Erotica

April, 1974

The supper club is an all-but-vanished New York institution, slowly going the way of double-decker buses and five-cent ferry rides. Against the trend, one welcome and well-appointed new perch for night owls is Reno Sweeney (126 West 13th Street), a Greenwich Village boite named by proprietor and pianist Lewis Friedman for the rowdy character Ethel Merman played in Cole Porter's vintage musical Anything Goes. The word is out that nearly everyone in the know has been going to Reno Sweeney ever sin...