New York Daily News

You can’t bottle us up — club

- BYBARBARA ROSS

GREENHOUSE, the sister club to the SoHo joint where Chris Brown and Drake duked it out with broken bottles, is going to court Friday to fight for its life.

Club owners will appear before Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Wright to challenge the NYPD’s decision to shut them down after the brawl that injured eight, including NBA star Tony Parker.

Tom Shanahan, an attorney for Greenhouse and the club WiP, where the fight took place, said more than 300 jobs will vanish if the owners can’t persuade the judge to let them reopen.

He noted there are scores of additional jobs at stake at liquor, beverage, linen, food, security and other firms that do business with Greenhouse, one of the busiest nightclubs in the city.

“These are career profession­als in the city’s nightlife culture. They believe Greenhouse is worth fighting for. In fact, this is a fight for the responsibl­e nightlife industry as a whole,” Shanahan said Thursday in the club’s first public comments.

The owners are expected to argue that the public image of Greenhouse as a violent venue is distorted.

The NYS Liquor Authority earlier this week suspended Greenhouse’s liquor license pending a resolution of the city’s charges against the club and an administra­tive hearing by the SLA on July 11.

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