The Yale Club Invaded by the Bronx, Investigated By the IRS

The Yale Club Invaded by the Bronx, Investigated By the IRS

The Yale Club in New York is supposed to be a posh haven in the city for alumni of the respected Ivy League. Instead, complain some members, the club is being overrun by outsiders and worst of all many of these outsiders come from the Bronx.
 

The New York Post is reporting that lately the club has hosted a rash of weddings and one member insists the weddings primarily seem to involve people from the Bronx. Clearly, this is unacceptable. Furthermore, there have been so many nonmembers using the club that members have trouble getting rooms, using the gym or swimming. Not without having to run into these Bronxites outsiders.
 

This boom may not be good for the old Yalies but it is good for business… except that now the IRS is involved:

At the heart of the probe is an IRS requirement that the club reserve 70 percent of its 138 guest rooms for members in order to maintain its tax-exempt status, said the member. He says it is not doing so.

An IRS spokesman yesterday refused to say whether the agency was investigating.

According to the club's most recent tax filings, gross revenues for "public use of the club facilities" skyrocketed from $4.2 million in 2004 to almost $5.4 million two years later.

Uh oh, shit’s going down at the Yale Club. Harvard would never allow such riffraff and scandal.
 

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Anonymous
Mrs. DeSilver (who's quoted in the article) sounds like a fine example of what Ivy Leagues should hope their graduates do NOT turn out like.

Your lowbrow friends in the Bronx,
www.boogiedowner.blogspot.com
Posted 11/10/2008 10:34 AMReply
Anonymous
that's what you get for being elitist... the IRS on your ass Posted 11/10/2008 6:06 PMReply
Anonymous
Bust those fools! Posted 11/10/2008 6:18 PMReply
Anonymous
I'm an Ivy Leaguer living in the Bronx. What is the problem here? Posted 11/11/2008 10:26 PMReply
Anonymous
Why is it that it's only the Bronx people who are being targeted....I lived in the Bronx for the past 20 years. Did you forget that in the Bronx, we have Riverdale, Throgs Neck, CountryClub......middle class income residents??????? I am sure the place has not only been rented to residents fromt the Bronx, how about Queens, Brooklyn or they considered a highter class than people from the Bronx. You have insulted a "race." I would be careful the next time you chose how your word your articles. Posted 11/12/2008 12:49 PMReply
Anonymous
This article is a perfect example of why Yalies like me despise Yalies that are club members...

Yours truly,
YourIvyLeagueButtStillStinks
Posted 12/16/2008 11:14 PMReply

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