3. He Owns One Of New Yorks Best Nightclubs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr_FwEn5Qlc Heres a quick quiz: which one word would you most associate with Andrew W.K? We asked 100 people that very question and every single one of them answered party. This result (which we didnt just totally make up, honest) is entirely predictable. His most famous song is called Party Hard, and it uses the word party at least 43 times. If this wasnt enough, party features in no less than three song titles on his debut album, and another on its follow-up, The Wolf. For a man so universally renowned for partying, it seems entirely predictable that at some point he would open a nightclub, and this he did in 2008. Santos Party House, in downtown New York City, is his vision for what a completely safe space where anything goes would look like, and his signature eccentricities are all over it. He tapes neon signs to the wall for example, with slogans such as Thank you for partying!, You have a beautiful face!, "Dancing is unrestricted" and the quite literally true Party is our middle name! He even spends hours answering the phones in the clubs office. But Santos Party House is also a uniquely democratic nightclub, and W.K. will often take a step back and let things develop naturally after all, as he says in the video above, its all about the fans. Speaking to New York magazine, W.K. said that when he first arrived in the Big Apple, he felt like some bars and clubs were actively discouraging him to go, like it was some kind of nuisance for him to be there. Responding to this negativity, he vowed to make a relentlessly positive environment, and Santos Party House is it. It has won numerous awards, meaning that W.K. and his co-owners Spencer Sweeney, Ron Castellano, and Larry Golden can genuinely say they run the best nightclub in New York City.