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CBGB, Punk Rock Venue Reopens a Newark Airport Restaurant
The grimy, sticky stages of CBGB & OMFUG, infamously known as the hangouts of iconic punk acts like The Ramones, Blondie and Talking Heads in New York City, appears to be reopening… albeit in a very different form than its ’70s counterpart.
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In a notable turn from its rebellious past, CBGB will join such eateries as Auntie Anne’s Pretzels, Jamba Juice and Manchu Wok at Newark Airport in January.
The owner of the CBGB brand declined to comment to Gothamist.
Spencer Platt/Getty Images CBGB, which stands for Country, Bluegrass and Blues, opened in 1973 by the late Hilly Kristal.
Now though, because its trademarks were “assigned to a holding company”, it’s now set to re-open as a burger restaurant inside Newark Airport in New Jersey. It closed for business in 2006.
While most CBGB fans would like to see a new club resurrect the name or even a chain ala the Hard Rock, what they are getting nearly sounds like a cruel joke.
CBGB L.A.B. will serve everything from $9.00 Disco Fries to a $42.00 Prime Rib, according to a menu posted online by East Orange, New Jersey radio station WFMU.
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Kristal died in 2007, and the following year designer John Varvatos turned the site into a retail store.