New York’s newest social club is on the ground floor of an office building in the Flatiron District. The windows are tinted black. From the street it has the dimly lit aspect of a nightclub. Monthly memberships range from $350 to $2,250 (£270 to £1,730).
Just inside the door stand two spectacularly good-looking people: a young man and a young woman in form-fitting black outfits. Beyond them there’s a bar lined with stools that offers bone broth and other elixirs, but no beer, wine or cocktails. Most of the fluids they serve here are administered not in a glass at all but down the tube of an intravenous drip.
Will Pavia tries an ice bath. A monthly membership costs up to $2,250. “Often couples come on date nights,” says the founder
AARON RICHTER FOR THE TIMES MAGAZINE
There is no restaurant here either, just a “restoration bar” where a range of jars contain