He was frequently seen in the Manhattan discos with a succession of attractive women.

The elegant restaurant has become a trendy nightclub modeled after the Manhattan discos M. K. and Nell's.

David Thornton as Berrie Rafferty: The owner of the popular Manhattan disco, and Des's boss.

Pill-eating in a Manhattan disco, followed by skin-popping heroin in a South Bronx shooting gallery.

"New York is reserved for the rich and proud,/ But here comes the bridge and tunnel crowd," sings the ensemble in a number set in a Manhattan disco.

As a child, according to her mother, Ms. Burton did her homework at Arthur, the Manhattan disco over which Sybil Christopher presided in the 1960's.

"I always liked to get out there with the celebrities at Studio 54 and the Octagon," another Manhattan disco popular in the 1970's.

The main hall, where the group Jammin' Juice will play, will be decorated like a Manhattan disco.

It was, in fact, the once-trendy Manhattan disco Studio 54, where people used to be turned away for not being Beautiful.