January 29, 2011
"The clientele there, and in New York, are self-selecting, and the Ace is less a gatekept democracy than an anarcho-libertarian paradise. Unlike, say, Soho House or the Standard, there’s no sense of exclusivity; you don’t derive status from membership, you get it by deciding to go in the first place. It’s almost Calvinist."

— The Ace Hotel, the only Calvinist anarcho-libertarian paradise with a bitchin’ fried tofu sandwich, as described by the New York Times.

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    We’ll teach those ‘Gipshuns a thing or two about total depravity and efficacious grace.
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