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The Brook is a private club located at 111 East 54th Street in Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1903 by a group of prominent men who belonged to other New York City private clubs, such as the Knickerbocker Club and the Union Club. [1] The name is derived from the Alfred Lord Tennyson poem The Brook, whose lines "For men may come ...
The club's first permanent headquarters was an existing two-and-one-half-story residence at 42 East 15th Street, later redesignated 109–111, between Union Square East and Irving Place. Built in about 1847 and purchased by the Century Association in 1857 for $24,000, the dwelling was extensively remodeled four times during its 34 years as a ...
El Morocco, sometimes nicknamed Elmo or Elmer, was a 20th-century nightclub in the Manhattan borough of New York City. It was frequented by the rich and famous from the 1930s until the decline of café society in the late 1950s. It was known for its blue zebra -stripe motif, designed by Vernon MacFarlane, and its official photographer, Jerome ...
Designated NYCL. January 11, 1967. The University Club of New York (also known as University Club) is a private social club at 1 West 54th Street and Fifth Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Founded to celebrate the union of social duty and intellectual life, the club was chartered in 1865 for the "promotion of ...
Coordinates. 40°45′33.7″N 73°58′15.4″W. / 40.759361°N 73.970944°W / 40.759361; -73.970944. Jimmy Weston's Restaurant & Jazz Club was an American restaurant and jazz club in New York City, located on East 56th Street beginning in 1963, then, seven years later, moved it to 131 East 54th Street. Tommy Furtado was selected as ...
Eddie Condon's was the name of three successive jazz venues in New York run by jazz banjoist, guitarist, and bandleader Eddie Condon from 1945 until the mid-1980s. [1] In 1975, Red Balaban took over the management of the club. [2] Ed Polcer was also a part-owner at the time of the club's closing. [1] Tony Parenti, Wild Bill Davison, and Eddie ...
Designated NYCL. January 11, 1967. The William H. Moore House, also known as the Stokes-Moore Mansion and 4 East 54th Street, is a commercial building in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It is along 54th Street 's southern sidewalk between Madison Avenue and Fifth Avenue. The building was designed by McKim, Mead & White and ...
The Embers (nightclub) Coordinates: 40.7588°N 73.9699°W. The Embers was a 1950s and 1960s-era New York City restaurant and nightclub formerly located at 161 East 54th Street between 3rd and Lexington Avenues. [1] It was opened in late 1951 by former jazz musician Ralph Watkins, [2] who had also been involved with clubs such as Bop City and ...