{"id":288466,"date":"2026-07-06T20:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/288466\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T20:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:28:08","slug":"beloved-brooklyn-metal-bar-saint-vitus-to-reopen-in-bushwick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/288466\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved Brooklyn metal bar Saint Vitus to reopen in Bushwick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"6rnx1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saintvitusbar.com\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Saint Vitus<\/a>, the popular Greenpoint metal bar and performance space that suddenly shuttered in early 2024, has found a new home in Bushwick.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"cfkvl\">In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DaVYntZFOxs\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram video<\/a> published Friday, Saint Vitus announced they\u2019d now be located at 428 Troutman St.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"2gqmn\">The video lists fall 2026 as an opening target for the Bushwick location, the former home of the music venue <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/arts-entertainment\/photos-bushwicks-brooklyn-made-has-created-dream-oasis-musicians\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Made<\/a>, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynvegan.com\/bushwick-venue-brooklyn-made-has-shut-down\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">closed<\/a> after a little over three years in Feb. 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"b6kgn\">Since losing its physical space, Vitus has been booking and promoting shows across the boroughs under the name Vitus Presents. Members of the DIY music scene it nurtured since <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/food\/inside-saint-vitus-the-big-new-place-to-drink-eat-rock-out-in-greenpoint\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">opening in 2011<\/a> were devastated when the venue closed.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4bmld\">\u201cFor 15 years, Saint Vitus has been holding it down for underground music in New York City,\u201d Assemblymember Keith Powers said. \u201cAs someone who has spent many a night there, it\u2019s fantastic news that Vitus gets a new direction and new home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"cicsv\">Saint Vitus\u2019 2024 shuttering came after an individual repeatedly complained to the city that the venue did not have the correct paperwork to be hosting large shows, <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/beloved-brooklyn-bars-abrupt-shutdown-sends-bands-scrambling-to-book-new-venues\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gothamist reported<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"b8ib9\">Following a city inspection, Saint Vitus was found to be operating as an \u201cillegal eating and drinking establishment\u201d and had paperwork only for \u201ca commercial store and the storage of machinery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"6m6vt\">City officials <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/greenpoint-metal-bar-saint-vitus-is-closed-for-good\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">shut it down<\/a> in the middle of a hardcore band\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saint Vitus, the popular Greenpoint metal bar and performance space that suddenly shuttered in early 2024, has found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-288466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}