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THE PROMISE to purchase these bottles that is the key to
this realm of exclusivity.
"You
have money, you'll get in anywhere you want," says Mike,
25, one of the Valentine's Night partiers who promised to
buy at least two bottles
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Viscaya—whistling
with admiration of his dedicated doorman. Alex peruses all the
New York papers every morning, Ron says. "He knows all
the VIP's, who's in town."
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in exchange for a table in the Penthouse. Mike says he was
able to gain entrée with his friend because he knew
Redd. The floor manager for the Penthouse said that all tables
in the penthouse had been reserved. Not so, says Mike. A little
know and lot of cash, he says, is all it takes.
Aside
from acquaintances and friends, then, how do
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That's
his job, explains part owner Demetrius. Making those VIP's
comfortable and drawing them in is the name of the game, and
Demetrius says he trusts Alex's VIP acumen. Indeed, before
most could recognize a face, Alex whisks away the velvet rope
for an arriving guest, without a word. It's somebody important,
he says, as if it were written on the guest's
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know when a patron is worthy of the VIP treatment? "He
gets up every morning, he gets his juice, he gets his papers,"
says Ron—head of security at
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forehead. That's his job.
Not
every venue, however, can be or is so choosy. "We're
not the style council, we're the safety council," says
Sean, doorman at the Freight Bar in
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