Bossa Nova Civic Club

"Like grapes fermenting into fine wine, you need to reach the proper alcohol level before you go to Bossanova in Bushwick. This is where you can have an electronic dance club experience that’s as close to your semester abroad in Berlin as you’re going to find in NYC. The dance floor is full of fog, so we honestly don’t know how large it is and who else is ever there. Maybe that’s for the best." - hannah albertine, nikko duren, bryan kim, matt tervooren

"The owners of Bossa Nova Civic Club, a nightclub on the ground floor of 1271 Myrtle Avenue, near Hart Street, discovered the upstairs fire, but not before it had become too large to contain. 'The building sustained significant damage and it’s safe to say we will be closed for a notable amount of time,' the venue shared in an Instagram story, according to Bushwick Daily." - Luke Fortney

"There are a lot of nightclubs in New York City, and almost all of them feel like dystopian worlds where Top 40 is the only music genre and your status is determined by how many bottles you own. But Bossa Nova is more like a dive bar that just happens to have a smoke machine and an extremely good sound system. It’s ideal for when you want to dance to electronic music in a dark room in Bushwick, and it’s typically too loud to have a conversation - which is fine, because you have plenty of conversations at work, in your apartment, and with people who apologize for bumping into you on the L train." - Bryan Kim, Matt Tervooren

"This is a dance club, but you won’t hear Top 40, and there won’t be a guest list. Depending on how late you get here, there might be a line and cover - but you shouldn’t let those things get between you and a night of dancing very poorly (but enthusiastically) on a dance floor that’s usually covered in fog. Disclaimer: this is closer to a dive bar than it is to a club in Manhattan, and the only music they play is electronic." - Bryan Kim