The bright lights of the Soho hotspot where rappers Chris Brown and Drake started a bottle-service brawl last summer will go dark for 10 days starting September 1.
An appeals court ordered sister clubs W.i.P. and Greenhouse on Varick Street to turn off the taps this fall, after a lower court judge slapped the celeb-magnate venue with a $10,000 fine and liquor license suspension for a spate of violations that ended with the fracas over Rihanna over a year ago.
Justice Roslyn Richter of the Appellate Division in Manhattan quietly signed the order on July 24. Club owners will also have to pay a $10,000 fine.
In an application to the higher court, the club’s attorney argued that a temporary shutdown would put his client “out of business.”
A rep for the club — owned by NBA shooting guard Larry Hughes and veteran scenester Barry Mullineaux — did not immediately comment on the pending closure.
The owners had sued the State Liquor Authority, which tried to permanently yank their license after the A-list fight that sparked at least a half dozen lawsuit against the venue.
After a year-long appeals process, they received the lesser penalties.