The crowd upstairs at the Railway are mostly middle-aged, and around three-quarters are men.
By midnight the line stretches down the block, and the crowd upstairs is shoulder to shoulder until closing.
They were going to make one last attempt to assail the crowd upstairs.
The crowd upstairs was generally orderly, but broke into loud boos at times to drown out speakers who took the microphone.
THURSDAY night is gallery trolling night in Chelsea, so it was not surprising last week to find a crowd upstairs at the Max Lang gallery, examining the early works of the interior designer Scott Sanders.
The Duplex is a cabaret/hangout with a mixed crowd – an especially good place to hang at when the weather is warmer, given the cruisey outside patio (and on Saturdays, there's a big lesbian crowd upstairs).
Indeed, the crowd upstairs was wobbling room only, a sight reminiscent of Moomba's very first days back in 1997, when Leo once juggled four models at a single table and began work on his second chin.
Senator John Edwards of North Carolina walked into a senior citizen center here on Tuesday and took in yet another packed house: every chair was filled, and an overflow crowd upstairs peered over the balcony at the presidential candidate dressed in a suit and sneakers.
On a recent Friday night, there are fewer choices to make, with only one live music act: Brown, a local funk band that draws an age-diverse, local Jersey shore crowd upstairs, making conversation difficult and keeping the bartenders (Britney Spears- and Back Street Boys-lookalikes) busy.
A few patrons trying computers downstairs were surprised to find chat windows popping up on the screens; some awkwardly waved back to the crowd upstairs.
