About This Club
Checkmate is an exclusive, highly vetted lifestyle (on-premises) club for high-net- worth entrepreneurs, executives, ceos, celebrities and everyone who enjoys the finer things in life. You must be attractive, height and weight proportioned, well mannered and polite.
Checkmate New York City, first opened it’s doors in 1995
rapidly becoming “the velvet rope of lifestyle clubs in America”
The club changed ownership in 2018, to the hands of Venezuelan/American nightlife entrepreneur Danny C.
His previous nightclubs and sex clubs include “the legendary”
Le Trapeze New York (ownership from 2006 to 2016), a partnership with the renowned SNCTM New York,
co-ownership of Buddha Bar Caracas, and Partnership/ collaboration with Les Chandelles Paris
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In Danny’s own words, (published in the New York Time):
“Checkmate has become our brainchild, we have created a concept for Checkmate New York where women are our priority. We designed an environment for women to feel sexy, and conformable. Our main policy is “NO SINGLE MEN EVER” and we have a strict vetting process, also members must maintain a classy attitude at our club. We have rules which other lifestyle clubs do not enforce. Cellphones must be put away to maintain and protect our member’s privacy.
When you step into Checkmate NYC you are greeted by an atmosphere that balances classic elegance with a modern design that incorporates lush elements which creates a very inviting space that echos erotism and sexiness.
A night at checkmate is a night for couples and single girls to dress up, wear sexy lingerie, dance, mingle and get intimate with people from all over the world”
CHECKMATE NEW YORK CITY is taking this lush concept to Miami in 2026 as
CHECKMATE MIAMI.