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In 1919, Cornelia Barnes Rogers and Eleanor Butler Alexander-Roosevelt, wife of Theodore Roosevelt Jr., along with General John J. Pershing, founded The Soldiers' and Sailors' Club to accommodate servicemen returning from overseas duty in World War I. The Club originally served only active duty enlisted male soldiers and sailors, but it now ...
On its website, the club emphasizes the social aspect of its leagues. Each and every league has a 'sponsor bar' where the players have a chance to meet each other over alcoholic drinks. There are post-game bar socials after each game, everyone is encouraged to participate post game as it is an integral part of the experience.
Poughkeepsie, Middletown, Newburgh, West Point, Goshen and southeastern New York; component of 845/329 overlay 914: 1947 Westchester County: 917: 1992 New York City: overlays with 212, 332, 347, 646, 718, and 929 929: 2011 New York City outside of Manhattan; component of 347/718/929 and 917 overlays 934: 2016 Suffolk County; component of 631/ ...
The club's main entrance. The current building is the club's sixth clubhouse and the third built specifically for the members. The prior two clubhouses were at Fifth Avenue and 21st Street, occupied from 1855 to 1903; and on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 51st Street, a limestone clubhouse occupied from 1903 to 1933.
The Ravenite Social Club was an Italian American heritage club at 247 Mulberry Street, in Little Italy, New York City. It was used as a mob hangout and the storefront later became a shoe store, and as of 2022 is a men's clothing store.
The Metropolitan Club is a private social club on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York. It was founded as a gentlemen's club in March 1891 by a group of wealthy New Yorkers led by the financier John Pierpont Morgan .
In 1950, The New York Times called the City Club of New York "a social club with a civic purpose" [1] whose members "fought for adequate water supply, the extension of rapid transit lines, lower costs of foreclosure in private homes, and the merit system in civil service, [as well as] ... traffic relief, the prevention of juvenile delinquency."
The Players (often inaccurately called The Players Club) is a private social club founded in New York City by the 19th-century Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth. The club is located in a mansion at 16 Gramercy Park, built in 1847. Booth bought the house in 1888, reserved an upper floor for his residence, and turned the rest into a clubhouse.