4040 Club   

6 W 25th St
New York, NY 10010
212-832-4040

Directions   Email   Send to Cell  

Multi-millionaire athletes flock to the 40/40 Club, Jay-Z's ultra-upscale sports lounge with enormous plasma and projection TVs, modern leather eggcup chairs suspended from the ceiling, and three private rooms (one's a cigar lounge), each equipped with entertainment centers featuring 60-inch plasma screens, PlayStation II and XBox, pool tables, and Italian leather wraparound couches. Named after the exclusive coterie of baseball players who can claim both 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in one season, (there are only three), the club is the venue of choice for big-name draft parties and other events. Barry Bonds (one of the aforementioned trio, along with Alex Rodriguez and Jose Canseco) is a regular, and both WFAN and ESPN Radio broadcast from here once a week, adding to the huge list of star athletes and other celebrities who have made this their 'local' sports bar. -- Dan Glass