Everyone is Not Invited to the Eldridge!
Allow us to please take a moment to prick the dream balloon of the masses who desire to spend this New Year's surrounded by socialites and celebrities at the Eldridge. You are not invited. Let us say that again - you are not invited. Matt Levine, maestro of the Lower East Side, contacted us to break the bad news, saying:
This blurb you wrote is a false advertisement, and in no way being endorsed by The Eldridge.I am not sure where you found that blurb, but there are many websites saying they are selling tickets to The Eldridge, but meanwhile, we do not have any promoters working on New Years Eve,and due to our size, have only a certain number of tickets available, and entry will be approved by myself, and management. I am unaware of where you received that blurb from.
When we explained that it came from the Bloc Group, Mr. Levine told us he had spoken to the higher ups there and cleared up the confusion. But we wondered, what about the people who had already purchased those $350 tickets? Is there a chance that they could show up on 12/31 and be not be approved by the owner or management?
Mr. Levine waxed poetic on that as well.
If anyone has purchased tickets via Matt Isaacs (Bloc Group) website, I will of course - honor it, but Matt Isaacs was instructed to take it down, because it was never approved by myself or The Eldridge, nor was the information and context of the promotions.
Matt Isaacs is a good friend of mine, and it was just a matter of miscommunication which was cleared up, and the website and promotions will be taken down. The Eldridge did not endorse this, confirm this, or approve that listing, or any other listings currently posing to sell entry/tickets for New Years Eve.
Good thing we already purchased our tickets! See you there in 13 days!
DBTH
Reader Comments (16)
still up now - hurry up everyone and get your tickets!
im bring 3 flutes
oh, oh! i'm bringing lydia hearst!
I'll bring the "models"
Liar.
hey matt levine (since you're probably reading this)--
i just wanted to let you know that a couple weeks ago, i got dragged to your joint by a good friend (who just happens to manage some other "hott" place).
since i initially rejected the idea of going, she got on her b-berry and sent you an e-mail. evidently, you promptly responded, assuring us admittance (i'm an "old" AND a "veteran" of the industry you see. sorry, but i don't roll anywheres, otherwise. cuz it's just not worth it to me.)
yah so-- we all (the manager friend, a marketing director for YSL, a seven-time manhattan restaurateur, a GM for a midtown 3-star, and i) hop into two cabs and hike it alls the way over to your place in east bumfuck.
guess what
your doorman-- he is a bit of a tool, yes ?
and even after he is SHOWN the e-mail (which apparently, you cc'd to him?) he still wants to make a spectacular "display" of us, seeing as there's NOBODY else waiting on line (and that's bad for your "image," right?)
do you remember what happened next? maybe?
i'll refresh your memory:
we all hopped back into a minivan cab, and then you responded to my friend's second "hasta la pasta" e-mail with: "no, come back! have a comp table waiting...!"
but we were already on our way elsewhere, rolling our eyes at the ludicrousness of your idiotic establishment.
then later i heard you sent "a STACK" of those super duper awesome laser-whateverthefuck cards to my homegirl at you-know-where.
so then we rolled our eyes some more.
i'm just sayin.
When did all this maestro of the LES start about Matt Levine???? He is just a rookie down here and young in the game. The previous story sounds hilarious, get it together Eldridge, you want those people at your bar!!!
hahahah that story is quite hilarious. but gotta go with mr. white on this one. the kid is a nobody. that place is a shoe box.
Naeem only knows to let in 18 year old FIT students. He wouldn't recognize anyone legitimately cool if he was smacked with a stack of "purple magazine". They can book heavyweight industry parties like Thrillist, though!
Jesus, you people are grown-ups. Adults. What the F is wrong with you all? Matt Levine seems like a loser, granted. Abbe Diaz almost sounds like a bigger loser (Waaaahhh, I'm so important, I've worked in the nightclub industry, though I've contributed absolutely nothing to humanity and nobody knows my name except for a bunch of well-heeled fashionistas in lame NY circles, I should never have to wait for anything ever! I'm entitled!") Though I enjoy all of your pathetic quest for status, and it provides me with is one of the most unbelievable unintentional comedic factors known to man, I really pray they instate the draft back in this country. The amazing lack of self-awareness needs to be studied, honestly, by like doctors and shit.
Ill be selling tickets on the corner the night of before the ball drop. Black Trenchcoat.
And offering handjobs... I forgot to mention
Dont fuck with the Jesus... Hahaaa
I agree with jesus. While I think Matt is ehhh abbe did sound like a HUGE loser. Maybe you should wear a sweater that says I am Abbe and I don't wait on lines because I am super important even though I have never done shit that merits me being important but the mere act of my birth was the gift to mankind.
faggots
Dang, "Hay-zoose"-
Ya know, if you be waiting on lines outside in the freezing cold winter, your nuts shrivel up and shrink. I guess that's why you be such sniveling little cock-sucking punk-ass. Dumbshit, ain't nobody in the world be believin' you gots a "supporter" hangin' off them shriveled little dingleberries, neither.
Ain't you be seein' how YOU be the "loser"? Why you gots to be hangin' all over Abbe Diaz's every move and shit? Get your own life, dumb motherfucker.You oughts to get a job turning wine into piss water, Jesus. Sound like you be good at that shit.