“He was really the best,” Sacco tells me of Disco’s Bungalow 8 days. He’s worked the doors at various bars and nightclubs in New York for about 25 years, most notably at Bungalow 8, which he says still holds the honor of being “the hardest door in the city.” Carrie Bradshaw once described it on Sex and the City as a “completely pretentious, members-only, tiny, crowded club, that you need a key to get into.” The club’s founder, Amy Sacco, did give out membership cards to a select few regulars, but Disco helped handle the rest. The accusation, or maybe it’s the tone, doesn’t sit well with Disco: “I did not say that.”Įventually, the group realizes they won’t win, and they stomp off, almost definitely unaware that they’ve just been granted access to a different kind of club: the thousands, or possibly even hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who have been politely turned away at the door by Disco.Īnyone who’s anyone who went out in the late-’90s and early-2000s knows Disco when they see him. “But you told me I could make a reservation,” she responds, testily. Disco reiterates that, unfortunately, without a reservation, she and her party cannot enter at this time. The woman then tries to find a number on Google, or a Resy link, or something, but she can’t figure it out, or successfully reserve a table at the press of a button, and grows frustrated.
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She asks how to make one, and he explains that she can call the bar. “You need a reservation,” Disco replies, calmly. “Do you have a reservation?” asks Disco, the bar’s six-foot-seven doorman, hands tucked into his pockets. They walk up to the door at Temple Bar - the newly reopened “downtown Bemelmans” that harkens back to the heyday of ’90s glam and oversize martinis - with a momentum that indicates they aren’t used to being stopped. A gaggle of 20-somethings round the corner of Bleecker and Lafayette, the group’s leader clad in black boots, high-waisted jeans, and a black crop top, her blonde hair styled in loose curls.
It’s Friday night in Manhattan, and the weather has started to turn cold. Having trouble getting past Sven? Here are 28 tips on how to get past the bouncers at Berghain.Outside Temple Bar, which reopened last month. "Later I talked to the owner and he told me that he was in Berlin and was allowed into Berghain," said Marquardt during an interview with BZ Berlin.Īn eye for an eye, a bounce for a bounce.Įarlier this month, Marquardt successfully sued the Swedish company Beware Of Ninja for €15,000 after they used his likeness without consent in their Berghain-inspired card game, Bergnein. Traveling to Australia to showcase his art at Goethe-Institut in Sydney, Sven Marquardt decided to hit the town after his gallery showing.įinding himself in line at a nightclub later that night, Marquardt was denied entry because the club's bouncers found his facial tattoos to be too off-putting and suspicious. In addition to being the world's most famous bouncer, the East Berlin native is also an accomplished photographer who has exhibited his work in numerous locations around the world. Sven Marquardt, the clubland sentry who watches over the door of Berlin's legendary nightclub, Berghain, was given a taste of his own medicine at a nightclub in Sydney earlier this month.
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