Swaddle Yourself in Heady Dance Floor Vibes at Earthly Delights

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Earthly Delights, the intimate nightclub that opened last August, is a quick walk from Ridgewood's Myrtle-Wyckoff stop, but step through its front doors and climb to its second floor and you feel that you're somewhere else entirely—the belly of a whale, or the body cavity of a giant, or in an alien spacecraft's antechamber. (Earthly Delights's official-unofficial name? The "womb room.") On any given night, you might find dancers upstairs cavorting to Afrobeats, slithering and bouncing to techno, or swaying to ambient, while downstairs, people chill out, grab a drink, or order something to eat from the kitchen that's open until an hour before the party shuts down.

In short, if you're looking to be swaddled in heady dance floor vibes, Earthly Delights is the spot for you. 

Theresa Serrian and Luke Bonner, two of Earthly Delights's cofounders, told Hell Gate that they set out to create the kind of club they want to dance in—somewhere accessible, inclusive, and, above all, comfortable. (Looming large in both of their minds: the late-2000s, early-2010s era when the scene was, in Serrian's words, "a lot seedier for women.") The two have known each other since they were teenagers, and have been going out together in New York City for as long as they've been friends, standing in line for parties at the Meatpacking District in Manhattan, then following the city's electronic music scene as it shifted into Williamsburg warehouses and then Bushwick nightclubs, before finally landing their own spot in Ridgewood. While in college, Serrian, who DJs under her last name, started working as party promoter for DIY venues and even, briefly, Webster Hall, before starting her own party series Jamais Vu; Bonner, a born-and-raised New Yorker, opened another venue, the live music club Wild Birds, in 2020 before it closed its doors in 2022.