• collect calls

    Is Amy Sacco Broke?

    Even if you're lucky enough to have work, you may not be lucky enough to actually collect a check. If public shame is your only option, tell us about it and we'll post your story. Today: Amy Sacco's Bungalow 8. More »
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    Comment by if_i_only_had_a_heart: so it's easier to get in now? omg, i'm sorry 2 Responses | Other threads

  • amy sacco

    Good Night, Amy Sacco

    There was a time in New York City's history, back in the heady days of "a few years ago," when nightlife queen Amy Sacco's life was a worthy item of gossip. She was at the center of an entire universe of celebrities at their most glittering. Today, she's worth chronicling mostly as the living embodiment of the transience of nightlife fame. And a new profile of her in Page Six Magazine (by former Gawker-er Joshua David Stein) can be seen as a grand requiem for Sacco and her Bungalow 8-driven empire. Nothing lasts forever... More »
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    Comment by modelbehavior: Bye bye. Everyone I know that's met her never had nice things to say. Maybe she can retire and make... more » | Other threads

  • amy sacco

    Amy Sacco's London Club: More Bathrooms, Little Else

    Amy Sacco, the former NYC nightlife queen whose reign on top is now (we believe) pretty much over, still has a bunch of fans at BlackBook magazine. In a new interview—one that describes Sacco in glowing terms that would have been more appropriate three years ago—she talks up her Bungalow 8 club in London. Sure, it had a rough start, and hasn't gotten the greatest reviews, but she points out that "we have a hundred more bathrooms than in New York, so, fabulous!” Ha, [cocaine joke]. But what do Sacco's customers in London have to say in their own reviews? More »
    07/17/08
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    Comment by raincoaster: She was cursed from the beginning. Anyone who reads the Mirror knows Londoners don't bother going to the bathrooms to... more » | Other threads

  • amy sacco

    The Nail In The Coffin For Amy Sacco?

    Is this the end of Amy Sacco? We're going to say it is. The onetime NYC nightlife queen's restaurant Bette in Chelsea—formerly considered a complement to her club Bungalow 8, a food-and-fun empire that would never be destroyed—is closed. No big to-do; just a lock on the door, and the end of an era. What happened? More »
    06/27/08
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    Comment by moderningenuity: I worked in the office at Bette and loved working there. Finding myself without a job with no notice totally... more » | Other threads

  • nightlife

    Amy Sacco's London Love Is Unrequited

    Bungalow 8 founder and Manhattan nightclub soothsayer Amy Sacco is being humble! "Most everything's overrated [about NYC nightlife]," she says. "Even I'm overrated!" She thinks that London is now "much more interesting than NYC." Funny, because last time we checked in on her London branch of Bungalow 8, local reviewers were calling it "empty." Surely those days are past? Well, recently they haven't been calling it empty, exactly—just overpriced, overcharging, and helmed by an ill-mannered doorman!: More »
    05/12/08
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    Comment by vulturesquadron: @TheologicalSong: Nice troll. You almost had me. more » | Other threads

  • nightlife

    Amy Sacco's Grim Trip To London

    Amy Sacco's launch of a branch club in London last year was taken as another perfectly-timed move by the designated "queen of New York nightlife" (Vanity Fair). The neighborhood of the Amazonian entrepreneur's original Bungalow 8, in the 20s of Manhattan, has been overtaken by cheesy megaclubs, and celebrities have defected to newer, less obviously wanky spots, like the Beatrice Inn. Escape to London, the world's hot megacity of 2007? Brilliant! Except the nightclub business is local; Sacco's London network is thin; the charismatic hostess is rarely there; London's suffering as much as New York from the credit crunch; and the British offshoot, at the St. Martins Lane Hotel, is dead, according to our London friends. More »
    02/12/08
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    Comment by Getmedeals: I went there on Monday night. It was totally empty! We only went coz we knew the DJ, who was... more » | Other threads

  • she found a straight man!

    Towering club empress Amy Sacco is engaged. After 24 years of dating. To Luigi De Carolis, a dental surgeon. [NY Mag] [After Page Six]
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    By Choire

    Comment by Lysergic Asset: 'After 24 years of dating, I'm just happy to have him.' Is it just me, or does this woman... more » | Other threads

  • how your sausage gets made

    You're shocked, right? Behold, the magic of tabloid weekly Photoshop!

