NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) --Get out the white suit and polyester shirt because disco is back in Brooklyn ... most iconic scenes were filmed. The famed "2001 Odyssey" in Bay Ridge, which is now ...

In the last few years, interest in this pre-disco era of New York nightlife—during which the Loft and similar clubs like the Sanctuary and the Gallery thrived—has grown dramatically.

It was actually illegal until 1971 in New York City for two men to dance with one another, so the new form of disco dancing in crowds rather than couples had a big impact for New York’s gay scene.