{"id":354771,"date":"2026-09-23T16:54:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T16:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/354771\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T16:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T16:54:51","slug":"refuge-nycs-first-birthday-party-takes-over-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/354771\/","title":{"rendered":"Refuge NYC\u2019s First Birthday Party Takes Over the Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most first birthdays call for cake. <a href=\"https:\/\/refuge.nyc\/#\/events\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Refuge NYC<\/a> is celebrating with three days of dancing and a 12-hour DJ set, giving anyone who forgot to buy a present plenty of time to show up.<\/p>\n<p>The Brooklyn club will mark its first anniversary with a 72-hour, nonstop party from Friday, September 25, through Sunday, September 27. Deep Dish will open the weekend with a 12-hour set on Friday. By the time Brothers Macklovitch close it out on Sunday night, the dance floor will have seen two sunrises and probably several changes of shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s lineup features Refuge cofounders John DiMatteo and Craig \u201cShorty\u201d Bernabeu, along with Ragie Ban and special guests who have yet to be announced. Victor Calderone takes over for a sunrise set on Sunday, before Brothers Macklovitch (the sibling duo of A-Trak and Chromeo\u2019s Dave 1) bring the marathon to its finish.<\/p>\n<p>Refuge opened on Ten Eyck Street last year with an approach that sounds almost radical in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/nightlife\/best-clubs-in-nyc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York nightlife<\/a>: there&#8217;s no VIP section and no bottle service. DiMatteo, a longtime promoter, and Bernabeu, a sound engineer, built the 500-capacity club around extended sets and a custom four-point analogue sound system. The idea is to give DJs room to develop a set\u2014and give everyone on the floor the same place to hear it. According to the venue, its first year drew visitors from more than 1,300 cities in 73 countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For anyone curious about how a long night at Refuge sounds, the club has also launched a SoundCloud channel featuring live recordings. Its first upload is a seven-hour back-to-back set from Seth Troxler and Calderone, recorded during an unannounced after-hours session.<\/p>\n<p>The anniversary party runs September 25\u201327 at Refuge NYC, 366 Ten Eyck Street in Brooklyn. Check the club\u2019s website for set times, tickets and entry details before heading over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most first birthdays call for cake. Refuge NYC is celebrating with three days of dancing and a 12-hour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,4059,9,24,4060,2827,63],"class_list":["post-354771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-categories-nightlife","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news-nightlife","tag-nightlife","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354771","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=354771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}