Now the unusual structure -- a 460-foot-long garage whose origins reflect a Civil War-era height restriction -- is largely demolished.
While Bordeaux is known for making perfumed, restrained, food-friendly wines that are reasonably alcoholic and capable of long aging, garage wines are known for being intense, higher in alcohol, ready to drink and, for some palates, too brash for pairing with most foods.
Before long, UK garage became known as a violent, thuggish MC genre, all "gats", drug deals and raves cancelled amid media-fuelled paranoia: culminating in the ridiculous incident in May 2001 when So Solid Crew's Neutrino shot himself in the leg outside a London club.
There is more at stake here than a homely 50-foot-long brick garage that once doubled as a Pentecostal church but is now open to the sky.
The city recently signed a license agreement to allow Shamrock Stables to move into a long-vacant garage at 522 West 45th Street in mid-December while it repairs the F.D.R. Drive at 61st Street, where Shamrock has spent the last 30 years, said Denise Collins, a spokeswomen for the Department of Citywide Administrative Services.
For this show, their guest will be Peter Zaremba, the Fleshtones' long-running garage-rock connoisseur and belter.
Not long after, the garage collapsed.
The second floor of this garage, long deemed too weak to support vehicles, has become a gallery of sorts, home to hundreds and hundreds of paintings, photographs, posters and objects, neatly framed and mounted on the walls.
The DJs played awful music all night long, the UK garage section they promised consisted of "Gotta Get Thru This" and not much else.
I bought a record called Purple Pills - a collection of long-forgotten British garage acts from the 1960s, and replaced my cassettes of Teenage Fanclub's 13 and Neil Young's After the Gold Rush.
The secretive south Londoner's follow-up to 2006's critically acclaimed debut reaches deep into forgotten corners of dance music, coaxing snippets of long-lost UK garage back into the light and drenching them in late-night drizzle.
