Will the age of the hipster collapse with the demolition of CBGB?

Doubtful. Hipsters are like any other trend, plague, invasion, virus, etc. Sure, you can demolish their home/ spray bug repellant/ develop a cure/ mercilessly extinguish their presence, however, even if you do manage to vacate them, they’ll be back. They always will. They will either develop an immunity, evolve into an even stronger strand, or they will leave for awhile and then when the moments right they’ll… strike. Demolition has begun on the underground spawning joint for punk rock, CBGB. The club that closed in 2006, and whose former owner Hilly Kristal subsequently died a year later, has forced those that for all intents and purposes lived and breathed the punk life to find another venue for their suffocatingly-tight jean wrapped asses to carry on their mission. Kind of like hermit crabs. Once their home is no longer suitable, they scurry out into the daylight looking for a new place to reside and cram themselves in the moment they find one. There’s no wandering about, exploring the new neighborhood, grabbing a cup of java at the new Starbucks (which will most likely be the new inhabitants of 315 Bowery). So now the real question is whether or not the old inhabitants of one of NYC’s most iconic nightclubs will follow the club to its rumored Las Vegas destination or whether they’ll descend upon some other hole in the wall joint here and raise it up to the same prominence as their founding home. We’re guessing it will be the latter, we don’t think Las Vegas will be a good fit. Too much sunlight, too many tourists, too many ‘family-orientated’ shenanigans. Imagine Billy Joel performing at Excalibur. Shudder.