Jay-Z’s famously blingy, star-studded 40/40 Club, launched in 2003, named for the Major League Baseball feat of having hit 40 home runs and stolen 40 bases in a single season, has popped its last bottle and unleashed a final blast of beats. The decadent sports-bar on steroids, complete with a blue-felt-topped pool table atop a … Read more
Scott Sartiano’s name has been followed by “the man behind Zero Bond” ever since he opened the Noho’s members-only club and started attracting guests like Kim Kardashian, Tom Brady and Mayor Eric Adams. Now the 48-year-old hospitality veteran has his name over the door in red-sauce inspired neon at the corner of Prince and Mercer … Read more
Sex was Larry Levenson’s domain. As the owner of swank swingers’ lounge Plato’s Retreat, located inside the Upper West Side’s Ansonia Hotel, he epitomized late 1970s hedonism in NYC — and even made partner-swapping mainstream. It was an unlikely path for the Bronx-born Levenson, an absentee father of three who had previously worked as the … Read more
“What, like it’s hard?” Coined in “Legally Blonde,” the popular phrase isn’t limited to Elle Woods embarking on her law school journey. Now, it’s not hard to find new book recommendations through Reese’s Book Club. Whether you follow the book club’s Instagram account to always stay in the loop or have the club’s app downloaded … Read more