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    NYPD shuts down secret underground nightclub that resembled prohibition-style gathering
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    Police busted nearly 150 people at a party inside an unlicensed club inside a warehouse in Queens on Saturday, eerily resembling a scene straight out of America’s first war on drugs—the prohibition, Your Content has learned.

    Around 1:40 a.m. deputy sheriffs found a large group of people inside the warehouse, located on 11-33 Irving Ave. in Ridgewood.

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    The occupants were in violation of emergency orders, and the club had no liquor license as well as various health code violations, a blocked entrance, and no certificate of occupancy, reports ABC7NY.

    Three people were charged with various misdemeanors.

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