33. Wear Street (Fells Heights)

People might say that the era of the mega club is over, but those people have never been to Wear Street. The neon-lit strip hosts a dozen A-list clubs, five of which occupy more than 15,000 square feet each. The largest, Gauge, has over 10,000 square feet of dance floor alone. Each of the clubs caters to a distinct musical and nightlife subculture, including Latin, hip-hop, house, country and Top 40. As well, one of the mega-clubs is branded distinctly as gay, making nightlife options more than just a simple choice of musical genre. Wear Street is a traffic nightmare but a clubber’s wonderland from Thursday through Sunday, and well policed by the city, which charges nightclubs an additional fee for their liquor licenses.

Background

Hip neighborhoods change almost overnight, but with the money that’s been poured into Wear Street’s facades and interiors over the past nine years, the place has at least a good decade left in it.

Alternative Name(s)

Nightclub Circuit

Type

District

Location under

New Castle