Tough guy from the Bronx who says his daddy owns 45 Marriotts threatened to mess up staff at Theater District club, but then he slipped on the stairs and fell on his nose, club says

The Boston Licensing Board will decide Thursday whether Legacy Boston on Warrenton Street could have done anything to prevent an incident in which an unruly man not allowed entrance near closing began trying to fight his way in, only to fall on the stairs and hit his nose hard enough to start it bleeding.

Legacy's owners and workers told the board today that a group of men showed up around 1:35 a.m. on Aug. 6. They immediately got ruffled by the $40 entry fee. At a hearing today, the woman handling the registry said she tried to give them a discount, given that closing time was at 2 a.m., but that they were still upset. One guy threw money at her and she decided, no, she wasn't going to let them in at all.

Club co-owner Charles Delpidio, standing nearby, came over and told them they couldn't enter. One of them then shoved Delpidio, 71, against a wall. A club security manager rushed over and begin to usher the shover up the stairs from the registry to the street - holding one of the man's arms behind the man's back to try to prevent any further attacks.

"I'm from the Bronx!" and if they were in the Bronx, "I would've shot you in the face!" the security manager told the board the man yelled. He also claimed Legacy was going to get in big trouble, because his father is a lawyer and "owned 45 Marriotts." As they went up, both fell on the stairs - and the man cut his finger on the stair railing he was trying to hold onto and then gave himself a nose bleeder when his face planted on the steps.

Neither the man nor his alleged Marriott-owning father attended today's hearing.

Delpidio, not hurt in the shoving, told the board: "The real question I really have here: Where were these guys before they came to us? ... We got these guys [showing up] after they'd been out all night [somewhere else]."