with numerous SLA violations but stayed open through a quirk in state law -- even after its liquor license was not renewed in November 2004" and that "Cops were summoned to the club 42 times in the past two years, including a Jan. 21, 2009, incident in which a female patron reported being robbed at gunpoint." Back in 2007, a man was stabbed to death outside the club.
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