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ISSUE 11 SUMMER 2014 NEWSLETTER OF PRINCETON CLUB OF NEW YORK NewYorkCityisfilledwithwonderfuleventsallsummerlong.TheClubhas SUMMER IN THE CITY unbeatable hotel room discounts so you can enjoy all that NYC has to offer. City Happenings Stay with Us SUMMERSTAGE MACY’S 4TH OF JULY FIREWORKS HALF-PRICED SUNDAY JUNE THROUGH SEPTEMBER FRIDAY, JULY 4 SUNDAY, MAY 25 – SUNDAY AUGUST 31 City Parks Foundation presents performances of The iconic fireworks display will return to the East Whether you’re staying for a few days or just outstanding artistic quality in select parks, citywide. River this year. The light show starts at 9:00pm. one, any Sunday stay from Memorial Day to Check it out: SummerStage.org Check it out: social.macys.com/fireworks Labor Day is 50% off! Please contact the front desk at 212.596.1200 for more information. HOUSE HUNTING SPECIAL FOR CLASS OF 2014, 2015, AND 2016 ONLY BIG APPLE BARBECUE BLOCK PARTY HONG KONG DRAGON BOAT FEST MONDAY, MAY 26 – MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 SATURDAY, JUNE 7 – SUNDAY, JUNE 8 SATURDAY, AUGUST 9 – SUNDAY, AUGUST 10 $99 + tax for a single room This weekend long event in Madison Square Park More than 120 dragon boat teams converge on $149 + tax for a queen, full or twin room boasts award-winning barbecue, live music, daily Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park For reservation requests, please contact Katie seminars, and Southern-inspired fare. Admission is to compete. Check it out: hkdbf-ny.org in the Membership Office at 212.596.1216 free. Check it out: bigapplebbq.org PRIDE WEEK SPECIAL SATURDAY, JUNE 21 – SUNDAY, JUNE 29 Get 15% off when you stay at the Club during NYC Pride Week festivities. US OPEN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS MONDAY, AUGUST 25 THROUGH Please contact the front desk at 212.596.1200 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 for more information. For two weeks each year, the USTA Billie Jean King 15 West 43rd Street National Tennis Center in Queens features the (between 5th and 6th Avenues) world’s top players, fine food, and the best celebrity New York, NY 10036 sightings. Check it out: usopen.org PAGE 2 00 NEWSLETTER OF PRINCETON CLUB OF NEW YORK PRINCETONIANS IN THE SPOTLIGHT The Princeton Triangle Club TigersonBroadway Founded well over 100 years ago, The Princeton Saturday afternoon on April 26, members and Triangle Club is the oldest collegiate touring alumni attended a Q&A session with Beautiful: musical-comedy troupe in the nation. On March The Carol King Musical’s writer Douglas McGrath 28 and March 29, a combined audience of over ’80 and Jarrod Spector ’03, a performer from 200 people enjoyed the young Princetonians as the show. This event was presented by The they sang and danced filling both nights with Princeton Arts Alumni Association, The Class their undergraduate talent and flair! of 1980, and The Princeton Club of New York. Some of Triangle’s alumni include: • Legendary novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald ‘17 • Multiple Tony award-winning director Joshua Logan ‘31 • Oscar-winning actor José Ferrer ‘34 • Sesame Street composer Jeff Moss ‘63 • Movie and TV star Brooke Shields ‘87 Professor Bernard Haykel As part of a series featuring Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies faculty associates speaking on key world issues, Professor Bernard Haykel shared his knowledge regarding the Arab Spring and the Arabian peninsula on Wednesday, April 30. He touched on his current explorations on Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, and also voiced concerns over the political and social pressures that arise from religious identity. New York offers the best of everything, so take it all in from the Bronx to On the Town the Battery with fellow members at tours, live performances, and more! The University Club Woolworth Building Tour of Bartow-Pell Neue Gallerie Italian Futurism, Private Luncheon Lobby Tour Conservancy and Degenerate Art 1909-1944: and Tour THURSDAY, JUNE 5, Luncheon Tour and Lunch at Reconstructing the 11:00AM TUESDAY, JUNE 17, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, Demarchelier Universe Tour at the 12:00PM COST: $35 PER PERSON 10:30AM THURSDAY, JUNE 12, Guggenheim Museum COST: $85 PER PERSON (LUNCH AND COST: $79 PER PERSON 11: 45A M TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, HOST: JOHN MOORE TRANSPORTATION FOR TOUR, LUNCH, AND COST: $75 PER PERSON FOR 11:00AM A limited number of members NOT INCLUDED) TRANSPORTATION TOUR, LUNCH AND ONE COST: $75 PER PERSON FOR are invited for lunch in a private HOST: PRUDENCE JACKSON HOST: ROBERT PHILLIPS GLASS OF WINE TOUR AND LUNCH dining room and a tour at The This tour includes discussion Thomas Pell purchased the land HOST: MARILYN DELALIO HOST: ROBERT PHILLIPS University Club (founded in of the Woolworth Building’s in what is now Pelham Bay Park Avoid the crowds