• Basic NYC

  Sullivan Room, 218 Sullivan St., nr. W. 3rd St.; basicnyc.com

  Several Saturdays a month at the Sullivan Room are all about the beats, with house-music devotees dressed in jeans and sneakers for maximum mobility and a dance floor that doesn’t start rolling until after 1 a.m. A clean sound system enhances the big bass-lines, hypnotic grooves, dubby tracks, and solid percussion favored by residents (and husband-and-wife team) Sleepy & Boo, who often close for big names like Derrick Carter, Satoshi Tomiie, and Green Velvet.

From the 2009 Best of New York issue of New York Magazine