“The energy in this room will be exactly as it was 25 years ago,” Sacks says. “Probably 60 to 70% of the people here tonight were here back then.”
Kriss Mass, who’s been working in New York City nightlife since 1994 and is managing Twilo’s VIP section tonight, remembers what the nightlife atmosphere was like back in Twilo’s heyday. “There were so many clubs on this block. You could just walk anywhere and there was a club open,” Mass says.
It’s a vastly different picture from the current neighborhood, one of the ritziest in the city, populated with blue chip art galleries and storied institutions like The Whitney and The Shed, rather than humming clubs. Besides the literal change in environment, Mass says, club etiquette has also shifted.
“[Some in the new generation] think the [club] scene is about going to a place with 5,000 people and recording it and then posting it. It’s not that,” he says. “It’s going there. It’s dancing. It’s meeting people. It’s getting fucked up.That’s the club scene.”
