Your bonus cash won’t buy you entry into this Chelsea club … if it ever opens, that is. More

The Chinatown fixture Double Happiness (173 Mott) is getting a $1MM upgrade to make itself more appropriate for folk like you. Says NYMag: entrepreneur Emma Cleary is aiming to attract “successful and upscale clientele” to the bar, as opposed to the “lower east side crowd.” (Question: isn’t that the same thing as the lower east side crowd?) More

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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It sounds like many of you think you can do better than A.J. Apparently, all of you rock stars have cars better than Porsches and ride the white horse all night long (with models and bottles of course).

Eager beavers can and should (for all of our workaday amusement) step up and make a mini banking celebrity out of yourself. Just remember: sex on the beach is a drink. All the information is here.

Speaking of bottle service at Cain, one NYC councilwoman is attempting to outlaw the marking up of bottles at clubs, based on the idea that it “drastically increases patrons’ incentive to drink intemperately and promotes dangerous levels of drunkenness.” More

You would think with all of the Vayner mania, any sane banker/banker wannabe would try to stay out of the limelight. But no.

Codetv has a clip of one brave analyst, showing the world the joys of West Chelsea nightlife. (The screenshot of the vid above links to the site, I couldn’t get it to feed into this post)

Who: A.J., 23, financial analyst at a large investment bank (with friends Clayton, Tom, Tony and Rob), as well as two young ladies, going “wild” at Cain.

Choice quotes:

“Models and bottles.”

“The guys I roll with, I mean they’re the real deal. They work hard, they play hard, they have the money to play hard.”

“Party hard in style.”