{"id":418084,"date":"2017-10-31T11:44:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=418084"},"modified":"2017-10-31T11:44:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:44:59","slug":"city-set-to-repeal-racist-anti-dancing-cabaret-law-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=418084","title":{"rendered":"City Set to Repeal &#8216;Racist&#8217; Anti-Dancing Cabaret Law Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20171031\/civic-center\/cabaret-law-dancing-club-bar-venue-music-let-nyc-dance\">This post<\/a> was originally published on <a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20171031\/civic-center\/cabaret-law-dancing-club-bar-venue-music-let-nyc-dance\">this site<\/a>.   <a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20171031\/civic-center\/cabaret-law-dancing-club-bar-venue-music-let-nyc-dance\">Click here<\/a> to read the post and view byline and photo credits etc.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20171031\/civic-center\/cabaret-law-dancing-club-bar-venue-music-let-nyc-dance#\" class=\"js-modal media-modal not-active\" title=\"Manhattan Inn\"><img class=\"vital xs-xxxlarge\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/extralarge-6.jpg\" alt=\" A dance party inside the The Manhattan Inn, a Greenpoint venue that closed in 2016. \" \/><\/a> A dance party inside the The Manhattan Inn, a Greenpoint venue that closed in 2016. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20171031\/civic-center\/cabaret-law-dancing-club-bar-venue-music-let-nyc-dance#\" class=\"view-more pull-left dropup hide\" title=\" A dance party inside the The Manhattan Inn, a Greenpoint venue that closed in 2016. \">View Full Caption<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Courtesy David Andrako\/The Manhattan Inn<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK CITY&nbsp;&mdash; The city Tuesday is set to repeal a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20170620\/williamsburg\/cabaret-law-dancing-footloose-brooklyn-north-brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\">&nbsp;rarely enforced<\/a>&nbsp;Prohibition-era law that effectively made dancing at most bars, clubs and venues across the city illegal.<\/p>\n<p>The City Council is expected to vote Tuesday afternoon to repeal the <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/nyc-resources\/service\/2836\/cabaret-license\" target=\"_blank\">Cabaret Law<\/a>, which was crafted in 1926 to crack down on Harlem&#8217;s&nbsp;jazz clubs and has been decried by opponents&nbsp;as racist&nbsp;in its origins.<\/p>\n<p>Critics also charged that getting a cabaret license to permit dancing at a venue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post was originally published on this site. Click here to read the post and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":418085,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124717284],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418084"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418088,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418084\/revisions\/418088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/418085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}