{"id":3794,"date":"2025-10-15T18:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/3794\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:23:08","slug":"avant-gardner-requests-demolition-permit-for-brooklyn-mirage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/3794\/","title":{"rendered":"Avant Gardner requests demolition permit for Brooklyn Mirage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The owners of the troubled Brooklyn Mirage concert venue have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/bankrupt-brooklyn-mirage-files-demolition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">asked for a demolition permit<\/a> to tear down the stage.<\/p>\n<p>Bankrupt operator <a href=\"https:\/\/therealdeal.com\/new-york\/2025\/10\/14\/brooklyn-mirage-files-to-demolish-bankrupt-venue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Avant Gardner requested the permit<\/a> on Oct. 10 to demolish the 32,000-square-foot temporary outdoor venue in East Williamsburg, real estate outlet The Real Deal reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the latest negative development for the Mirage, which debuted in 2015 as a pop-up venue and quickly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2018\/06\/18\/ladyland-festival-bringing-queer-artists-and-icons-to-brooklyn-in-celebration-of-pride-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">became one of the trendiest performance stages<\/a> in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The troubles began in 2023, when multiple people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2023\/08\/01\/missing-goldman-sachs-analyst-found-dead-in-newtown-creek-after-partying-at-brooklyn-mirage-club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">died after attending shows at the Mirage<\/a>. But they accelerated in May 2025, when the venue was denied the necessary opening permits by the city\u2019s Department of Buildings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Kim Petras performs onstage during her sold-out show at The Brooklyn Mirage in 2023.\" width=\"3000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-1718957026.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8557179\" \/>Kim Petras performs onstage during her sold-out show at The Brooklyn Mirage in 2023. (Santiago Felipe\/Getty Images for Kim Petras)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDOB had numerous objections to the performance space, both safety-related and technical in nature, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/dob-brooklyn-mirage-riddled-safety-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">prevented the project from being code-compliant<\/a> and safe enough to open for the public,\u201d a spokesperson told the Brooklyn Paper in August.<\/p>\n<p>Though Avant Gardner claimed the space would reopen during the summer, it never did. Instead, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/08\/04\/avant-gardner-brooklyn-mirage-bankruptcy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Avant Gardner filed for bankruptcy<\/a> in early August and is in the process of being sold, while all scheduled concerts at the Mirage were canceled or moved to Avant Gardner\u2019s other venues.<\/p>\n<p>Two other indoor concert venues at the same East Williamsburg site, the Great Hall and Kings Hall, have remained operational despite the issues at the neighboring Mirage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The owners of the troubled Brooklyn Mirage concert venue have asked for a demolition permit to tear down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,85,267,9,24,264,10,12,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-3794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-county","16":"tag-new-york-news","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794","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=3794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}