Sequoia   

Me and my friends were looking for a nice DIFFERENT venue to attend on New Years Eve. When we came upon SEQUOIA it seems like a dream come true, on the water, perfect price, cool atmosphere........Well...First of all when we FINALLY arrived after being told it was on 89 Fulton Street which does not exist It is just basically on the South Street Seaport Strip we were told the entrance was inside the South Street Seaport Mall. On the Sequoia New Years Eve package detail list it said we were entitled to a Prestigous Coat Check which in ACTUALITY was some random people putting all our coats out in the open in the mall. With that we proceeded on through out the night giving the place the benfit of the doubt. There was 1 bathroom for men and 1 for women. Which contained 2 stahls. Now picture a few hundred people crammed in a restaurant that typically could have held about 200 people...Could you imagine what the lines for the bathroom were like? I can because half of me and my friends night were spent on that 45 minute line. The food was a selection of low end appetizers which were clearly purchased from the clearence freezer at Costco. It came out around 10:45 pm and due to the lateness it was served it was a survival of the fittest kind of deal. Grown adults were fighting and scrounging for the food. It was a sight I will clearly never forget. There was not ONE TV on to show Times Square or the ball even dropping. I actually asked a bartender if he could put the TV on to see the ball drop to which he replied "We dont know where the remote is" We were told by the DJ Happy New Year. There was no countdown or even a champagne Toast! The crowd was nothing that any normal New Yorker would have wanted to tolerate on there New years celebration, and me and my friends kept wondering who let these people in? For a somewhat classy place, the venue was filled with the what seemed to be the most classless people in New York.