And hopefully a few more to come.

Harif GuzmanHG: I'm trying to change the image of the place, I'm sure there will be a couple more of those, but basically all the events I have now are from 6-9, and I try to do the right guest list for the event. Whereas before it was just a free for all kind of situation. Now I want to brand it as an arts club, and I want people to take this seriously, and the people that show here seriously. I heard someone broke a window here recently... HG: I wasn't here for that, but yeah it was just some young artists that were having a dispute. It was an accident. Anytime you work with a lot of talented people, you have to understand that they're not all well behaved. And they are some young kids. That's just life, I'm sure we've all broken some windows by accident. A lot of the kids I'm helping out that are from Harlem, from the Bronx, from Brooklyn, they come from very poor families, and they need help. That's basically why I started the arts club, a place for young emerging artists that need the help, and mentorship of people that have money and wealth and that can mentor these kids, these young adults into a scene or some sort of elevation where they can acquire jobs or feel good about themselves, that they're doing something. I think that providing a place for them to go downtown...theres no place to go since they've shut down all the cool dive bars, they shut down Max Fish, opened up but got shut down for a while, they shut down Mars Bar, they shut down Milady's, they shut down all the cool pubs. They shut down Don Hills.
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