Webster Hall owner Sean McGarr and his partner, Michael Sinensky, are spending $3 million to turn a former stable at 621 46th Street — a space also pursued by Ivan Kane for his controversial Forty Deuce project — into a nightclub and events hall named Hudson Terrace. The community board, concerned about improper zoning and neighboring club Pacha’s plan to open a rooftop bar, has recommended that the State Liquor Authority deny the new club's pending liquor-license application, but McGarr isn’t sweating it.
Stefano Pilati tonight advanced the spirit and graphic modernity of his fall collection, though without extracting the same degree of awe that he did six months ago in the Grand Palais. The cutting of the clothes evoked an Eastern influence—and in a sense the imaginative ground for the late Yves Saint Laurent.
A former Vegas nightclub operator—he most recently worked at strip club Crazy Horse Too—is opening a 20,000 square foot nightclub and restaurant in Sunset Park called Jaguars in January. Owner Vincent Faraci explains the concept, "The concept is a restaurant inside the nightclub...in some of the best restaurants in Vegas there’s loud music." Perfect.