A Group of bottle-service girls with decades of experience in the city’s splashiest clubs is aiming to infiltrate the male-dominated industry as the reigning queens of New York nightlife.
Calling themselves “TheSix,” the half-dozen ladies — who’ve collectively worked at Pangea, Pink Elephant, Spa, Exit, Cheetah, Crobar, Mansion, Cain and Star Room — are launching a series of underground “One Night Only” pop-up parties each month, starting tonight.
“The only truly successful nightlife companies are run by men,” said Alexandria Murphy — part of the team with Ivanka Naydenova, Mariya Dekhman, Christina Donato, Stefanie Ross and Lizz Ariosto — referring to hospitality honchos including Noah Tepperberg and Jason Strauss of Strategic Group, Butter Group’s Richie Akiva and Scott Sartiano, Michael Satsky and Brian Gefter from Provocateur and Eugene Remm and Mark Birnbaum’s EMM Group. “A totally female staff doesn’t exist,” Murphy said.
Three of the women currently work at clubs owned by EMM, and the others have recently left EMM clubs after years with the company.
“We’re doing it because we’re almost 30; you can’t be a waitress forever, and eventually you have to break out,” Murphy said.
Tonight, TheSix hosts its first bash, “Resurrection Sundays,” where Steve Lewis and DJ Dalton will spin. Guests get a location 24 hours in advance.
“It’s definitely not ‘models and bottles,’ ” said Murphy. “We want to create old-school, underground parties like the old Bungalow or Butter. We want our Brooklyn peeps, our fashion crowd. We asked ourselves, who do we miss seeing?”
They hope to produce up to 10 events a year and take the concept to other cities and events such as Art Basel, Sundance and the Super Bowl.
Remm doesn’t seem to mind the competition. “One of the biggest joys of this business is when our employees aspire to do more and grow,” he said. “These ladies are smart, hardworking and have experience in the industry.”