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The club's board voted in 1933 to borrow $200,000; by then, the club was recording a $50,000 annual deficit, and real-estate taxes had tripled compared to before World War I. [107] With the repeal of Prohibition that year, the club applied to the New York state government for a liquor license. [108]
Parts of the lower levels of the building are leased to the River Club, a private club that counts slightly more than half of the building's shareholders among its 900 or so members. [3] [5] It was the first social club with well-known members to accept both men and women. It featured a swimming pool, a terrace overlooking the East River ...
The New York Athletic Club is a private social club and athletic club in New York state. Founded in 1868, [ 1 ] the club has approximately 8,600 members and two facilities: the City House, located at 180 Central Park South in Manhattan , and Travers Island , located in Westchester County .
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.
The Century Association is a private social, arts, and dining club in New York City, founded in 1847. Its clubhouse is located at 7 West 43rd Street near Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan . It is primarily a club for men and women with distinction in literature or the arts.
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 Union League Club is a private social club in New York City that was founded in 1863 in affiliation with the Union League. Its fourth and current clubhouse is located at 38 East 37th Street on the corner of Park Avenue, in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan. It was designed by Benjamin Wistar Morris and opened on February 2, 1931. [1]
The Penn Club of New York (usually referred to as Penn Club) is an American 501(c)7 not-for-profit, private social club located on Clubhouse Row [5] in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. The club's 14-story building, which is a designated landmark, is located at 30 West 44th Street and initially was occupied by The Yale Club ...