The time is right to join the Players Club on Gramercy Park. The private club has slashed its initiation fee of $2,000 (on average) to as low as $125, if you’re below the age of 35 and a member of a performing-arts union.
The club — where Ethan Hawke (inset) plays pool and Jimmy Fallon hosts his Christmas party — is adding members, climbing out of debt and has nearly finished renovating the façade of its mansion.
“Every private club is struggling these days, but the Players just needs to be shaken up and revitalized,” new president Johnnie Planco told me. “I think the future is rosy.”
The club sold a John Singer Sargent portrait for $750,000 and raised another $800,000 in member donations.