After months of financial struggle, Park Slope’s famed jazz club, Puppet’s Jazz Bar, might open its doors for the last time this evening.
Even despite a community bailout last summer – where $21,000 was raised to help keep the venue open – owners say that the Fifth Avenue music venue just can’t keep afloat.
“People simply have less money to spend, and so we are making less money. We are getting people through our doors less often, and when they come they are spending, on average, half of what they used to,” said co-owner Martin Fagin.
Tonight Fagin and co-owner Jamie Affoumado will host what could be one last blowout jazz performance, in hopes of raising enough funds to keep the doors open a little longer. Local jazz staples such as Arturo O’Farrill, Alex Blake, Randy Johnston, John McNeil and more are set to perform.
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