Bushwick Now
Where the city's nightlife is being made tonight — the living cluster across Bushwick and Ridgewood.
Read the atlas by decade and the density crosses the river: by the 2020s, much of the city's nightlife lives along the Bushwick–Ridgewood corridor. This trail is a present-tense reading of the rooms still open.
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Bossa Nova Civic Club
2012–present (closed Jan–Oct 2022 after fire) · Bushwick, Brooklyn
The small-room anchor of the scene.
Active - 2
Mood Ring
2017–present · Bushwick, Brooklyn
Astrology-themed, queer-friendly floor.
Active - 3
Jupiter Disco
2016–present · Bushwick, Brooklyn
Cocktail bar and back-room dancefloor.
Active - 4
House of Yes
2007–present (three locations; current Bushwick warehouse since late 2015) · Bushwick, Brooklyn
Circus, theatre, and consent culture.
Active - 5
Nowadays
2015–present · Ridgewood, Queens
Indoor–outdoor, long-form dancing.
Active - 6
Paragon
2022–present (closed Apr–Jul 2025; reopened Aug 2025) · Bushwick / Bed-Stuy border, Brooklyn
A 2020s sound-system club.
Active - 7
Basement
2019–present · Maspeth, Queens
Dark, no-photos techno at Knockdown.
Active - 8
H0L0
2017–present · Ridgewood, Queens
Experimental, queer, underground.
Active