And we were just saying how great New York City is because you can do drugs and hire prostitutes just about anywhere, and nobody really cares.

Apparently, it's that the police didn't care the first 10 times they bought drugs at Splash, but the debauchery came to a halt this Friday, when the 5-0s decided to start saying "no" to the Chelsea blow ring.

Friday night the cops raided seven of the nabe's nightclubs, and five of the Chelsea clubs were completely shut down:

• Club Deep (W. 22 St. at 5th Ave): undercover cops allegedly purchased marijuana, cocaine and ecstasy.

• View (8th Ave at 23rd St.): undercovers said they bought cocaine and ecstasy.

• Splash (W. 17th St. 5th/6th Aves.): undercovers allegedly bought $2,700 worth of cocaine.

• Spirit (W. 27th St. 10th/11th Aves.): cops said they witnessed assaults, including a stabbing; alcohol being served to minors, as well as drug use and sales.

• Avalon (6th Ave. at 23rd St.): cops reported buying ecstasy.

One clubber's drug-induced account of the raid:

One dazed and confused clubber at Avalon said musician Teddy Compton was in the middle of his opening act.

"Half way through the set, the volume just plummeted," said the woman, who asked that her name not be printed. "The NYPD just swarmed in. It was a hell of a lot of cops. The club was just shut down, nobody would tell us why."

We are totally, totally shocked. Especially at the news that Deep, in fact, did not shut down three days after it opened as per our original un-investigated theory.

RAIDING COPS SHUT 7 CLUBS [Joe McGurk, New York Post]