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Elephas

210-22 Northern Boulevard
Bayside, Queens, New York

Elephas Disco Early Disco in the New York City boro of Queens. One of its early resident DJs was Jimmy Yu who later moved to the Miami, Florida area.

It also had a sister club Elephas North.

The scan of the Elephas admission ticket submitted by Charlie G.

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COMMENTS ON THIS DISCO / DISCOTHEQUE / NIGHTCLUB

Very classy disco.Best sound system I ever heard. I really loved this place.

Posted by: ZbarMy | Jun 12, 05 | 10:20 am

i was the dj at elephas 1974-81 untill the day it closed back then it was the place to go people from queens brooklyn long island we had a great crowd.

Posted by: anthony cintorino | Oct 30, 05 | 1:40 pm

Great dancers. I was there the night Son of Sam shot a guy outside.

Posted by: freerad | Nov 30, 05 | 7:47 am

OOOOOH Elephas!! I used to go every Friday and Saturday night back in the early 80's. It was a hot neighborhood club back in the day - drinking age back then was only 18, so most of the kids hanging out were anywhere from 17-21. I used to get wasted out of my mind on Long Island Ice Teas, while wearing my white capezio shoes!! LOL

Posted by: Barb | Mar 29, 06 | 6:02 am

Barb you must be from long island so maybe you can remember a club named la tek .I can not remember where it was located.I went a couple of times but never left in the same condition as i went in.

Posted by: joeskull | Jul 05, 06 | 7:53 am

My grandmother used to live near there and I remember a very long time ago we'd drive by on Northern Blvd and the building was a restaurant or diner or something and then it became a disco. Of course I remember it to be the place where "Son of Sam" shot one of his victims. I was 17 that summer.

Posted by: JohnD | Jul 18, 06 | 8:36 am

I WAS THERE THAT NITE TOO. NOW I WORK FOR THE BROTHER OF ONE OF THE BOUNCERS THAT WORKED THERE. THE CLUB YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT WAS LA'TIQUE, IT WAS IN LEVITTOWN.

Posted by: maria | Feb 19, 07 | 2:15 pm

I was there the night Elvis died and the DJ played Jailhouse Rock and everyone got on the dancefloor doing Elvis impersonations.

Posted by: freerad | Feb 19, 07 | 4:18 pm

What was the name of the joint
on Bell Blvd next to the Bayside movies?

Posted by: joey | Apr 06, 07 | 4:53 am

The joint on Bell Blvd by the movies was the Gunn Club, later it became Raw, now it is some Chinese joint.

Posted by: David Berkowitz | Jul 30, 07 | 5:09 pm

Gunn Club was on (heavy metal) nights- Camouflage was new wave night, I forget other nights' names

Posted by: BNyc | Aug 01, 07 | 1:02 pm

Back in the day..the Gunn Club aka Avanti on disco nights had some cool ocal bands...White Trash, Batalion and my favorite R.A. Roller among others. It was a good time.

Posted by: Marc | Nov 18, 07 | 5:53 pm

Yeah I was one of the many DJ's during that time...
Michael Hacker, Anthony Cintorino, Ted Chang

I worked at Jerry's over by the LIE (495) Fresh Meadows Queens funny that now I googled this after all the years gone by... What a blast from the past. I remember that night good thing I missed it.

LOL well feel free to look me up... www.digerati-master.com

Posted by: Derrick James Tempro | Jan 06, 08 | 7:12 pm

I went to Elephas and was there the night Son of Sam AKA David Berkowitz was caught. Our pic sdated Michael djHacker, who I believe wa one of the best dj's in NYC in the 80's. He was just as good as Larry L of the GARAGE in Manhattan.

Posted by: Brenda Scibelli | Jan 16, 08 | 3:11 pm

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