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Pretty spot on. I just worked a party in the Hamptons Saturday (catering) with Giuliani, Schumer, Barbara Walters, Samuel Lefrak, etc on the guestlist. Actually got chewed out by Barbara for a minute. I see Bill Cunningham ALL THE TIME at parties, at first I was like who the hell is this old dude still shooting film.
There is no way you will ever come into contact with or experience any sort of high society without being in that circle, and it is a very incestuous circle. For example attending a dinner at MoMA, a cocktail party at the MET, park ave penthouse parties. Lincoln Center is your best bet to at least go out the way that people in high society do.
The best shot you have is if your kid is classmates at some prep school with a billionaire's kid and you somehow get involved with school activities and are introduced to them. I've seen this happen at David Koch's apt. One guy showed up in a polo shirt, don't be that guy.
But there are maybe like only 85 billionaires in all of New York City? There's more to high society than just those people, right?
But there are maybe like only 85 billionaires in all of New York City? There's more to high society than just those people, right?
Yea definitely, I was just citing that one example. You don't have to be a billionaire to be in high society and even if you are you won't necessarily be accepted. The whole 'old money' vs 'new money' stigma is for real. You have to have what they define as "class" among other things in order to be looked at as an equal.
There's the Upper East Side, Central Park South and Sutton Place which is the stereotypical embodiment of high society in New York. There's the usual charity benefits at the Park Avenue Armory, Sotheby's/ Christies auctions, private parties in Park Avenue coops, The Met Costume Gala, private clubs such as the Metropolitan Club, etc...
Though, these events are extremely exclusive and mostly cater to the 1% of the city or descendants of the 1% of the past. Sometimes not even some members of the "old money" class attend it (for the reason that it's too flashy, they already have their own small social circles or aren't invited due to being organized by noveau riche who don't know who many of them are)
Nonetheless high society is focused on keeping those not in it out and it's very hard to gain entrance to events like that if you're not a part of it. It's sad but true.
For everyone else, there's the art museums (the Metropolitan Museum, the Frick, and the rest of the Fifth Avenue swath), The Plaza, The restaurant Park Avenue Summer (or Fall depending on the season) Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall and the NY Public Library and other cultural institutions to experience the venues of high society's present and past. You can even watch the glitterati parade up the red carpet at the Met Costume Gala. That's about as close to high society as most will get since during the high society events and parties it's by invitation only.
Another good place to research "high society" from afar is on the website New York Social Diary if that kind of thing interests you.
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Yea definitely, I was just citing that one example. You don't have to be a billionaire to be in high society and even if you are you won't necessarily be accepted. The whole 'old money' vs 'new money' stigma is for real. You have to have what they define as "class" among other things in order to be looked at as an equal.
Yep, there's even a few private clubs in the city that won't let members in if they don't know the unwritten rules of old money and especially if they don't have class. The tension between the old money and new money is indeed still very real along the east coast
There's the Upper East Side, Central Park South and Sutton Place which is the stereotypical embodiment of high society in New York. There's the usual charity benefits at the Park Avenue Armory, private parties in Park Avenue coops, The Met Costume Gala, private clubs such as the Metropolitan Club, etc...
Though, these events are extremely exclusive and mostly cater to the 1% of the city or descendants of the 1% of the past. Sometimes not even some members of the "old money" class attend it (for the reason that it's too flashy, they already have their own small social circles or aren't invited due to being organized by noveau riche who don't know who many of them are)
Nonetheless high society is focused on keeping those not in it out and it's very hard to gain entrance to events like that if you're not a part of it. It's sad but true.
For everyone else, there's the art museums (the Metropolitan Museum, the Frick, and the rest of the Fifth Avenue swath), The Plaza, The restaurant Park Avenue Summer (or Fall depending on the season) Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall and the NY Public Library to experience the venues of high society's present and past. You can even watch the glitterati parade up the red carpet at the Met Costume Gala. That's about as close to high society as most will get since during the high society events and parties it's by invitation only.
Another good place to research "high society" from afar is on the website New York Social Diary if that kind of thing interests you.
Well yes, that's why it's called high society because it's exclusive.
The only way in is through charitable donations, IMMENSE charitable donations.
And of course the parties will be at museums, opera galas, or swank homes on Fifth and Park Avenues...in the 60's natch. Perhaps in Summer, in a couple 40 room Hampton "cottages."
I have read about successful party crashers but that takes real technique. If you are a breathtakingly beautiful man or woman, you may also have an entre through "daddy."
I cannot imagine a more boring existence. I'd rather watch TV.
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Totally fallen from its heights. Last time I was there they were hosting some event for noveau-richeish tech people.
Well, it does host the International Debutante Ball every 2 years - by invitation only, of course.
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