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For New York City smokers and resaurant/club owners, news that Mayor Bloomberg attended a function where people were actively smoking cigars at the St. Regis has them angry. Lotus owner David Rabin, after hearing about this, snarked to the Post, "Does the wait staff of the St. Regis have a special immune system that combats the supposed ill effects of second-hand smoke?" But really, is it so original, accusing a politican of being a hypocrite? Gothamist certainly sympathizes with Mayor Bloomberg's quandry, of attending the event as a boyfriend (his "companion" Diana Taylor was inducted into some strange club), rather than politician, but he should have made some sort of biting yet funny remark to show he was aware of the illegal practices.
We also want to add that the event for secret society Kappa Beta Phi sounds like drama camp (as in, it's very gay): "One year, the performances were inspired by 'Cabaret,' and the male bankers were required to dress in a skirt and halter and sing 'Wilkommen' to the roaring crowd."
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Mike Bloomberg is terrible. If you think the smoking ban screwed NYC nightlife, wait till you get a load of this. Did you hear he wants to replace the cabaret law with a law that would effectively shut down NYC bars and clubs at ONE AM?!
Read these:
Fear of 1AM Closing on the Rise: New Nightlife License Proposed
Bar Owners Fear Mayor Wants a City That Sleeps
Please go the following link and tell City Consumer Affairs Commissioner Gretchen Dykstra to abort this proposal. This proposal will effectively shut down NYC at 1AM.
January 30, 2004 -- Bar and nightclub owners are in an uproar over a proposal that would require a "nightlife license" to stay open after 1 a.m. City Consumer Affairs Commissioner Gretchen Dykstra is pushing a plan that would require a special two-year license for any nightspot with a capacity of 75 or more where the music would be 90 decibels or higher. A place would be padlocked for up to 10 days after three noise or other license violations, and would have its license revoked if it was "indicted" for any two of the following: homicide, assault, rape or attempted rape, weapons possession, unlicensed sale of liquor, sale of liquor to minors, overcapacity, disabled sprinkler systems or two Consumer Affairs padlocks. Nightspots would also be slapped with violations for failing to sweep the sidewalk and 18 inches of adjacent street by 6 a.m. the next morning. David Rabin, president of the New York Nightlife Assn. and co-owner of Lotus, says Dykstra's plan would let the city effectively shut bars and nightclubs down at 1 a.m.
"This bill will end up closing New York at 1 a.m.," Rabin warned. "It's no longer going to be the city that never sleeps. We're united on this - everyone from the little bars to the biggest nightclubs. The best-run bar in the entire universe could not stay open under the conditions in this proposal."
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Why do New Yorkers keep electing such jackasses for Mayor? Bloomberg is making Giuliani seem like a real cool time. Bring back Koch--the eighties were a gas unlike the lame 90s. I'm glad I bailed on the increasingly pathetic metropolis at the end of '99. Sorry to hear that Gretchen Dystra is still around as well; if memory serves she had a big hand in the destruction of Times Square.