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CORE:
The club describes "a global community of relentlessly curious individuals" whose members "shape the worlds of art and architecture, sports and entertainment, technology and science, fashion and design and beauty, investment and finance, culinary and hospitality, industry and biotech"
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Founding — Founded by Jennie Enterprise (nee Saunders), previously the founder of Reebok Sports Clubs, with seed money and space from property developer Aby Rosen. One hundred founder members were each asked to contribute US$100,000 and to nominate another person.
CORE: is a private members' club founded in New York in 2005 by Jennie Enterprise. It ran from 66 East 55th Street until 2023, when it moved to 711 Fifth Avenue, occupying roughly 60,000 square feet across the top four floors of a 1927 building with more than 6,000 square feet of outdoor space and a lobby by Peter Marino. The clubhouse contains a library, theatre, art gallery, several dining rooms, private meeting rooms, a wine library, a speakeasy, a 24-hour gym, spa and beauty facilities, and eleven suites for overnight stays. The club positions itself around cultural programming, philanthropy and cross-industry mixing rather than around a single profession, and its own materials name art, sport, entertainment, technology, science, fashion, finance, hospitality and biotech as member fields. A second club is being built in Milan, in a palazzo on Corso Matteotti near the Duomo; until it opens, Milan members use a temporary lounge at Via della Spiga 15 in the Quadrilatero della Moda.
How it works
Membership is arranged through an enquiry form on the club's website rather than an open application. Members use the New York clubhouse for dining, meetings, wellness and overnight stays, and are offered a curated calendar of cultural programming, talks and philanthropic events. Milan members currently gather at the temporary Via della Spiga lounge for social, cultural and professional events pending completion of the permanent clubhouse.
Typical member
Members are drawn from the wealthier end of New York business, finance and cultural life. Founder members named in press coverage included J. Christopher Burch, Millard Drexler, Ari Emanuel, Aby Rosen, Steven Roth, Stephen Schwarzman and Terry Semel; the club has said it maintains an equal number of female and male members.
Membership requirements
Requirements in detail, with history →Requirements are the tests the organization itself publishes — an age ceiling, a company-revenue floor, a net-worth minimum, a role. Where a figure straddles a range, the organization's own assessment decides. Local chapters can apply stricter tests than the published standard.
| Criterion | Published requirement | Provenance |
|---|---|---|
| Other criterion | No published qualifying test; the club says it curates members who are "energized by cultural exploration, committed to community engagement, inspired by original perspectives, drawn to support philanthropic causes" | Verified September 2026High confidenceSource ↗ |
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Initiation fees are paid once on joining; dues recur. Chapter dues, retreats, travel and events are usually additional and are listed separately when the organization discloses them. Figures are as published or reported on the date shown — not quotations.
| Cost | First year | Three years | Provenance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annual dues | Annual fee reported by Elle in June 2018. | Source ↗ | |
| Annual dues | Wikipedia states annual dues of US$15,000 for an individual and US$18,000 for a couple. Uncited in the article; low confidence. | Source ↗ | |
| Initiation fee | Individual initiation fee as reported by Elle in June 2018, alongside a US$17,000 annual fee. This is the most recent figure attached to a named publication and is now eight years old. | Source ↗ | |
| Initiation fee | Wikipedia states the price to join ranges from US$15,000 for an individual to US$100,000 for a Founding membership. The statement carries no citation in the article, so it is recorded here at low confidence. | Source ↗ | |
| Initiation fee | Founding membership: the club's 100 founder members were each asked to contribute US$100,000 and to nominate another person, per The New York Times (2011) and Entrepreneur. | Source ↗ | |
Structure and programming
Where it operates
2 cities with a page on this site| Chapter or location | City |
|---|---|
| CORE: Milano clubhouse | Milan |
| CORE: New York clubhouse | New York |
Independent context
CORE: sits at the expensive end of the New York club market and has always been more explicitly about wealth and access than the creative-industries clubs it is usually compared with. That is reflected in its founding structure, where 100 people paid US$100,000 each to seed the club. The club publishes nothing about price, membership numbers or how candidates are assessed, so every figure in the public record comes from journalism, most of it now several years old; treat the fee figures below as dated rather than current. The Milan project has slipped: Bloomberg reported a December 2026 opening back in January 2022, and as of September 2026 the club's own site still describes the permanent palazzo as under development with members using a temporary lounge.
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Site-wide change log →- threshold changeJennie Enterprise opens the CORE: Club at 66 East 55th Street, Manhattan, after Aby Rosen offers seed money and space; a further US$10 million is raised from members ↗
- fee changeElle reports an initiation fee of US$50,000 and an annual fee of US$17,000 ↗
- milestoneBloomberg reports the club's expansion plans, including a 40,000 square foot Milan location on Corso Giacomo Matteotti scheduled for December 2026 ↗
- fee changeThe club moves to 711 Fifth Avenue, occupying roughly 60,000 square feet across the top four floors, in a scheme by m2atelier with a lobby by Peter Marino ↗
- milestoneThe club's own site describes CORE: Milano's permanent palazzo on Corso Matteotti as still in development, with members using a temporary lounge at Via della Spiga 15 ↗
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Sources
- CORE: | Private Members Club | New York, Milano, The CORE: Club. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 1
- Locations - CORE:, The CORE: Club. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 1
- Membership - CORE:, The CORE: Club. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 2
- Mr. Mover, Meet Ms. Shaker, The New York Times, August 2005. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 6
- The Bucks Stop Here, The New York Times, June 2011. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 6
- Is New York's Romance With Social Clubs Merely a Pandemic Love Affair?, Bloomberg News, January 2022. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 6
- CORE Club, Wikipedia. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 8
- You Can Get In Anthony Scaramucci's Exclusive Social Club - If You Have $67,000 and "a Story to Tell", Elle, June 2018. Accessed 6 September 2026.tier 8
Source tiers follow the published hierarchy: 1 official site · 2 official membership materials · 3 application documents · 4 annual reports · 5 government filings · 6 reliable business publications · 7 credible interviews · 8 other reputable secondary sources. Sources and data policy.
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