The call came in around midnight on Thursday, April 12, and the police officers of Manhattan’s Midtown North Precinct did a double take at the address.
One Hundred Eighty Central Park South.
“A large fight,” Sgt. Kenneth Monahan recalled, “in the New York Athletic Club. Which was an unusual call to begin with.”
Across the city, in cemeteries marked with fancy mausoleums, former members of the 144-year-old New York Athletic Club began spinning. This was not good. The police were coming! This was not a civilized start to the weekend, which begins at the club every Friday at 5 p.m., when the dress code relaxes from a mandatory jacket to an optional jacket. What in heaven’s name had happened to prompt a 911 call from inside the building?
"The best fight I've ever seen," in the words of one onlooker. Read the rest of it here.
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