Steven Greenberg, the owner of rooftop lounge 230 Fifth, either has a public relations stain on his collar, or he's a fair businessman who knows a bad customer when he sees one. On Wednesday night, Greenberg threatened to kick out a 40-person meeting of the Black Public Relations Society of New York off his roof when not one person in the entire group ordered anything from the bar, effectively commandeering a huge chunk of revenue-worthy deck space to hold their meeting, which was held without a reservation. Supposedly, BPRSNY members wanted to wait until their invited guest, CNN political pundit Jamal Simmons, was finished giving a speech before they ordered anything. (Much like when a bar shuts down at an event when a keynote speaker takes to the podium, we hate this policy.)
When Greenberg started yelling, some in the group quickly began placing orders, squashing Greenberg's fears and any potential to paint him as someone who thinks blacks are freeloading and cheap.
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We'll have to side with Greenberg on this one–he is running a business, and if you bring a group of 40 into a public place, it's just common manners and good etiqutte to order from the bar, for gawd's sake. And then to argue when the establishment's OWNER tries to kick your cheap butts out? That's PUBLIC RELATIONS? Does anyone in this wayward group even understand what PUBLIC RELATIONS is all about? For this blunder, they should all immediately resign from this group, since it's obvious they don't know what they're doing!
I understand that they did not make reservations. However, you know that the 40+ will begin ordering drinks at some point. And their guest speaker was still talking.
I don't understand that people are so quick to jump to negative conclusions when Black people are involved. It could have been sorted out amicable. I don't understand why this even made it as a blog post!
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It could have been worse, it could have the Lesbian Public Relations Society of New York! We have a well known joke in the bar business, Q: " What is a Lesbian Cocktail?" A: "Ice Water!"
i know steven, hes ABSOLUTELY a racist a cokehead and a poor excuse for a businessman
i, too, know steven. he would not host a party for a famous rapper because of his skin color. he's coked up every other day and he's incredibly racist.
He is a friggin cokehead who loves little asian girls and boys. Totally hates blacks
Besides being a fire hazzard this Benjamin Franklin look alike does coke with young woman usually asian He should be put out of business. Plus the place is infested and designed for Euro trash. Young woman lookout especially if your an Asian immiggrant for this big friggin jerk who is about 65 years old probably goes both ways he sounds like a friggin queer with a stick up his butt. Big racist and user of immigrants totaly against what America stands for
I'm Asian girl he use me he have one ball