Columbia University Club
The Columbia University Club of New York was founded in 1901 and is currently in residency in the Princeton Club of New York's building on 15 W. 43rd St. This is across the street from the Club's own old building (3 W. 43rd St.) which they sold to the World Unification Church (The Moonies) in 1973, when the club was wholly dissolved thanks to financial constraints and lack of interest in membership.
The club was later revived and shares space with the New York Princeton Club. Today, alumni of all ages, graduate students, and even undergraduate students can become members and gain access to the Princeton Club's facilities.
Future plans
Many alumni have expressed dissatisfaction with the space-sharing arrangement, which they find demeaning for Columbians. The Princeton club, they complain, makes few allotments for Columbia accoutrements or community. Various plans have been floated to re-purchase the old clubhouse across the street for exclusively Columbia purposes or to open a branch of the club downtown, near the original site of King's College.
