New Brooklyn Mirage ready for opening concert weekend but the ticket prices are giving ravers sticker shock
The successor to the ill-fated Brooklyn Mirage concert venue has announced its long-awaited opening weekend of dance music shows — and the ticket prices are causing more agony than ecstasy.Tickets at the newly-minted Pacha New York in East Williamsburg were going for a minimum of $150 for the June 21 weekend — a massive increase over the $20 starting price that the Mirage was known for.Ravers are even being asked to cough up $672 for “backstage dancing” VIP stubs to see British DJ Michael Bibi launch the first show.Those prices surge for the next day’s show, with general tickets to see South African disc jockey Black Coffee going for $177 — and an incredible $800 for VIP.For comparison, opening weekend tickets to see Sara Landry at the venue last year went for a base of just $56 despite the artist having more than double the amount of Spotify streams as Bibi.Landry’s sold-out show was ultimately moved to the Knockdown Center when the Mirage failed to obtain the proper permits to open its open-air arena in time, an issue that has seemingly been inherited by Pacha, which is a New York outlet of the famous Ibiza, Spain, party spot.The famed gargantuan indoor- and outdoor-venue was bought up by Pacha Group parent company FIVE Holdings with plans to entirely demolish and rebuild the stadium, but has been caught in a series of hang-ups that have prevented bulldozers from moving in.Pacha — whose parent company is based in Dubai and has clubs around the world — has promised that it will be open and ready in time for its June 20 opening weekend, and even offered coupons to those who lost their cash when the Mirage failed to open last summer.Neighbors raised concerns at a community meeting this week that the venue would filter drunk ravers through residential streets, but partiers seemed more upset with the “absurd” pricing Pacha was proposing.“The place has gotten bougie-fied.They are trying to be more of a club than an event space,” one former Mir...