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History
The Downtown Athletic Club was originally a club and later a skyscraper clubhouse as well. Founded in 1926 by a group of Lower Manhattan businessmen, the club first installed itself in the Singer Building, since demolished, on Broadway. According to Christopher Gray, the buildings and landmarks columnist for The New York Times, “From later reports it is clear that these men, headed by Schuyler Van Vechten Hoffman, a financier, had an entirely separate building in mind from the start.”