Pink Elephant Club

Greenwich Village / NoHo, New York –

After getting booted from Chelsea back in 2010, sparkler-strewn and models-and-bottles paradise Pink Elephant spent over two years off the NY club scene before returning in 2012 with a smaller, mildly gentler, but still glitzy incarnation.

Hidden on a largely residential stretch of 8th Street, the venue requires its savvy guests to first descend to a waiting area dubbed The Infinity Room – either because the walls are covered in mirrors or because mere mortals will spend that much time trying to get in.

A small bar near a private lounge lets fashion mavens and Euro scenesters grab a pricey cocktail in a hurry, though most proceed down the narrow hallway to the dark and retro-style main room, where a giant circular structure anchored by a glittering disco ball hangs over a dance floor perpetually packed with pretty people and house dancers clad in dental floss.

Raven-black VIP booths are set well back from the throngs to ensure moneyed cliques need not interact with the masses, nor worry about an errant elbow shattering their $10K bottle of Cristal.

DJs tend to be up-and-comers on the local club scene, sticking with house and contemporary dance mash-ups to ensure everyone spends most of the night on their high-heeled feet.

The term "seeing pink elephants" may be a euphemism for drug-induced hallucinations, but the iron-clad door at Pink Elephant ensures the two hundred sexy people who make it inside are very real.

Well…real enough.