Posts Tagged Cabaret

  1. Former strip club being rebuilt as…a strip club

    We’ve had our eye on the plans for the closed “gentlemens lounge” far west on 47th St for some time now, and this week DNAinfo discovered the full plans, including the name. The new venue will be known as “Esquire NYC Gentleman’s Club”, and is going to full five entire floors.

    The under-construction exterior of the future Esquire gentlemen's club

    The initial plans were classing the establishment as a restaurant, which we naïvely believed.

    If you look close enough, you can see they’ve completely demolished the existing floors, leaving just the surrounding walls of the building up:

    The remaining external façade of the future Esquire gentelmen's club

    The club is planning to be “very upscale”, and apparently won’t have lineups, nor will it advertise with flyers, which should come as great news to anyone who’s had to dodge one of the guys handing out flyers along 8th Ave for the various clubs over there.

Sunday, Aug 25th

  1. Checking in on the 47th St cabaret conversion

    Way back at the start of June, we looked at the impending plan to convert a cabaret into a hopefully-​classier restaurant or bar or something. As of a few weeks ago, progress:

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    Back in June:

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    The building is way out on W 47th St, almost right next to the West Side Highway, but things are starting to pick up with all the new hotels and developments popping up all over the place (Gotham West anyone?), so it’s in with the restaurants and out with the “gentlemen’s lounges”.

Saturday, Jun 8th

  1. Classing up a Cabaret

    622 W 47th St

    Applications have been filed to convert three floors of a seemingly-​abandoned building in the backwoods of W 47th St into an “adult eating and drinking establishment”. The building at the moment is nothing to look at:

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    We’ll keep an eye out for any more details of what the incoming restaraunt/​club/​bar looks like.

    No word on the fate of the “gentlemens lounge and cabaret” on the ground floor:

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