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Okay, nobody in NY knows where this club is. You have to get the exact address and tell the cab driver. Once you show up... no line to get in. You get inside and immediately they try and sell you on private rooms, bottle service, and tables (all 700-800 dollars minimum). After you tell them no, you get treated like crap. You still end up spending almost $60 dollars for 2 beers, and 2 drinks and then they throw the tip on themselves! We had this happen for about 3 rounds and decided enough is enough... we'll tip when we want, and when their service calls for it. Not to mention, there was no alcohol in the drinks. Watered down like crazy. The place is packed, and there's nowhere to sit. Everyone just stands around staring at good looking girls. You go upstairs and you have to push your way to the coat check. Then the bathrooms smell. You go to leave and they take your coat tickets and tell you they cant find your coats (trying to get you to stay and spend $). We had to get our entire party to explain their coats and what was in their pockets and argue until they finally gave us coats. Music is great, club is fancy looking, nice setup. Would never go back unless they cut their prices nearly in half, and fired the entire staff. By the way there is a cover charge no matter what you read on the website. (unless they're completely empty)

If you want to be hassled, deceived and overcharged then this the place for you. We made reservations for a table for my brother's 21st Birthday in advance for 11/15/08. I received email confirmation that a table would be reserved with no minimum or bottle service. However, when we arrived a number of servers and staff informed us that there is no such thing as reservations, a $60 dollar per person minimum or no table. The place was not packed when we arrived. We were led to the back near the re-entry area where we had to argue with a few of the wait staff in order to be seen by a manager. 15 minutes later the manager, accommodated us by putting us in the ESPN room with no minimum. Although this was great, we still got screwed. My guest arrived and had to pay $10 dollars each to get in the door when it is clearly stated in the FAQ's on their website that there is no cover.

A group of us went here on Election night to watch the returns. (This had been a venue the Obama campaign used for phone banking.) The night started out nice enough until they asked us for not only a credit card to run a tab, but also a driver's license, which is ricculous considering the dangers of identiy given the information on those two things. Additionally, we had at least 5 differnt waiters and we asked one of them where my credit card/ID was, she pulled it out of her bra! At the end of the night, I payed cash to get my cards back only to later discover several pending authorizations of each card they had been holding. Just skip this place - it's so not worth what cache it used to have.

If you think this place is a good value, just order the fries. Frozen french fries with seasoning powder are hardly worth $10. I was ok with coming to this place to hang and even buy a few drinks but when the bartenders include the tip in the price of drinks bought at the bar - thats horrible - they do not tell you that the gratuity is included in the price and expect another tip on top of the overpriced watered down drinks. If I wanted to pay $10 for a cup of ice I would go to Yankee Stadium! I love Jay Z but there are a bunch of poor bartenders and managers working there... My advice - eat and get drunk at home and then go to 40/40 - No Cover Charge!!

i disagree with you meng..you cant judge Jay-z on how his club was ran!..its the managers that need da blame..the women there looked phenomenal and the drinks were outstanding.im actually a bartender myself and im dropping off my resume today and i will CONSIDER your complaint and hope to move up in there and do something about it or atleast voice my opinion or just to do the best job i can possibly do!

This was a whole lot of hype and you get nothing in return but an empty wallet. The service was terrible, the place was empty and we waited 1 hour for the first round of drinks, the food I just didn't under stand. It was frozen food made to look appealing. And the Drinks don't get me started. And this was for a bachelorette party. I was embarrassed. We told the managers and they claimed that they would do something and even made us wait, while they "cleaned a section in VIP," to make up for the bad experience, 1 hour later with no seating and no further acknowledgement we left. I would not recommend this club to anyone. It's a whole lot of hype with nothing in return. I liked Jay-Z before the visit, what he has representing him changes my whole perspective, his club is WACK and so is HE.