But he said the new nightspots working hard to seem underground were, in fact, creating a stereotype downtown.

"We don't put people through the humiliation at the door; that's tired," said Max Myers of 6 Bond Street, a new nightspot off lower Broadway.

In a further tightening of regulations, the Interior Ministry said new nightspots would not be allowed to open outside designated entertainment zones.

The new nightspot injects an old formula of glamour - the 1940's big-band supper club - into the city's sagging night life.

He was a regular at a new nightspot, Studio 54.

Who's been seen dining with who at which new nightspot, who's dumping who, that sort of thing.

The two came together Tuesday night at Cherry, Rande Gerber's new nightspot in Murray Hill.

But for those who need a break from all that ancient ambience, a string of new nightspots and shops is taking root in Kirkwall, the archipelago's capital (population 6,200).

But now, three new nightspots have announced plans to move into the very same sites, and fury has returned.

It's one of several new nightspots, all with different personalities, vying to keep the estimated 10,000 New Yorkers who frequent them interested and intrigued.