From left: RFR Holdings’ Aby Rosen, Blackstone Group’s Stephen Schwarzman, architect Richard Meier and a Core Club suite
In 2005, RFR Holdings head Aby Rosen gave Jennie Saunders the first six floors of the condominium he was building at 60 East 55th Street to house her club for the rich and famous.
As a recent profile in Departures magazine highlighted, the club, known as Core Club, has become a haven for New York elites from all industries, including Blackstone Group President Stephen Schwarzman, architect Richard Meier, football legend Dan Marino and Hollywood talent agent Ari Emanuel. Many of those same people were among the 150 people who invested $100,000 to get Core Club off the ground.
The club has renowned chefs (in fact, the first chef, Dan Kluger was poached by Jean-Georges Vongerichten for ABC Kitchen), one of the city’s best barbers, a renowned facialist, a massage parlor, a gym, famous artworks hanging from the walls, a library and a screening room — all for a $50,000 initiation fee and $15,000 in annual dues.
