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Interior of The World, a nude Zoë Lund on the pole. The World was a large nightclub in New York City, which operated from the early 1980's until 1991 at 254 East 2nd Street, in Manhattan's East Village neighborhood. The venue, which included a secondary establishment called "The It Club," was housed in a former catering hall and theater.
This is a list of notable current and former nightclubs in New York City. A 2015 survey of former nightclubs in the city identified 10 most historic ones, starting with the Cotton Club , active from 1923 to 1936.
Of Club Cumming's clientele, The New York Times said, "On a recent Saturday night, the crowd was a tightly packed mix of neighborhood gay men in vintage T-shirts brushing up against Becky types in black and gender-non-conforming millennials wearing glittery tanks, colorful scarves and the occasional boa. It was sometimes hard to tell where the ...
Social life in London has long revolved around members-only clubs such as Annabel’s or 5 Hertford Street, but the concept has largely been foreign in New York. Yet private clubs are on the rise ...
The Knickerbocker Club was founded in 1871 by members of the Union Club of the City of New York who were concerned that the club's admission standards had fallen. [6] By the 1950s, urban social club membership was dwindling, in large part because of the movement of wealthy families to the suburbs. In 1959, the Knickerbocker Club considered ...
US Army officers enjoy a night on the town at the Latin Quarter in New York City before they ship out during World War II. Walters left the business in the 1950s. Earl Wilson described the club under its new management in 1964 as "more expensive" than the Copacabana "but then the show's a bit bigger, nakeder and longer." [4]
The membership of the CORE Club is drawn from the economic and social elite of New York City. Writing in the New York Times in 2005 Warren St. James described the club as being a place for "a geographically and socially diverse set of wealthy people to gather and meet others of the same disparate tribe" and an "ambitious act of social exclusion". [2]
Paradise Garage, also known as "the Garage" [1] [2] or the "Gay-rage", [3] [4] [5] was a New York City discotheque notable in the history of dance and pop music, as well as LGBT and nightclub cultures.