How many exclusive members-only clubs can one island hold?
A photo of the club’s owner at San Vicente Bungalows, where photos aren’t allowed. Photo: Adam Amengual/The New York Times/Redux The update of the stuffy gentleman’s club, which took off with the arrival of Soho House in the Meatpacking District in 2003, is having another moment right now.
Klein saved it from all that with a renovation that seemed to give it a less seedy backstory. He saw an opening to create a retreat that was less glitzy than Soho House, which, with its aggressive IPO-driven expansion plans, has come to seem a bit too ubiquitous for some. .
The red-brick Jane Hotel, like the Bungalows, wasn’t built for the rich. It opened in 1908 as the American Seamen’s Friend Society Sailors’ Home and Institute with 156 rooms that cost 25 cents a night, catering to the needs of seamen when the West Side still was lined with piers. In 1912, it was used to house the survivors of the Titanic. In 1998, its theater was the original space where Hedwig and the Angry Inch was performed.
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