Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 12:00 a.m.

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Upscale clubs join city's social night life

YDN Staff Reporter
Published Friday, January 19, 2001

After Yale ushered in a new era of gentrification with stores such as Urban Outfitters, Gourmet Heaven and Au Bon Pain gracing Broadway's street fronts, two new club entrepreneurs have taken a page out of the University's playbook.

Alchemy/Lounge 215 and Risk recently replaced Gecko and Club Liquid and are opening their doors to an upscale urban clientele. The two clubs, across the street from each other on Crown Street, are optimistic they can create a club-central in New Haven different from the legacy of violence and crowded streets that plagued the area before.

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