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  • mallhattan

    Amy Sacco To Sell Condo Lifestyle

    Amy Sacco, mother of Bungalow 8 and once the Glenda the Good Witch of nightlife, not only recently bought a penthouse in a new financial district condo complex called District, she'll create its "lifestyle backbone," according to the sales manager. With units going from from $700K to $4 mil, there better be a lot of backbone—more than just dayroom and free cereal. The sales manager also mentioned mysterious "talks" with restaurateur Steven Starr to open a restaurant in a 12,000 square foot space. When Sacco opened Bungalow, she brought striped shirt FiDi ass-vacuums to Chelsea. Maybe now at least they'll be staying down south where they work—and maybe we'll see just how much Sacco likes them swarming under her window. —Josh More »
    05/07/07
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    Comment by Trackback: Over the weekend, A Curbed reader went to check out the more-than-a-sales-office for District, the 163-unit FiDi condo development that... more » | Other threads

  • nightclubs

    Bungalow 8 Doorman To Open Socialist Club

    As Amy Sacco either A) fades into middle age and social irrelevance (soon she'll be just a Wikipedia stub) or B) plans a second legendary take-over of the world of nightlife, her underlings are graduating from beneath her. One underlord in particular, the "irrepressible" Bungalow 8 doorman Armin Amiri—protector of the realm and accused bruiser of p(r)etty boy Fabian Basabe—is set to open his own spot, called Socialista. It will apparently juxtapose Castro kitsch with Veblenian conspicuous consumption, down at Jane and the West Side Highway. "I believe in a healthy balance of capitalism and a socialism," he tells Spencer Morgan. So chin up, Amy Sacco—in case you ever need it, surely there's a dacha for your dotage in the offing. —josh More »
    04/11/07
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    Comment by veronica: Healthy balance of capitalism and "a socialism" = $15 Cuba Libres. more » | Other threads

  • remainders

    Remainders: Bungalow 8's Waning Magic

  • Amy Sacco seems to be losing her touch—her new London nightclub has barely made a blip on the radar screen over there. [DBTH] More »
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By Doree Shafrir

Comment by Brad Walsh: money shot? merlin bronques vs. mark hunter in the final two over whose snap of julia allison's flapping labia is... more » | Other threads

  • bungalow

    Bungalow 8 Still Not Closed

    Don't you love it when you've been working on a story for New York mag about the 27th Street nightclub strip for three months and then someone gets brutally shoved down an elevator shaft and then editor Adam Moss is all like, hey, let's do this thing? Dead guy? A peg! Pay day! More »
    02/12/07
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    By Choire

    Comment by DieBrucke: This article is chock-full of not-so-veiled put downs of the clientèle of these clubs like: Inside the New York Post office... more » | Other threads

  • amy sacco

    Irresponsible Rumormongering: Amy Sacco Stiffing Nadine Johnson?

    Remember when we gently ribbed Bung 8 owner Amy Sacco for ranting to New York about how "cash is king, and I'm an ATM machine. Amy takes money. I've done enough charity. I've supported. I need to get off the broom and on the G5"? We didn't know quite what she was getting at then, but a juicy little missive in the tipline this morning has cleared things up a bit:
    Word is that Amy Sacco hasn't been paying her PR bills, for the last six months or so. Not because she can't afford them, but because she knows that Nadine Johnson can't afford to lose her. NJ's been losing her girls to new agencies such as Syndicate PR. Apparently, she's worried that, if she just stops working for Sacco, the nightlife queen would just switch to one of her rivals, who'd also work for her for free. And Sacco's circle would move with her.
    All the usual caveats about how this is probably totally false, of course, apply. And if you'd like to confirm/deny, well, you know where to do it. Maybe once we've gotten that straightened out we can clear up our confusion about the broom, but we're not getting our hopes up. More »
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    By Emily Gould

    Comment by the earl grey: amy is noxious shes the daighter of a truck driver from Nj yuck more » | Other threads

  • amy sacco

    What is Amy Sacco Trying To Tell Us??

