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Tiki Disco
Tiki Disco is a New York outdoor day party founded in 2010, when Andy Pry (then working at Roberta's in Bushwick) invited Eli Escobar and Lloyd (Lloydski) to DJ the pizzeria's backyard, before Bushwick had much of a party scene at all. Its bi-weekly Sunday-afternoon format, disco-and-house policy, and cookout looseness helped seed the Brooklyn day-party circuit; the crowd multiplied across its first summers until the party outgrew Roberta's patio and came to pack the Knockdown Center's courtyard, The Ruins. It now runs year-round, with a recurring Good Room home and pop-ups beyond New York, including Pride collaborations with Glitterbox and House of Yes.
Where it happened
Location approximate by nature, a roving party leaves no single pin
Rooms it touched
Knockdown Center
2013–present · Maspeth, Queens
Outdoor disco party; recurring at the Ruins backyard.
Good Room
2014–present · Greenpoint, Brooklyn
House of Yes
2007–present (three locations; current Bushwick warehouse since late 2015) · Bushwick, Brooklyn
Sources & further reading
- Tiki Disco, official site (tikidisco.com)
- 'On Point With: Eli Escobar', Thotyssey (2021)
- 'It feels new again: The Sunday day party is experiencing a resurgence', Brooklyn Magazine (2023)
- Tiki Disco event listings, Resident Advisor (ra.co)