Guests sat for Polaroids outside the infamous Odeon bathroom. *Clockwise from top left:* Aria Dean and Antwaun Sargent; David Velasco; Sasha Melnychuk and Adam Zhu; Mike Crumplar; Madeline Quinn and KJ Rothweiler; Alana Champion.

Cosmopolitans, invented at the Odeon, were served. Front row, from left, Anna Carter, David Zaslav, Graydon Carter, John McDonald, Adam Zhu, Jay Strell, and Jay McInerney; second row, Iké Udé and J’Nai Bridges; third row, Laszlo Horvath, Aria Dean, SoiL Thornton, and Georgia Ford; fourth row, Rushka Bergman and Gaëlle Collet; fifth row, Legs McNeil and his dates.

*Clockwise from top left:* Natasha Stagg; Nathan King and Julia Vitale; Sean Price Williams; Emily Adams Bode; J’Nai Bridges; Iké Udé.

Front row, from left, Danny Gallegos, Wade Oates, Sasha Melnychuk, Coco Young, SoiL Thornton, Dese Escobar, and Prisca Franchetti; second row, Zoe Beyer and Jianna Justice; third row, Emily Adams Bode, Joana Avilez, Jazmine Hughes, Doreen St. Félix, Allison P. Davis, Louis Levy, Zoe Ruffner, and Andrew Wheeler; top row, Nate Freeman, David Leavy, Mercedes Kilmer, Ariana Papademetropoulos, Elena Clavarino, Shawn McCreesh, and Maureen Dowd.

*Top, from left:* Paulina Prosnitz and Carolina de Armas; Mike Eckhaus; Gia Kuan, Rachel Tashjian, Anatoly Kirichenko, Emma Cline, Sam Hine, Ebecho Muslimova, Anjali Lewis, and Lloyd Wise. *Above, from left:* SoiL Thornton; Joey Teeling and Ebecho Muslimova; James Emmerman.

*Clockwise from top left:* Zoe Beyer; Alex Vadukul; Prisca Franchetti; Tracy Ma; Giza and Stephane Timonier; Shawn McCreesh.

Top row, from left, Mike Crumplar, Matt Gasda, Isaac Soloway-Strozier, Judi Wong, John McDonald, Natasha Stagg, Danny Gallegos, Sean Price Williams, and Tracy Ma; second row, Navarre Rice, Camille Pelleray, Mike Eckhaus, and Joey Teeling; third row, Dean Kissick and KJ Rothweiler; fourth row, Georgia Ford, Nick Poe, and Madeline Quinn.

A Night at the Odeon

Jay McInerney, Emma Cline, and Iké Udé gathered at the Tribeca restaurant in celebration of AIR MAIL’s Downtown Set

By Elena Clavarino

Photographs by Daniel Paik

Those living in Lower Manhattan may not know which way true north is, but they will very likely be able to point you in the direction of the Odeon. Since the autumn of 1980, this restaurant on the corner of West Broadway and Thomas Street, in Tribeca, has served as a watering hole for artists (Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol), actors (Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese), writers (Tom Wolfe, Bret Easton Ellis and his literary-brat-pack pals), and the entire cast of Saturday Night Live.

This past Tuesday night, guests gathered at the Odeon for AIR MAIL’s celebration, hosted by Graydon Carter and sponsored by Celine, of “the Downtown Set”—the 50 young New Yorkers who are remaking the area below 14th Street in their own image.