CBGB May Reopen as an Airport Restaurant

There are very few venues that will ever hold the kind of cache CBGB had. It was dirty, dark and often smelly. It was also the thing of legends. And it might be coming back.

Sort of.

CBGB closed in September of 2006, but all the remaining property and trademarks have apparently been sold to a holding company. According to Gothamist, the owners of the CBGB name are going to be opening a restaurant with the CBGB moniker on it.

In Newark Airport.

In the listed news article, some prices listed were "$9 deviled eggs, an $11.50 wedge salad, and a $14 cheeseburger."

Are you kidding me? Is that what this society has come to?!? CBGB was ANYTHING but upscale. I was only there once, but it was a memorable experience. You walked in and you KNEW you were standing on hallowed ground, a place where music scenes were born and music legends performed. Which is funny, because hallowed ground isn't something I think the people who played there respected much.

A complicated feeling, to be sure.

Regardless, the memory of CBGB deserves better than a layover eatery serving overpriced deviled eggs. That's just wrong.