1 · Position
Scott Sartiano took a former Brooks Brothers factory at Bond and Broadway and made fourteen thousand square feet of lounges, private dining rooms, an omakase counter, a screening room and a library. Dues run from 2,500 to 4,000 dollars a year with an initiation fee of 750 to 5,000, and money alone does not get you in — admission is decided by a membership committee, on what Sartiano calls the mix. He describes it as a New York version of a London club, mixing uptown and downtown, artists and athletes. The waiting list has been reported at eight thousand.
2 · ⚑ The contradiction the entry has to state
Photography is banned and the club sells discretion. And it is one of the most reported-on rooms in New York: the mayor celebrating his election past midnight on the fifth floor, a Met Gala party, a birthday dinner, a second date — all of it in the press, and Kim Kardashian quoted saying it feels like being in someone's living room. The Library records the mechanism honestly: a no-photography rule does not produce privacy, it produces scarcity of images, which is a different and more valuable commodity. Zero Bond is the clearest instance in Part X of exclusivity manufactured by controlling the record rather than the door.
3 · Read against its neighbours
Anema e Core on Capri — LHL-S-198 Taverna Anema e Core — has no dress code and no doorman, and its exclusivity comes from the music and the hour. Zero Bond has a committee, a waiting list and a camera ban. Two clubs, both genuinely hard to be inside, arriving there by opposite routes.
4 · Candour
A club that opened in October 2020 and expanded to a casino floor in Las Vegas by 2026 is moving fast, and the register notes that Sartiano's Hamptons outpost closed. ⚑ Membership numbers, the committee's criteria and the current ownership are not established here.