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Trends in Clubland: Now with Preparation H!

We learn alternate uses for ordinary household products practically every day, it seems. More words of wisdom from Rob the Bouncer, author of Clublife: Preparation H, the hemorrhoid treatment, is making the rounds as the hot new product to rub on your chest. (It makes dudes look "ripped.") Amazingly, the dudes doing this are straight. Less amazingly, they come from Jersey and thereabouts and party in the Meatpacking District. Says a manager of a Long Island CVS drugstore about the trend, "I don't give a shit what these slapdicks are using it for. I wish they'd stay out of my fucking life."
[Clublife blog, image via Club It Up]

11:22 AM on Mon May 5 2008
By Sheila
10,191 views, 69 comments

Latest by n/a: @Nard38: wow. i come from a far away land called the South, and will NEVER understand the appeal of the guido. ever. ever ever ever. good for you for being reformed... more »

parochial news

Meatpacking Deathwatch: Florent, For Reals

Much-beloved neighborhood-y French bistro (and after-hours tranny hangout) Florent is on the market, after months of rumors. The rent on the last relic of the old Meatpacking District has been raised from $6,000 to 'bout $58,000. Per month. "No steak frites joint in the city could afford that kind of rent in today's Meatpacking District. Come May, if a buyer is found at all, it's going to be retail, and it's going to be high end," Eater predicts.

12:26 PM on Fri Feb 15 2008
By Sheila
1,291 views, 21 comments

Latest by LAGirl: @Chief Wahoo: my favorite! with a side of frites! more »

urban anthropology

The Last Days of the Meatpacking District

The obituary of the old Meatpacking District has been written before. Now it's really time! The last vestige of the neighborhood, no-nonsense French bistro Florent, may be going the way of defunct club Mother and the transsexual prostitutes that used to ply their trade on its cobblestone sidestreets. A neighborhood fixture long before it was, you know, the Meatpacking District—Eater reports that Florent's days are numbered. The restaurant's vibe is best remembered in the words of Past, Over: "writers and actors and artists and drag-queens and whomever the hell else [they] see fit enough to serve up the right food with the right 'tude." Owner Florent Morellet says he's optimistic, however, because "I believe the world economy will collapse and so might the real estate prices in the neighborhood." Uh-oh. What's going on? More »

2:54 PM on Fri Jan 25 2008
By Sheila
3,386 views, 33 comments

Latest by n/a: As an "English man in New York" for the first time over the New Year Florent quickly became my favourite place to eat. French pancakes with blueberry and maple syrup. Tremendous. A damn sad day. more »

not at christmas!

4000 Horny Jews To Storm Meatpacking District Against Christ!


Christmas Eve for Jews is depressing! Especially for me, in part because I hate Chinese food. Also, it's the birthday of Christ (who my people killed) so that makes me feel bad. But, one way I could see feeling better about myself is going to The Ball, an event where "4,000 Jewish Singles take over 5 Chelsea/Meatpacking Nightclubs (Hiro, The Park, The Cabanas, Highline Ballroom and Earth)." A) My mom would be pleased as punch! B) I don't know, I always get this frisson of excitement when I find out not all Jews are bookish. Some are actually complete losers. C) Jewish girls totally put out at Christmas.

1:49 PM on Thu Dec 20 2007
By Joshua Stein
8,129 views, 99 comments

Latest by lalalina: @Furious_George: oooh, catfight! calm down ladies. more »

hanging from the velvet rope

Pissed Publicists Spurned At Last Night's 'In Touch' Party!

In Touch Weekly's fifth anniversary party and obligatory afterparty went down last night at Tenjune in the Meatpacking. We hear a bunch of folks didn't even make it in the door. A publicist of our acquaintance says: "A bunch of us—from television, film, lifestyle brands, hotels, personal reps—were in line for 2+ hours and never let in while the bouncer 'Alex' at Tenjune let his friends (AKA emaciated underage girls) in. They turned away a reporter from The New York Times but let in Ben Widdicomb from the New York Daily News.... I mean, Tenjune is over, they are lucky the party was there and it looked like a hot spot for the night. And we all collectively agreed that we will not buy the magazine ever again or give our projects or celebs to them. We'd rather go to Life & Style! Seriously." Well, that'll be easy, since they have the same editor!

1:25 PM on Thu Oct 11 2007
By Choire
1,752 views, 13 comments

Latest by RosemarysBabyDaddy: The party was populated with run-off from little west twelfth street, which consists of run-off from New Jersey, which is essentially run-off from New York. So those who stood in line should stop calling themselves industry people and move directly more »

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Past, Over: Florent

Rod Townsend (aka our commenter Momo), sometimes receives telephone calls from The Past, a mysterious entity that remembers where things used to be in New York before Starbucks and Whole Foods came to town. More »

12:29 PM on Thu Apr 5 2007
By Doree Shafrir
5,168 views, 26 comments

hotel gansevoort

Meatpacking Billboard Battle Rages On

From one theater of war to another: The battle for the soul (hahahaha, sorry, give us a minute) of the Meatpacking District is being waged as fiercely as ever. The Villager updates on the state of the conflict:
[A]pproximately 10 in the Meatpacking District... no longer take reservations from the Hotel Gansevoort. Keith McNally, owner of the restaurant Pastis, started the boycott in response to the hotel's recently erected billboard frame, which stretches eight stories high on Hudson St. and will hold ads measuring 1,200 and 670 square feet.
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6:25 PM on Mon Mar 12 2007
By abalk2
2,282 views, 4 comments

Latest by Mariallena: Nothing like an enraged Manhattanite to take the most pointless fight to the extreme. I paid 3mil for this loft! I am too rich to have billboards in my view! more »

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McNally v. Gansevoort: A Fight "To The Grave"!

