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Save 'Goodbye Blue Monday' With Your Panhandled Pocket Change
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Lauren Evans
Published Mar 18, 2014
Modified Mar 18, 2014
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Ah, crowdfunding, the fiscal solution to everything from cash-strapped celebrity music videos to phantasmagorical birthday celebrations. Bushwick's Goodbye Blue Monday, which has apparently racked up enough city fines to have run itself out of business, has started a GoFundMe page aimed at staying afloat.
Brokelyn posits the space will be turned into a Red Mango, an baseless assertion that nevertheless sparked an entire screed on the war crime that is frozen yogurt shops, until I realized they were just being ironic. Now I have 260 words on yuppies, babies and how Pinkberry singlehandedly ruined this once fine country, but don't worry, that's in the can for another day.
Goodbye Blue Monday has currently collected around $2,500 toward its $7,000 goal, which, if unmet by the month's end, means lights off for the dive/performance space. It's a fitting terminus for a venue that offered free music most nights, cheap beer and a decent, if cluttered, backyard. Its patrons aren't exactly the type to keep wads of cash stored in the couch cushions, but hey, it's Bushwick—maybe Zosia Mamet will chip in to save a spot whose demise she ushered through her willingness to plop down $1 million on a building not so far away.
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