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CLUB PURGATORIO

Feel free to insert your own joke about the frightfulness of New York night life, but the owners of the Box, the downtown club known for its extravagant, lascivious stage shows, may have the last laugh.

For the first time, Simon Hammerstein and Randy Weiner, partners in the Box, have opened a haunted house: a 15,000-square-foot, three-story, adults-only haunted house, in the old China Club in Midtown. The idea, Mr. Weiner said on a preopening tour last week, was to amp up the traditional Halloween experience. (Read more…)