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Fifth Avenue and its environs are dotted with the (traditionally men's) clubs which serviced, and still cater to, its mainly wealthy population. When J.P. Morgan, William and Cornelius Vanderbilt, and their pals arrived on the social scene in the 1890s, established society still looked askance at bankers and financiers, and its Downtown clubs were closed to Morgan and anyone else it considered less than up to snuff. Never to be slighted or outdone, Morgan commissioned Stanford White to design him his own club, bigger, better and grander than all the rest – and so the Metropolitan Club at 1 East 60th St was born, an exuberant confection with a marvelously outrageous gateway. Just the thing for arriving robber barons. Another unwelcome group, affluent Jews, founded the elegant Harmonie Club in the 1850s and erected its home at 4 E 60th St around the same time. So many parvenus caused alarm, and in 1915 the Knickerbocker Club, a handsome brick Federal-style building on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 62nd Street, was erected in response to the "relaxed standards" of the Union Club (101 E 69th St), which had admitted several of Morgan's and Vanderbilt's friends. Before even the thought of admitting women to these hallowed bastions of old guard maleness occurred, there was the Colony Club on Park Avenue at 62nd Street, founded in 1903, and is the city's earliest social club organized by women for women. In 1933, Delano & Aldrich, the firm which had designed the Knickerbocker Club, constructed an elaborate Colonial building with extensive gymnasium and spa facilities as the Cosmopolitan Club, at 122 E 66th St. This was originally a place where rich women sent their governesses, but they eventually reclaimed the building for themselves. It's a strange apartment-block-like building, with white ironwork terraces reminiscent of New Orleans, and a private garden in the back. 5th Avenue Park Avenue 59th Street 60th Street 62nd Street 63rd Street 65th Street 66th Street 67th Street 69th Street 71st Street 79th Street 80th Street 84th Street 85th Street 86th Street 87th Street |
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