Silo

Silo is a 5,000-square-foot event and performance space at 90 Scott Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn, founded by Alex Neuhausen and Lilly Wolfson.

What started in a 600-square-foot converted auto garage in Williamsburg in 2012 (founders Alex Neuhausen and Lilly Wolfson throwing open-format parties they called Secret Loft) is now a 5,000-square-foot converted hangar at 90 Scott Avenue built from bare concrete and plumbing up. SILO opened in early 2023 with fourteen 400-watt beam lights, a 15-foot mezzanine for the tech crew, and a sound system designed around house and techno: music, as Neuhausen has put it, that Black artists developed in urban clubs long before commercial radio touched it. The same crew came with them: bartender turned bar manager, door guy turned security director. Beyond the weekend floor, SILO runs comedy nights, DJ workshops, film screenings, a dance music culture newsletter called Behind the Booth, and the free weekly Open Decks series. The question the space keeps asking is whether a nightclub can also be a neighborhood institution.