I see Eddie Murphy in one corner, and I see Mick Jagger in one corner, and I see Stevie Wonder, who gets up and does something with the band.” I’m walking around and my eyes are lighting up. What is now known as the Darby occupies the legendary Nell’s, which Akiva recalled visiting in his teens: “I remember walking in here. supper club, nightclub) to their new project. Following the successful nightclub 1OAK, the group was cautious about attaching any compound of “-club” (e.g. In 2010, Richie Akiva, Scott Sartiano, and Ronnie Madra of the Butter Group were developing a venue that defied contemporary categorization. In that conjured cocoon of new, old–New York nightlife, it’s no surprise when Liza Minnelli stands up to sing impromptu, or when Bono, on his way to the door, stops at the piano to croon “I’ve Got You Under My Skin.” The spirit of New York nightclubs is alive and well it just exists in another name and format. The crowd-Upper East Siders young and old, theater folk, swanky tourists-listens to the standards Stritch plays or chuckles at Caruso’s banter, or they go right on drinking. to midnight, and it’s all there: white-coated waiters carrying trays of martinis between little round tables, murals of Madeline in Paris scampering above the leather banquettes. Jim Caruso have taken over Bemelman’s Bar at the Carlyle Hotel Sunday nights from nine P.M. Feinstein’s opened at Loews Regency Hotel in 1999, with Rosemary Clooney on the bandstand, and has since coined itself “The Nightclub of New York.” It closed on December 31, in advance of hotel renovations, and Feinstein's has reopened at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco.” This new setup is not a place where people necessarily want to come to be seen and check out who’s there,” explained Rich Thomas, a partner in the club*.*“They’re coming for the experience, the fun, the music-whether it’s the D.J.’s or the shows we put on here.”įarther uptown and worlds away, Michael Feinstein has found a new home for his eponymous nightspot. screen) are at its center, overlooked by a balcony and catwalk, where dancers shimmy above the crowd to the latest house and mashup tracks. stage and dance floor (complete with two-story L.E.D. The two-tiered jumble of shiny rooms, where a nocturnal who’s-who once ogled each other, has been swept away, and an open, theatrical space has emerged. When Marquee, the decade-old doyen of Chelsea nightclubs, reopened in January, little more than the marquee itself remained from its original, sleekly grand incarnation.
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