Category Archives: Nightlife

Studio 54 plus 34

April 26, 2011 – 7:57 pm

Studio 54 opens its doors 34 years ago. It changed the nightlife of the world. I was hangin out at CBGBs. We sneered at the discophiles. I visited the club that winter in leather and jeans. Everyone outside was in satin and glitter. The doorman pointed at me and waved for me to come forward. […]

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Upstairs from the Leopard Lounge

February 21, 2011 – 10:15 am

Palm Beach is the fountain of youth. Anyone in their 50s is the youngest person in the room this side of the grandchildren. Nowhere in that enclave of the filthy rich is reincarnation of youth more miraculous than the Leopard Lounge in the Chesterfield Hotel on Poinsetta Avenue. Palm Beach has trails, vias, lanes, roads, […]

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Worth Avenue Past Midnight

February 19, 2011 – 8:30 am

Worth Avenue is the richest shopping street on the East Coast of Florida if not America. The thoroughfare runs between the Atlantic Ocean to Lake Worth. The litany of high-end stores along the four blocks west of South County Road read like a pantheon of luxury. Worshipers of wealth can shed their riches at Giorgio […]

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Story of the Week / Mr Bellers Neighborhood

February 15, 2011 – 8:26 am

As published in Mr Beller’s Neighborhood 1981 by peter nolan smith 02/14/2011 Neighborhood: East Village, West Village Everyone on the scene thought operating an after-hours club on top of a 14th Street theater was a good idea and Arthur Weinstein opened the Jefferson on New Year’s Eve 1980. During the week the loft was home […]

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New Year Where

December 31, 2010 – 3:07 pm

On December 31, 2010 night we were closing the diamond exchange and one of the security guards asked of my New Year’s plans. Big Dave’s an ex-cop from Brooklyn. My neck of the city. Light black and the 300-pounder knows my hang-out, even though his favorite watering hole is Junior’s on Flatbush. “I’m going to […]

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