Nowadays: a guide to the Nonstop, the garden, and the longest party in New York

Nowadays sits on the Ridgewood-Bushwick border, on a quiet block where two converted warehouses meet a sprawling outdoor garden. The signature programme is the Nonstop: a Sunday party that opens at 3pm and runs straight through to Monday morning, with rotating residents holding the floor across the entire run.

The room opened in its current form in 2017, run by Justin Carter and Eamon Harkin, the same pair behind the Mister Saturday Night and Mister Sunday parties. The booking holds to a house, disco, leftfield and edits direction, with a deep bench of New York residents and a steady international visit list.

The door

Open door, ticketed in advance. The staff check ID, scan tickets, and run the consent policy briefing at the front. They will refuse anyone audibly drunk, anyone aggressive, and anyone who reads as combative at the door.

What works at the door:

• Tickets bought in advance through the Nowadays site or Resident Advisor.
• Arriving sober. The bar is part of the long night.
• Reading the consent and conduct policy before you go. The room takes it seriously.
• Knowing whether you came for the Nonstop, a Friday party, or a daytime garden event.
• ID. They check every time.

What does not:

• Photos at the door.
• Visible drunkenness on arrival.
• Loud group entrances. The block is residential.
• Trying to argue about the no-phone policy.

Nonstop sells out most weekends. The bigger Friday and Saturday bookings sell out too. Buy ahead.

When to arrive

For the Nonstop, the sweet spot is between 7pm and 11pm Sunday, when the garden is still warm and the floor is filling. Diehards arrive at the 3pm open to catch the warm-up. The closing set, usually a long Eamon or Justin run, lands between 6 and 10am Monday.

For Friday and Saturday programming, doors are around 10pm and the floor peaks 2am to 5am. The garden is open in warm weather and is where most of the social pacing happens.

Inside

Two rooms and a garden. The main floor is mid-size, with a custom Funktion-One rig tuned for the back corner where the residents always end up dancing. The booth sits at one end. Lights are kept low. The garden behind has trees, picnic tables, a fire pit in winter, a separate small bar.

Programming character: long sets, deep selection, residents who use the room to test material across the full eighteen hours. Residents include Eamon Harkin, Justin Carter, Aurora Halal, and a long bench of New York selectors. International bookings rotate through Friday and Saturday slots.

Phone policy is firm. No photos on the dance floor. Staff watch and will ask you to put the phone away.

What it costs

Nonstop tickets are $25 to $40 in advance, with re-entry. Friday and Saturday parties are $20 to $35. Drinks are $9 to $14, with water at the bar at low cost. Food is available on most long nights from the kitchen counter inside.

Rules

No photos on the floor. No aggression. No harassment. The Nowadays code of conduct gets posted at the door and reiterated at the wristband counter. Violations get you out fast.

The room allows: dancing alone for hours, sleeping in the garden during the Nonstop, eating at the counter at 3am, moving between rooms freely, going home and coming back if you bought re-entry.

Why it matters

The Nonstop is the most ambitious recurring dance party in North America. Eighteen hours of programmed sound, with rotating residents who treat their slots as long-form work rather than featured sets. The format does not exist anywhere else in the United States at this scale, run this consistently, with this much care.

The room also did the work of importing European long-set culture without copying it. Justin Carter and Eamon Harkin built something that reads distinctly New York: house and disco-leaning, garden-aware, less hard-techno coded than its European peers. The result is a room that European DJs talk about with respect.