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On December 29, 1996, two days before Regas Christou was set to open The Church, his nightclub inside the 132-year-old St. Mark’s Church at the corner of 12th Avenue and Lincoln Street, a bartender told him the roof was on fire. Christou headed upstairs from the basement, heard a crackling noise and saw the flames. He says a roofer had accidentally started the fire.
“We go up to the roof, and the guy's standing over it, trying to put it out with his shirt,” Christou says. “We almost threw him off the roof. I was so pissed off.”
“We go up to the roof, and the guy's standing over it, trying to put it out with his shirt,” Christou says. “We almost threw him off the roof. I was so pissed off.”