{"id":351850,"date":"2026-09-20T19:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351850\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T19:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:42:13","slug":"hip-nyc-venue-plastered-with-graffiti-when-it-nixes-brooklyn-event-and-promoter-cries-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351850\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip NYC venue plastered with graffiti when it nixes Brooklyn event and promoter cries ‘racism’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A hip Brooklyn venue popular with TikTokers was sprayed with graffiti last week when a promoter claimed it canceled his New York Fashion Week bash <\/a>there for \u201cracist\u201d reasons.<\/p>\n

But the event space fired back that it was forced to yank the fest \u2014 because of slower-than-molasses ticket sales.<\/p>\n

\"AThe Market Hotel is a popular music venue in Bushwick because of its second-story dance floor visible from the subway platform. Tiktok\/market.hotel<\/p>\n

The race-tinged tussle erupted on social media when event promoter NOAHH claimed the Market Hotel in hipster Bushwick put the kibosh on his Fashion Week-tied \u201cIn Tha Fest\u201d just hours before the party because it didn\u2019t want \u201cignorant black people\u201d in its space.<\/p>\n

The underground event was set to headline black rappers Percaso and EA TJ.<\/p>\n

\u201cMarket Hotel just called me and said they had a show last night with \u2018ignorant Black people\u2019 and don\u2019t want anymore there for the time being,\u201d wrote NOAHH, who is white, on Instagram on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cNever dealt with such racism.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then quickly moved the event to the nearby Hellow Meadow venue \u2014 but the discrimination allegations ignited anger throughout the music scene and inspired several hooligans to seek vengeance on the Market Hotel.<\/p>\n

Three goons dressed in black spray-painted the outside of the dance spot \u2014 made popular on social media for its second-story dance floor that faces the Myrtle-Broadway Station platform \u2014 with the words \u201cracist\u201d and \u201cf\u2013k you,\u201d according to security footage.<\/p>\n

But the Market Hotel vehemently denied the promoter\u2019s racial claims, saying \u201cIn Tha Fest\u201d was rebuffed because it only hawked 40 tickets for the 500-person-capacity venue.<\/p>\n

\"ThreeThree vandals allegedly sprayed graffiti at the Market Hotel over the racism allegations. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur general manager, who is a Black man, had a straightforward conversation with the promoter about the reality of the show: he hadn\u2019t sold enough tickets to justify the cost of putting the event in such a large room, and moving it somewhere with lower overhead simply made more financial sense for everyone involved,\u201d the venue said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt no point was race part of that conversation \u2026 Calling someone racist is a serious accusation and it shouldn\u2019t be thrown around simply because you\u2019re unhappy with a business decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

The manager, Maleek Brown, also personally called the discrimination allegations \u201ccrazy,\u201d<\/a> and revealed he was the one who cleaned up the graffiti calling him a racist.<\/p>\n

NOAHH circled back to apologize for setting off the vandals but still doubled down on his claims that Brown made the racist statements \u2014 and that the day-of shutdown was the second time the Market Hotel canceled on him.<\/p>\n

The venue tried to cancel a show back in August over low ticket sales but agreed to move forward after doubling the venue rental price, NOAHH claimed in a video<\/a> posted to Instagram.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know what I heard on that phone call,\u201d he wrote on X, referring to the conversation he had with Brown, while saying the situation had dissolved into a \u201che say she say\u201d situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did not know [Brown] or the color of his skin, all I heard was a voice & judged the person on the other side of the phone based on their words not their race\u201d<\/p>\n

Both NOAHH and the Market Hotel referred The Post to their social-media posts when reached for comment.<\/p>\n

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