Eric Adams likes to hold court in a mysterious private room within a private club. kvelsey reports on Zero Bond's Baccarat Room, a VIP space that's unlocked with a fingerprint scan
Photo: Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Haute Living Eric Adams likes Zero Bond. A lot. This is one of the few things anyone can say with any certainty about the Adams mayoralty. Even before he took office, we knew it would become his de facto headquarters .
What is this mysterious private room within a private club? It would appear to be the Baccarat Room, “a private lounge reserved for founding members who enter using their fingerprint,” according to a New York Times profile of Zero Bond founder Scott Sartiano, a nightlife impresario who opened aughts hot spots Butter and Spa and whom the New York Post once called “the former man snack” of Lindsay Lohan, Ashlee Simpson and Ashley Olsen.
Zero Bond, where membership fees range from $2,500 to $4,000 plus an initiation fee, prides itself on exclusivity — Sartiano claimed this spring that the club has an 8,000-person waiting list. The biometric lock seems oddly impersonal for a club that puts so much emphasis on keeping people out, considering Delta Airlines Sky Clubs use them, as does Equinox, which scans members’ retinas and is an investor in Sartiano’s club.
So is the Baccarat Room just a branded space where a select group of people meet to drink whiskey and wine — or Tito’s and soda if you’re Eric Adams? In an email, a Baccarat spokesperson said Zero Bond is “the only Club that has an approved Baccarat Room in the U.S.” This, not surprisingly, involves a lot of Baccarat crystal: The entire internal bar, lighting, and votives are Baccarat, per the spokesperson.
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