He presided over the case involving the 1990 Happy Land fire, in which 87 people were killed at an unlicensed social club.

She was referring to the outcry over unlicensed social clubs after the 1990 fire that killed 87 people in a Bronx club.

Twenty-one people were arrested yesterday when investigators shut down an unlicensed social club and found drugs and two handguns, the police said.

The city's social club task force teams visited 110 of 179 unlicensed clubs that had been ordered to shut down, and found that 107 were closed.

The law also prohibits dancing in unlicensed clubs, and that portion remains intact.

At some unlicensed clubs, the decision has meant a quick change from the old ways.

The confrontation began, the police said, during a routine crackdown on one of the many unlicensed clubs frequented by immigrants in Queens.

An unlicensed social club is on the first floor.

Investigators were looking into whether the unlicensed social club, named Our Place, might have been the target, he said.

He said unlicensed clubs were too dangerous for building inspectors to visit unescorted.