Princeton Club of New York
15 West 43rd Street | Midtown | built 1962
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- 1866
Princeton alumni in New York form the association that becomes the Princeton Club
The club began in 1866 as an alumni association for Princeton graduates living in New York and took its present name when it reorganized in 1886. It incorporated as a club under state law on December 12, 1899. Its members were alumni and faculty of Princeton and 15 other affiliated schools, though unlike other clubs on Clubhouse Row it had no financial link to its university.
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- 1963
The Princeton Club moves into its new clubhouse at 15 West 43rd Street, its fourth home
The club settled into the ten-story clubhouse at 15 West 43rd Street in February 1963, the last of the four homes the club had since it incorporated. Inside were a pair of dining rooms, event space, a gym, squash courts and 58 bedrooms for guests. In its last years the club counted roughly 6,000 members.
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- 1998
The Columbia University Club of New York moves in as a club in residence
The Columbia University Club, which dates from 1901, sold its own clubhouse in the early 1970s and afterward lived inside other clubs, including the Cornell Club, the Women's National Republican Club and the Williams Club. In 1998 it began operating in residence at the Princeton Club, where it stayed until 2017, when it moved to the Penn Club on West 44th Street.
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- 2020
The club closes in the first weeks of the pandemic and later defaults on a $39.3 million mortgage
The Princeton Club shut in March 2020 and never fully reopened, losing about a third of its dues-paying members during the first year. In October 2021 it defaulted on $39.3 million of mortgage debt owed to Sterling National Bank. A company called 15 West 43rd Street LLC bought that loan in December 2021 and sued to foreclose in June 2022.
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- 2023
The clubhouse sells for $8 million to a shell company later tied to John Paulson
In December 2023 the building was sold for $8 million to a shell company, which was later revealed to be owned by the billionaire John Paulson. The same company had bought the club's defaulted loan two years earlier. The building was put up for sale in early 2025.
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