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public records

233 Butler St, Brooklyn, NY 11217

holds 300 · publicrecords.nyc · 6,300 following on RA

766 listings across 653 nights · since Aug 2023 · 32 announced, through Sun 29 Nov

Public Records is a multi-faceted music and social space built within a historic building on the Gowanus Canal. The building features 3 rooms— a hi-fi record bar showcasing rare record collectors alongside a thoughtfully conceived food and beverage menu, an intimate performance space featuring both live acts and vinyl leaning DJs with a highly ambitious sound system, and an all-day vegan café and magazine shop. Both the bar and sound room feature custom sound systems designed in collaboration between Devon Turnbull of OJAS and Jason Ojeda, formerly of VOID. Each room features custom built Isonoe rotary mixers. Acoustic design was overseen by international engineering firm ARUP. Lighting was designed and built by Brooklyn based Nitemind. Music programming is helmed by partner and acclaimed artist / producer Francis Harris, founder of local record labels Scissor & Thread and Kingdoms. Hospitality is overseen by partner Erik VanderWal, formerly with Keith McNally and Think Food Group. Design and creative direction is overseen by partner Shane Davis, founder of hospitality strategy firm whitebox collective.

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What’s on 32 listings across 26 nights

busiest ahead · Dope Jams Halloween Ball / Turtle Bugg, 4AM NYC / GE-OLOGY — Sat 31 Oct · 244 going

23 more, through Sun 29 Nov

Every announced night here that states a minimum age says 21+ — 32 of 32 state one. Counts are Resident Advisor's, relayed.

How the room runs

openFridays and Saturdays every weekThursdays and Sundays most weeksMondays and Wednesdays rarelynever a Tuesday
doors11pm Fridays (13 of 13) and Saturdays (14 of 17) · 10pm Thursdays (6 of 10) · 3pm Sundays (12 of 14)
cost15-20 most nights · 51 of the 51 Sunday listings carry no price at all · 8 of the 8 Wednesday listings carry no price at all · 45 of the 45 Thursday listings carry no price at all · 57 of the 57 Friday listings carry no price at all · 61 of the 62 Saturday listings carry no price at all
drawSaturday 290 · Friday 252 · Sunday 198 · Wednesday 140 · Thursday 99 (the typical headline draw for each weekday over the past year: every night counted once, at its biggest listing, and the middle night taken; Mondays have run three times, too few to say)
seriesThe Nursery 22 Sundays · Sundays In The Atrium 11 Sundays · Azadi 4 Thursdays · Ballet 4 Wednesdays (the four biggest of 6 series here, on 41 of the 226 listings in the last year)
booked bythe house, on 742 of 766 listings · then Revival_nyc (8), Bêvèrãgęš (7), dweller (6) (42 accounts have filed here)

Fixed words, no estimates: every week is 4826, some weeks 9base beside them; a weekday with fewer than 8 listings is computed and then refused. Everything on these lines is the last twelve months, except who books it, which is the whole record.

House rules 10 lines this room repeats, grouped

safer space 5

  • Public Records aims to provide a safer space.46 of 49
  • We reject all forms of discrimination, including racism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, sexism, and other aggressive behavior.46 of 49
  • Consent is paramount.46 of 49
  • Please exist with respect for yourself and those around you.46 of 49
  • Anyone found in violation of our rules or safer space policy will be removed from the venue.46 of 49
the door — 4 lines
  • Tickets may be available at the door based on capacity.46 of 49
  • A ticket does not guarantee entry; Public Records reserves the right to deny entry to guests that appear intoxicated or do not meet the dress code.46 of 49
  • All large bags and coats must be checked.46 of 49
  • Doors close one hour before end time.46 of 49
1 more line it repeats which none of these headings recognise
  • To share feedback about an incident, please email hello@publicrecords.nyc or alert a member of our team.46 of 49

Quoted exactly, from the 49 listings of this room's own that carry a write-up. A line prints when the room repeats it on at least half of them; the figure beside it is how many. Groups are keyword-matched, in one fixed order, and a line the keywords do not recognise keeps the company of the line above it or falls to the last group, which is printed and is not called a rule.

The cast 275 names billed three nights or more, of 1,570 in all

267 more, three nights or more each

the sounds these names run in 659 of 3,145 bookings sit in a named crowd

  • Million Goods house heads110 bookings22 names
  • Black Flamingo house circuit87 bookings25 names
  • Nowadays leftfield programming44 bookings22 names
  • Good Room disco heads36 bookings16 names
  • dweller Black techno network35 bookings19 names
  • Sustain-Release Nowadays axis24 bookings14 names
  • Loft-lineage NYC house23 bookings7 names
  • Silence Please listening-bar selectors21 bookings9 names
  • Refuge Worldwide radio crowd20 bookings4 names
  • Tresor and Atonal headliners18 bookings12 names
  • Basement and Berghain techno18 bookings13 names
  • RSO peak-time techno15 bookings8 names
  • Xpizza warehouse techno11 bookings8 names
  • 8 Ball radio crowd10 bookings7 names
  • deconstructed Latin club10 bookings5 names

circles, not sounds

  • Razor-N-Tape disco edits35 bookings12 names
  • Laylit SWANA club night13 bookings8 names

A crowd is a group of artists often booked in the same circles. Circles of people are listed separately from sounds.

Every night it has held 734 listings across 627 nights

2026 — 184 listings
2025 — 227 listings
2024 — 215 listings
2023 — 108 listings

Every listing this room has held, newest first, each one a link to its own night. The names are whoever was billed, first three by bill order; the account is whoever filed the listing. 32 announced nights are in What's on above, not here.

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Ordered by how much of either room's cast the two share, so the city's biggest room does not head every list.

Related means rooms this room's regulars also keep coming back to — not rooms that feel alike. A regular is somebody billed here on three nights or more.

The listings, the counts of them and every figure derived from them are our own record of what Resident Advisor published. Going-counts and genre tags are Resident Advisor's, relayed. Titles, prices and house rules are the promoters' own words, quoted exactly. The address, capacity, phone, website, follower count and description are Resident Advisor's venue page. Crowd names are ours. Nothing on this page was written for it.