Tinsley Mortimer & Co Celebrate 15 Years Of SPY BAR At Avenue
[All photos by Nick Cantley for PMc.]
SPY BAR, the "NYC 90's trailblazer" that we all (used to) know and love, blew out fifteen candles on the birthday cake last Friday night, and we have the photos to prove that some things (even now-defunct hotspots) just keep getting better with age.
Fifteen years is a veritable lifetime (or two) for New York nightlife. These days venues are lucky to make it just fifteen months, and, if they succeed, are often quickly relegated to "has-been" status, their proprietors praying for a revival in popularity similar to that currently taking place at the Hotel Gansevoort in the once-again-cool Meat Packing District. Spy Bar may not be an active nightlife hub anymore, but it's memory lives on as one of the early arbiters of cool in Giuliani-era NYC. Among the revelers were NYC Queen Bee Tinsley Mortimer, Noah Tepperberg, Donovan Leitch, Russell Simmons, Wass Stevens, and Julie Dunstall.
Tinsley Mortimer, Jameson Ernest
Kelly Cole, Arron Purcell, Margaret Peppey
Kelly Cole, Donovan Leitch
Louise Tabbiner, Chris Barish
Matt Assante, DJ Reach
Vassili Verrecchia Shows Off His Favorite Things In His Paris Home
While his brother, Timothee, runs the NYC office, Vassili takes on the Paris-based side of things. To gain some insight to what inspires such a creative and entrepreneurial spirit, we asked Vass to show off some of his favorite worldly and sentimental possessions in his Paris home. See where Vass's travels have taken him...
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Heather Dullington
February 22, 2010
10:48pm
there is no spy bar, I think Le Perla occupies the space now in Soho... to celebrate it at Avenue is ridiculous hahahahhahaa
STRIP
February 23, 2010
11:20pm
Sadly as someone who was around spinning much hotter clubs at the time SPY never made much money, was at best famous for doorman King not letting Marhia Carey in one night and didnt last very long at all. So what exactly was the point of having this event other than a bunch of trust fund loser/promoter/club owners wanna bees to get together and talk about a club they never went to or were'nt cool or good looking enough to get into so they decided to buy a club so they could finally get in and let all their uncool unattractive friends in and turn the NYC club scene into what we call the "Bad Wedding" crowd.