Bronx Intruders Invade Yale Club! At Least 2 Members "In a Snit!"

Today the rabble-rousing Post is reveling in allegations that the IRS is investigating the Yale Club for violating a requirement that 70% of its guest rooms be reserved for members in order to maintain tax-exempt status. While the IRS won't verify the claim, one pissy club member has blabbed about the brewing brouhaha. "In recent years, the club has become more like a hotel than the private club it is chartered to be," the unidentified member complains, airing a grievance about difficulties getting a room reserved at the special alumni rate of $215 a night (as opposed to $325 for nonmembers). And another disgruntled member, one Mrs. Harrison DeSilver, declares that the club has been just plain "crappy. I just want to put my feet up here, but instead, weddings are being shipped down from The Bronx." While that does sound simply abhorrent, Mrs. DeSilver might also want to steer clear of the club Wednesday night, when L.G.B.T. photographer Catherine Opie is scheduled to be feted.

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By John Del Signore in News on November 10, 2008 9:28 AM

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boogiedowner

We feel as if Mrs. DeSilver represents exactly what Ivy League schools should pray their graduates do NOT turn out like...

Your lowbrow friends in the Bronx,

www.boogiedowner.blogspot.com

Snoopy

Kayeesha. Real cute. But I sure hope the alumni member has some serious strength. But then again have you ever been up to the Yale campus? Outside the campus is just like Brownsville, except Brownsville is a little nicer.

NannyState

#1, have you seen her self-portraits? All the above applies. And it's a shame that the Yalie Network is losing its CentCom to "Bronx weddings". Maybe if that disgruntled member sticks around, he can catch a garter...with Kayeesha still in it.

Snoopy

Are women allowed in the Yale Club? I sure hope not.

Think2wice

(cue the patrician, Park Avenue dowager à la "House of Mirth")

Bronx weddings! Well!...I never.

Snoopy

What next, a Princeton or Harvard grad having a single malt scotch at the bar? Oh the horrors of it all.

Mr Mel

"Mark my words; this will end up with at least one old man in an expensive suit getting beer poured on him"

Or worse, Councilman Lipski could be on the balcony above him.

zodak

chuck bass would never put up with this.

Rob T Firefly

A stuffy private club being invaded by an army of eclectic outsiders? It's an 80s movie waiting to happen.

Mark my words; this will end up with at least one old man in an expensive suit getting beer poured on him.

matty

I imagine the guy who made the quote had an otter skin coat, a straw hat and a yale pennant in hand...

Peter

Weddings undoubtedly are a major source of revenue for the club. If it weren't for all the weddings the club might have to increase dues substantially, in fact it might not even be able to stay in business.