Legendary club 1Oak makes comeback with NYFW bash as buzz of rumored new home revealed

Pop that bottle! 1Oak is making a comeback.

The celebrity magnet, which was shuttered during COVID-19, reopened at its old West 17th Street location during New York Fashion Week, we hear, and drew Leonardo DiCaprio, Cindy Crawford and daughter Kaia Gerber, Winnie Harlow, Future, Ice Spice, Anwar Hadid and more.

Sources tell Page Six that the venue, run by Richie Akiva and Darren Dzienciol, is expected to be able to open there twelve times in a year.

1Oak opened for a New York Fashion Week bash this weekend drawing guests like model Joan Smalls. Sansho Scott/BFA.com / Shutterstock
We hear Richie Akiva, shown here, and Darren Dzienciol are able to open the spot twelve times per year. Sansho Scott/BFA.com / Shutterstock

And there’s chatter that it could reopen permanently at a different venue.

One source tells us that while this could be for more 1Oak pop-ups, it could also mean private events and parties.

At the Fashion Week bash, a source tells us that the place was packed with mobs outside trying to get in.

This could be for 1Oak pop-ups and private events. Dzienciol is shown here in 2014. Christopher Polk

The club shuttered during the COVID-19 pandemic and was evicted in 2021 after racking up nearly $1.8 million in back rent, according to court records.  (“It was resolved and the funds were ultimately recouped,” a rep for Akiva previously told Page Six. The court case was dropped in February 2019. )

Drizencole told Page Six that this is a “farewell tour.” 

But we hear some people may have other ideas.

Kate Moss’ daughter Lila attended the NYFW party. Sansho Scott/BFA.com / Shutterstock
We hear Akiva is set to open a new, permanent 1Oak downtown in February. He is shown here at the former Las Vegas outpost in 2012. WireImage

A source tells Page Six that Akiva is working on reopening at a permanent spot downtown in February. 

1Oak was opened in 2007 by Akiva and former business partner Scott Sartiano. The hotspot quickly came to define the bottle-service era, pulling in celebrities like Drake, Jay-Z, Pharrell Williams, Justin Bieber, Lenny Kravitz, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan.

It was the spot where Yankees Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter celebrated their 2009 World Series victory, and Matt Harvey infamously partied so hard that he failed to show up the next day for a Mets game in 2017.

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