Hit any club along Wythe Street in Williamsburg and you’re sure to see packs of cigarette-slim Continentals who order “water with gas,” stay in AirBnb apartments and dance till sunrise. But with March’s opening of Verboten, a 10,000-square-foot, open-till-6 a.m. dance club with a Teutonic theme and a strong European lean, this newly anointed night life concourse is truly starting to feel like a Little Berlin.

For the last decade, Verboten was a roving, barely legal rave party that turned fallow lofts and warehouses into throbbing house-music hoedowns. Verboten’s husband-and-wife owners, Jen Schiffer and John Perez, look to preserve that spirit, saying: “We’re club kids. We got engaged in a nightclub in Ibiza.”

The Place

A former metal shop between the waterfront and the Wythe Hotel. A nefarious cluster of phony security cameras sets a sexy surveillance mood. Inside, a D.J. spins within high-five reach of the crowd bouncing on the spring-loaded dance floor, which is spangled by lasers refracting off a disco ball. In the smaller Cabaret Room, more esoteric house and techno acts play to a tighter crowd.

The Crowd

It can vary wildly depending on the event. On a recent Saturday, normcore gays, ghetto gothics and jaunty Euros galloped in place in syncopated harmony. At an art opening the following weekend, a burlesque acrobat dangled above an older, wealthier crowd that looked to have come from a Burning Man fund-raiser.