and sign 1865) inside the iconic building highly ornamented exterior and in 1654 from the Siwanoy Indians. Five years in the making, this up for a spot on this docent- on the corner of West 54th ornate lobby which was granted The Bartow-Pell 3-story Greek is the first comprehensive led tour of this blockbuster Street and 5th Avenue. landmark status in 1983. See the revival mansion was built in the overview of Italian Futurism to be exhibition of Degenerate Art: The building is listed in The unique terra-cotta exterior, the 1830s by Pell family descendant presented in the United States. The Attack on Modern Art in National Register of Historic grand marble staircase and the Robert Bartow and his wife This multidisciplinary and stylish Nazi Germany, 1937. This is the Places. A work by the fabled glass mosaic ceiling. Hear about Maria Lorillard. The interior exhibition examines the historical first major exhibition devoted to architectural firm of McKim, construction of the building and has been fully restored to its sweep of the movement from the infamous display of modern Mead and White, it was its historical role in the creation 19th century appearance with its inception by the poet F.T. art by the Nazi’s since the 1991 completed in 1899. Its enormous of the skyscraper and the New important period furnishings by Marinetti to its demise in 1994. presentation at the Los Angeles library is among the most noted York City skyline. New York cabinet makers and The exhibit includes over 300 Museum of Art. Among the interiors of New York, with an painters. It is a national and New works including paintings, Following the tour, the group will art shown are paintings by Max unforgettable, glittering ceiling York City historical landmark. sculpture, architecture, design, enjoy lunch in the Woolworth Beckmann, Paul Klee, etc. dating in mosaic. ceramics, and many others. One Tower Kitchen Restaurant at After the tour, the group will take from 1910. Highlights include 12:15pm. of the highlights is Balla’s painting a short bus ride for lunch on the a number of works shown in “Automobile in Corso” which Please meet the group at 11:00am bay at the Sea Shore Restaurant. Munich in 1937. recently sold for $11.5 million at in the lobby of the Woolworth Please meet the group at 10:30am Following the tour, the group Sotheby’s. Building at 233 Broadway. at the Princeton Club for the bus, will take the short walk to the After the tour, the group will which will return to the Club after restaurant for lunch at 1:00pm. partake in a three course lunch at lunch. Please meet the group at 11:30am the Wright Restaurant. All reservations are final sale. at the Neue Gallerie 1048 Fifth Please meet the group promptly Avenue. at 11:00am in the lobby of the Reservations are strictly limited. Guggenheim at 1071 5th Avenue and 89th Street. All reservations are final sale. www.princetonclub.com A E 0SME 2014 THE MEMBER EXPERIENCE PAGE PAGE 00SUMMER 3 FROM THE PRESIDENT Dear Fellow Members – Springtime brings an expanded focus on our outreach to membership of the PCNY, and to that end, I want to share both our progress in meeting member expectations and our plans for continuing that progress in the months to come. Our Community and Clubhouse. Over the past several months, we have A Key Investment Not Visible to the Eye. The Club has invested in a Cloud- continued to successfully deliver on two key member priorities: based information technology system to allow for integrated information • Develop a broad range of opportunities to socially gather in management across our accounting, marketing and membership functions. our Clubhouse Over the next few months, members who interact with our website will notice considerable ease of digital communication when making reservations for Club • Offer varied and robust University-sponsored and University-related events, dining, and guestrooms, as well as improvements in bill pay and instant events for graduates, undergraduates, faculty and staff, and their families online account review. In addition, our professional staff continues to improve services throughout all Our systems were generations behind the times, and we believe all members Club functions, including food and beverage. will benefit from these upgrades. Last spring, we took on two additional member priorities: • Upgrade the appearance and functionality of the first floor and The Financial Front. A secondary set of technology improvements in our guestroom areas of the Clubhouse accounting system and the retooling of our financial department staff have • Expand business-related workspace for members in the Clubhouse improved our bottom line results over the past 12 months. Despite these For those of you who frequent the Clubhouse, you may ask why progress on monetary savings, operating expenses are increasing due to: these two priorities has been uneven, and it is important that this letter address • Labor cost increases those issues.