“Essentially it’s like a Friday or Saturday night, at a bar in Bushwick, there’s a few people dancing and people drinking cocktails, other than that it seems like a very standard night,” recalls John Barclay, one of the co-founders of the Bossa Nova Civic Club, along with the newer Paragon. “Out of nowhere, there’s about a dozen agents from different city and state agencies that raid the place all at once,” he remembers.