Dance-Rock Craze

I just came across two New York Times articles from the days of yore, each covering the nightlife of a previous decade.

First up in chronological order, we've got this article from 1980 in which those of us who were not old enough to party yet can learn about the "dance-rock craze" that was apparently sweeping the city at the time. Few of the clubs mentioned here are still around today, of course, with the exception of Irving Plaza, CBGB's, and The Bottom Line (is this one actually still with us?). A couple of things strike me as particularly interesting -- in 1980, nightlife did not exist so thoroughly downtown as it does today. The other is that like Warsaw in Greenpoint, Irving Plaza was a Polish hall that became a nightclub. Do the Poles have a thing for large gathering halls, then?

Moving on to the 1990s, this article discusses ten of 1995's "quintessential New York night spots." The fascinating tidbits are bursting from this one:

• The Bottom Line was a rock club and the Knitting Factory was a jazz club
• Even in 1995, uptown still clung to a bit of coolness
• The original Knitting Factory was described as located on the edge of Little Italy. (Today's 20-something response: What's Little Italy?)
• At Latin Quarter, an uptown club at Broadway and 96th, "a couple or a group share a seriously marked-up bottle of liquor (at $70 to $90)." That's like four drinks with tip today.
• There was a Sin-e back then, too, but it was on St. Mark's. At first I thought the recently shuttered one on the LES must have been named after the old one, but a quick Internet search told me that the old one is the same as the new one. Is this right?