More news on that whole Meatpacking District vs. Hotel Gansevoort billboard story! Someone on the inside says a number of local businesses will join Keith McNally in the boycott of reservations coming from the Hotel Gansevoort because of the hotel's hideous billboard. Last week, a meeting of local business owners convened, hosted by McNally, that included David Rabin of Lotus, folks from The Waverly Inn and 5 Ninth, and most likely The Spotted Pig's Ken Friedman, to compare notes and mock the owner of the Gansevoort. More »

8:31 AM on Thu Mar 1 2007
By abalk2
2,994 views, 11 comments

Latest by pot-pourri: I support this fully; in fact, I will do my part by NOT engaging in craigslist sex with ANY out of town visitors staying at the Gansevoort. more »

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Hotel Gansevoort's Billboard Destroying Natural Beauty of Meatpacking District

It's not just restaurateur Keith McNally who's upset with the Hotel Gansevoort and the giant billboard it erected. Neighborhood residents are getting into the act as well. After the jump, a few of the distinctly unkind comments left on the travel site Trip Advisor. More »

2:36 PM on Tue Feb 20 2007
By abalk2
4,092 views, 8 comments

keith mcnally

Keith McNally: At War With The Gansevoort Hotel

Hot Meatpacking action! A well-placed source alerts us to the ire of Balthazar, Schiller's and Pastis owner Keith McNally:
The Gansevoort put up a fugly billboard that McNally and the some of the meatheat district business owners are not taking kindly to. Haven't seen it for myself, but apparently it's awful, and if you think the Jersey trash is bad there now [We do! -Ed.], wait until you can see that fucker across the Hudson, not to mention the abominations that could go up in its wake. So McNally is having his reservationists say the following when the Gansevoort concierges - all totally sycophantic asshats, by the way - call Pastis: "I'm sorry, but we've been instructed not to take reservations from your hotel in protest against the billboard on Hudson Street."
And we've just heard the same from inside Balthazar. Will Gansevoort owner William Achenbaum tear down this billboard before some dipshit gets hurt? More »

1:30 PM on Fri Feb 16 2007
By abalk2
1,902 views, 2 comments

Latest by xxoo: Bless McNally. It's true - these Gansevoort dumbasses have erected a 5-story high double billboard which blocks the view of their guests facing east. Brilliant! more »

team party crash

Team Party Crash: Icons of the Meatpacking District @ Theory

Being the fiends for misery that we are, an event called "Icons of the Meatpacking District" suggested too much loathing for us to resist. Imagining a grotesque orgy of models, bottles, striped shirts, pointy cowboy boots, doormen and cocaine, BWE's Alex Blagg and his camera-wielding pal Nina Westervelt steeled their souls and ventured deep into the dark waters of Theory hoping to capture this spectacle and claim it for science. Unfortunately, all they managed to find was a who's who of who cares. Take a gander through our gallery and enjoy the meatiness of it all. More »

2:00 PM on Thu Jan 18 2007
By Alex Blagg
146 views, 3 comments

Latest by pseudopsych: this is absolutely retarded. more »

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Meatpacking District De-Markt

It's fun how the Meatpacking District is already experiencing rollover from one objectionable set of properties to another even more objectionable set. Markt, the restaurant on 9th Avenue and 14th Street, was moderately heinous in its own right — and yet the joint seemed a model of tasteful restraint compared to its newer Meatpacking neighbors. As expected though, the establishment was kicked to the curb on January 1, and now the construction drapes are up to hide the gutting and refurbishment into an Urban Outfitters or something. How's that piazza going, anyway? More »

9:50 AM on Fri Jan 5 2007
By Chris Mohney
300 views, 1 comment

Latest by Sigerson Holmes: Meh. Who cares. more »

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High Art Comes to Meatpacking District

With the Dia Art Foundation dropping out, uptown's Whitney Museum of American Art has jumped to grab the new location right in the ass end of the Meatpacking District. The new space at Gansevoort and Washington will technically be a "satellite museum," even though it will be considerably larger than the original Whitney. And since it will serve as one end of the constructivating High Line elevated park (pictured), one could conceivably walk there from Chelsea without ever setting foot in the Meatpacking hellmouth. Just imagine — rather than drunken jerkoffs screaming at you from a Hummer limo, you can pay admission to watch projected videos of angry homeless men screaming at you from bathtubs full of crude oil. At least the museum should reliably produce some more tasteful T-shirts. More »

