athletic club

The building is close to other amenities including restaurants, an upscale athletic club, hotels and stores.

Its first team, in 1882, had to play as the Clifton Athletic Club because of the school’s contempt for the emerging sport.

His days stretched to include a combination of training and coaching sessions at NYU in Greenwich Village, a club near Herald Square, Morehouse on the Upper West Side, the New York Athletic Club across from Central Park and back to Morehouse.

In May 1966, The New York Times described his performance at a New York Athletic Club meet in Pelham Manor, N.Y., where he finished in one minute and 48.3 seconds, as “exceptional under any circumstances.”

He was studying law at Georgetown when he was rejected for membership in the New York Athletic Club, where he would have been the first Black member.