5 g's a year and all this can be yours.
Do you want to party with a bunch of tools for free or do you want to pay for the opportunity to do so? If you answered “sign me up for the latter,” Carbon NYC might be right for you.
It’s the nouveau version of a New York Gentlemen’s club: Carbon NYC is an exclusive networking club for sucesssful New York business men who have demonstrated achievement in their chosen field (ahem, made a lot of money) and demonstrated passion for non-work pursuits (ahem, bottles and models.) Most importantly, NO GIRLS ALLOWED.
Founded in 2004 by Jay Friedlander, the Carbon Club’s mission is “to create a community where camaraderie, influence, and a prolific urban experience intersect.” Sort of like the thing Chuck Bass would whip up on a whim, except for a much older set: the average age of Carbon Club members is 37. Members have to pay a fee of $5,000 a year, which is no big deal for club-members; most are millionaires, and about 30% have a net worth of over 10 million dollars. The ability to pay the yearly fee alone won’t guarantee you a spot in Carbon, which caps its membership at 750 people, despite receiving over 200 applications a year. Prospective members must be referred by current members, and then undergo a pseudo-hazing type process before they’re admitted.
Then and only then will you have the chance to rub shoulders and whatever else you might like with these guys:
I prefer the Drones myself.
Hey, we’re “Alfalfa males” too.
~Association of Former Lehman Risk Managers
Pongo, Bingo and Tuppy knew you would say that.
@1 I bet The Book at the Ganymede has a bunch of dirt on these tools.
@4 – These Carbon chappies are a rum bunch; defintely not preux.
@4 Steady on mate
I guess that’s what you do when you’re too old to get into Marquee …
“quasi-hazing” definitely includes the elephant-walk through the PA bathroom during rush hour.
tip of the hat to @1/3/4.
very good, sirs.
Sign me up!
- Barney Frank
“pseudo-hazing”=sloppy seconds with a dead manatee.
It appears even a chimp could get in based on Livestrong’s arm there.
Dude on the left has arms as hairy as a girl I dated in Crotia…same kind of eyebrows too and….Hey. Wait a minute…..
~AIG International Quant
Oh I say! Im well chuffed to join this lot….
gay homo’s
nice one @13!
@1,3,4,9
I call my ex-wife the Empress of Greenwich?
- Steve ‘Gussie’ Cohen
Dudes look like two basis traders at Energy Transfer after the settlement was reached.
@17 – FTW!
The closet thing to the Drones Club I have ever seen = Link Club. It is a fabulous place for what it is – but who knew these people still existed?
Links – with an S. 62nd. The doorman’s outfit, the secret entrance – the money.
Just old time Manhattan.
Bess’s third tag says it all. And chippies, what’s with all the Wodehouse references today? Not that the commentariat on this site isn’t a modern-day version of the Drones, mind you. Bread-roll throwing contest, anyone?
CarbonNYC. Where the Fashion Meets Finance men go when they grow up.
@22 It is springtime, after all.
-Frederick, Lord Ickenham
Tags go into the all-time top 10
Didn’t know Leo was a member: http://guestofaguest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/4690_109129405738_601165738_2757169_5212952_n.jpg
This club sounds like something Anal_yst would like to join.
none of you will get in
I have no desire to suck cock and live in CT so I guess that’s two strikes against me ever joining this prestigious group of naked leap frog aficionados.
– Fixed Income
@28 – none of us would like to get in. circle jerk sums it up.
NO GIRLS ALLOWED
I am surprised that Carbon hasn’t caught on in other high-powered, high-life cities such as Vegas, Miami, DC, and Chicago.
T. Thema Martin
Editor, Savionaire
Refined Single Living On The Go
HA! Too right. This is so spot on. The vast majority of Carbon members are in fact tools. The few that are cool are almost never around. So many have left this poor, pathetic “club”. It’s gotten worse and worse.