2:25 PM on Tue Nov 28 2006
By Chris Mohney
154 views, Comment

eighth street

And Thus, MePa Begat Eighth Street, and God Said It Was Good

The stretch of Eighth Street between 5th and 6th avenues has long been populated by cheesy shoe stores and other seedy establishments, and local media outlets have long looked to the "what the hell is up with Eighth Street?" story as a reliable chestnut during a slow news week. The Times takes the bait today, reporting that the street's landlords would like to bring more restaurants to the block to replace the now-empty storefronts. As much as we'd like see a nice boite or two to complement Gray's Papaya on the corner, we fear that the strategy may be a bit misguided:
Although landlords may be hoping that West Eighth Street's fortunes turn around quickly, Mr. Lagnese is taking a more long-run view. The transformation of the meatpacking district, a once-gritty Manhattan industrial neighborhood that is now flush with hip restaurants, did not happen overnight, he said.
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4:20 PM on Wed Nov 22 2006
By Doree Shafrir
38 views, Comment

mario batali

Mario Batali Prefers Big, Hairy, and Hung

The landlords are little bald men with small penises who live in Greenwich. We're never going to leave, and they're never going to come in my restaurant.
That's superchef Mario Batali, talking about the Meatpacking District's Del Posto and his ongoing dispute with the space's landlords. So OK, one can understand Batali's dismissal of "little" and even "bald" (though he's fated to lose that battle himself), and any man who advocates penis pistol-whipping and dropping in on Courtney Love might also disrespect the small wang. But "live in Greenwich"? Does Mario know that's the hometown of his resto co-owner Joseph Bastianich? And Bastianich is indeed bald. Draw your own conclusions. More »

12:50 PM on Mon Nov 6 2006
By Chris Mohney
2,100 views, 13 comments

Latest by flog: he would not live 1 day back in italy. more »

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Breaking: Bar Serves Drinks

The NYC health department released neighborhood-level statistical reports yesterday, and Greenwich-Soho-Tribeca took the prize for highest rate (23%) of binge drinking (defined as five or more drinks in one sitting, or what we like to call "lunch"). The New York Post immediately dispatched a correspondent to the Hog Pit in the Meatpacking District (or what they like to call "the uber-hip Meatpacking District"). And yes, it turns out this bar is, in fact, one of those bars that serves alcoholic beverages. Not only does binge drinking consist of a paltry five drinks, but you only need to have engaged in such once within the last month to make it into the stats. Such unseemly imbibing is not tolerated at the Hog Pit, as "anyone interested in bingeing should go elsewhere." The bartender says they "definitely cut people off," and she says it "sternly." Consider yourself on notice, B&T crowd.

Saloon-atics Are Still Drinking In the Moment in the Big Apple [NYP]

10:30 AM on Fri Oct 27 2006
By Chris Mohney
96 views, 4 comments

Latest by Cheap Shot: That picture with the fly on the meat is the dirtiest picture ever. more »

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Meatpacking District Beautification Plan

Streetsblog details a laudable but doomed effort to improve the dead center nexus of the Meatpacking District by converting the confluence of Little West 12th Street, Gansevoort Street, and 9th Avenue into a "piazza." The project involves dedicating existing streetspace to delivery, hotel pickup, and parking lanes, all of which would be promptly filled with taxis (even the sidewalk cafe space). The plan's admirable in its intentions, but the little triangular plaza that serves as the centerpiece looks particularly unappetizing (unless you're a fan of sucking down auto exhaust with your app & bev). On the other hand, we approve of the prototype t-shirt pictured here, sent in by an anonymous reader and modeled by a pair of unsuspecting Meatpacking honeys. That, friends, is the past, present, and inescapable future of the neighborhood in question. More »

3:10 PM on Mon Oct 23 2006
By Chris Mohney
201 views, 12 comments

Latest by JAH: Honeys??? They make me want to say..."honey, go get me a knife so I can poke my eyes out!!!" more »

team party crash

Team Party Crash: James Blunt Afterparty @ Bed

Last night, Intern Heather, Wingwoman Kate, and erstwhile Gawker videographer Richard Blakeley hit the "Target Red Room," a.k.a. Meatpacking District lounge Bed, for an afterparty dedicated to English pop crooner James Blunt. The attendees included the "Beautiful" (and by "Beautiful", we mean "greasy as fuck") Blunt himself, some cast members from Blue States Lose: The Musical, and a bunch of sluts. The result is the video above, featuring more tard-dancing than ever collected in one clip, plus an ample photo gallery (with captions, even!) of various unsavory characters. Abandoned on the cutting room floor was footage of Blunt crying tears of grease over the fact that partygoers (especially the Gawker Intern and her trusty sidekick jumping spastically on the bed) enjoyed Toni Basil waaaaay more than his craptastic album. Heavy hangs the head that wears the crown of specious hipster fame.

5:25 PM on Thu Oct 12 2006
By Chris Mohney
227 views, 18 comments

Latest by Gansevoort: Bed is not in the MPD. It's part of the hell we refer to as West Chelsea....but please extend the ban to 29th Street. more »

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