When ‘Club Shadows‘ poised to open their doors in 2006 as a rumored quasi-strip establishment, the reviled club’s first order of business was to deprive anyone the opportunity to see inside by bricking over virtually every window at street level – ‘turning this house of whores, into a house of horrors!’

Hence, making ‘Shadows’ about as inviting as a Great White concert at a Rhode Island nightclub.

Well, two years and a stack of State Liquor Authority Violations later; an alert tipster just shot us this pic of Club Shadows over the weekend, where it appears at least one of the two large preexisting windows has in fact been excavated. Allowing natural light and air inside – not to mention the possibility of escape.

Shadows’ extreme makeover (coincidentally) comes after last week’s 68th Precinct Community Council meeting, where Captain Rodriguez issued an open invite to Bay Ridge bar owners for a dialog on bar related incidents – urging proprietors to use the 68 as a pro-active resource, rather than a last resort.

While there’s no word on whether Club Shadows was represented at the 68 C.C. to take part in the community dialog – Shadows brilliant media savvy PR campaign is available online, where according to their MySpace page, the club’s billed as:

A “NEW CREATIVE OUTLET FOR LOCAL TALENTS IN ART LACKING BAY RIDGE COMMUNITY.”

Where, “The goal is to promote live music back into the Bay Ridge community.”

Shadows is apparently; “excited to become not only an outlet for local talents but also offer something to the neighborhood that it now lacks.”

Shadows evidently responding to the community’s need for an increase in stabbings.