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It’s been about a year since I’ve hit the 27th Street scene, but apparently things have gotten really bad over there.

So, who can you blame? Well, besides Joe Jon B, owner of money-pumpers Home and Guest House (and proponent of a very liberal door policy), you can also focus your hate on one of your own. It was Joe Jon B who capitalized on the celebrities > models > bankers + bottles profit formula, according to this NYMag piece, but it was legions of promoters and people like the banker below who filled the cavernous clubs night after night:

“The owners of the events company Impulse would bring a hundred of their friends from Long Island on any given night. David Jaffee, an investment banker, would send out e-mail blasts beginning, ‘Greetings from my cubicle on Wall Street’ to 75,000 people whom he encouraged to attend parties where he rarely deigned to appear.”

Sounds very much like someone I know.
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