{"id":1387,"date":"2009-02-16T16:02:36","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T23:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/02\/i-like-to-ping-and-pong-it\/"},"modified":"2009-02-16T16:04:39","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T23:04:39","slug":"i-like-to-ping-and-pong-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/16\/i-like-to-ping-and-pong-it\/","title":{"rendered":"I Like To Ping And Pong It…"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the The NY Observer<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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New York’s Priapic Prince of Ping-Pong<\/h1>\n

Franck Raharinosy is ready to paddle Manhattan\u2019s smart set.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

BY<\/span>\u00a0SPENCER MORGAN<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hands<\/p>\n

Danny Kim<\/em><\/p>\n

Hands off, ladies! Mr. Raharinosy is engaged!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The Prince of Madagascar lives in a penthouse apartment at the National Arts Club, overlooking the barren trees and locked gates of Gramercy Park. The Prince loves Ping-Pong. His mission is to properly introduce Ping-Pong to Manhattan; he\u2019s plotting Ping-Pong establishments all over the city.<\/p>\n

So went the tale around a recent party at the National Arts Club for Argentine artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, whose works include a $40,000 Ping-Pong table made of mirrored glass.\u00a0\u201cHave you heard about the Prince who lives in the Penthouse? He\u2019s about to open an exclusive Ping-Pong club.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0The party featured an exhibition match between a pair of 14-year-old Nigerian-born twins and 78-year-old U.S. singles champion Marty Reisman.<\/p>\n

The Prince is Franck Raharinosy, a 33-year-old fledgling filmmaker and Ping-Pong impresario who last week signed a 15-year lease for the 13,000-square-foot basement of 304 Park Avenue. In the past six months, Mr. Raharinosy says, he and three business partners have raised close to $1.5 million to build Spin, a 14-table Ping-Pong social club, which will include a natty members-only lounge designed by Todd Oldham and sponsored by sportswear designer Fred Perry. They hope to open in May.<\/p>\n

Until last spring Messrs. Raharinosy, Jonathon Bricklin and Bill Mack lived together in a Tribeca loft, which also served as offices for their film production company, Ridiculous Inc., which produces movies, music videos, celebrity events and documentaries such as\u00a0The Entrepreneur,<\/em>\u00a0which tells the story of Mr. Bricklin\u2019s father, Malcolm Bricklin, who founded Subaru of America when he was 28; the movie will be showing in New York later in the year. In the loft, of course, was a Ping-Pong table. The sporting fellows started throwing twice-weekly \u201cNaked Ping-Pong\u201d parties, sometimes featuring pro players and always featuring attractive women. There was no nudity but, according to Mr. Mack, \u201cthere was a steady flow of women in and out of Franck\u2019s room. \u2026 He\u2019s definitely had sex on the Ping-Pong table. His numbers are really high.\u201d<\/p>\n

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from the The NY Observer New York’s Priapic Prince of Ping-Pong Franck Raharinosy is ready to paddle Manhattan\u2019s smart set.\u00a0 BY\u00a0SPENCER MORGAN\u00a0\u00a0 Danny Kim Hands off, ladies! Mr. Raharinosy is engaged! The Prince of Madagascar lives in a penthouse apartment at the National Arts Club, overlooking the barren trees and locked gates of Gramercy Park. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}