    At the Gentlemen Prefer Blondes screening the other night, New York asked the rich people softball questions for Party Lines. The softball wasn't soft enough for Bungalow 8 proprietress Amy Sacco, however: she managed to say like twelve nonsensical contradictory things. We hate feeling confused, so we thought we'd enlist your help. More »
    12/04/06
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    By Emily Gould

    Comment by raincoaster: Amy is trying to tell you she uses a really big vibrator but wants to trade up to something really... more » | Other threads

  • fabian basabe

    Day 2 of Fabian's Return to Public Consciousness

    Rush & Molloy report today that male socialite and Advice Diva Fabian Basabe has committed the ultimate sin: complaining about Bungalow 8 doorman Armin Amiri. Basabe has told police that during an argument over how many friends he could bring in, Amiri punched him, resulting in a third-degree assault charge. Amy Sacco, Bungalow's grand dame, denies the charge, insisting Amiri would never hit a lady. More »
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    By Jessica
  • amy sacco

    Half-Life of a Hotspot

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    05/12/06
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    By Jessica

    Comment by giddygoon: Oh, sadness. I had such good caviar on tiny crackers and sponsored/flavored chick-tinis there at a GQ party for that... more » | Other threads

  • crobar

    Yet Another Reason Not To Go to Crobar This Weekend (Or So Amy Sacco Thinks)

    It seems all is not well at Crobar, the insufferable megaclub in Chelsea. This email, which nightlife empress Amy Sacco sent to a small group of her club-hopping friends, landed in our inbox this morning. We should probably mention that while we know the email is for real, we have no confirmation that the events it describes actually happened. So take it for whatever it's worth: More »
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    By remystern

    Comment by the earl grey: i was at crobar last saturday night. dj vibe from portugal played an extraordinary set, [deep tribal house] justifying his... more » | Other threads

  • amy sacco

    Life Lessons from Amy Sacco

    An interview with Bungalow 8 and Bette proprietress Amy Sacco reminds you that the suburbs are a matter of life and death: More »
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    By Jessica

    Comment by ReallySmallTalk.com: Why do people talk about dying as if there's a choice in the matter? more » | Other threads

  • glamour

    Glamour Don't: Drink, Make Ass of Self

    In the November issue of Glamour, Bungalow 8 madam Amy Sacco weighs in on the Dos and Don ts of Ruling the Night (the Dos and Don ts of Ruining Chelsea must be in the December issue):
    Go easy on the booze. You never see Donald Trump falling down the stairs. Youth is no excuse, by the way. Being that drunk only works when you re in college. After that, you ve got to grow up.
    Indeed, you don t see Donald Trump falling down the stairs. Of course, you don t see us going around pimping brown cotton candy on our heads, or punctuating our business decisions with a hand gesture from the Walk Like An Egyptian video. And if one is supposed to act like an adult at B-8, then why are the patrons still taking "bathroom buddies" with them when they go pee? Things that make ya go hmmmm.... More »
    10/13/05
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    By noelle2

    Comment by ristoratore: Wow.....B-8 would be so much more fun if there were less drunk supermodels celebs and fashionistas there....NOT! more » | Other threads

  • page six

    Page Six: Your Honest Antidote to Gawker's Lies

    Imagine our surprise when, one peaceful, pickle-scented Sunday morning, we found ourselves mentioned, yet again, in Page Six's venerable copy. (Bless their hearts, too, for taking a quote we gave to BlackBook mag out of context.) More »
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    By Jessica

    Comment by steviemizek: I love it when jess bends Page Six over her knee. How delightfully naughty! more » | Other threads

  • amy sacco

    Gossip Roundup: Amy Sacco, This Is Your Life

    • Bungalow 8 and Bette restaurant owner Amy Sacco continues her quest for total domination: Sarah Jessica Parker's Prettymatches Productions (how cute) has signed a deal with HBO to produce a tv series based on Sacco's "story." [Page Six] More »
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  • new york times

    Correction: Lot 49

    From the NYT "Corrections" page: "An article in Arts & Ideas on Saturday about works of art inspired by science misstated the title of a Thomas Pynchon novel. It is The Crying of Lot 49, not The Crying of Lot 69." The NYT staff has apparently confused a Thomas Pynchon novel with an Amy Sacco-run downtown club. This must be part of the ongoing quest for hipness initiated by Editor Howell Raines. (But Lot 61 is soooo, like, 1999 Fendi-baguette-and-apple-martini.) More »
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  • howell raines

    Gossip roundup

    · Howell Raines is getting married. [Page Six] More »
    01/07/03
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    By Gawker