AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - Wall Street is cool again — and the tech industry's fall from grace made it happen
Finance professionals have shed their post-2008 villain status in New York's social and dating scenes, and the people who know the city's nightlife best say Silicon Valley deserves the credit, for all the wrong reasons. A decade ago, a young banker in Manhattan hid his business cards at parties. The trading floor was social poison. […] The post Wall Street is cool again — and the tech industry's fall from grace made it happen appeared first on American Almanac .
Finance professionals have shed their post-2008 villain status in New York's social and dating scenes, and the people who know the city's nightlife best say Silicon Valley deserves the credit, for all the wrong reasons. A decade ago, a young banker in Manhattan hid his business cards at parties. The trading floor was social poison. Clubs turned suits away at the door. Soho House famously asked members not to bring Wall Street types to drinks. Venues like Don Hill's and Socialista were, in the words of one nightlife executive, "mostly forbidden" territory for anyone who smelled like a Bloomberg terminal. That era is over. The New York Post reports that finance workers are now welcomed, even courted, at the city's most exclusive clubs,…Open