NYC Music Club City Winery Must Move to Make Way for Disney
Matisyahu performs at City Winery in 2016.
Photographer: Al Pereira/Getty ImagesCity Winery, the Manhattan music club that helped fill a gap created by the closing of the Bottom Line, CBGB and other pop and rock music venues, is looking for another location after Walt Disney Co. bought the block that includes its 155 Varick St. home.
The 30,000-square-foot (2,800-square-meter) club, which hosts Buster Poindexter this summer, is part of the 4 Hudson Square site for which Disney bought the development rights this week from Trinity Church Real Estate to build its New York headquarters. The company sold most of the ABC network’s longtime compound on and around West 66th Street on the Upper West Side to Silverstein Properties Inc. and intends to lease it back for the time it will take to build its new headquarters.