The New York Athletic Cub on Central Park South might sound like a strange place to honor Veterans Day. But if the doormen let you take a look around this “Italian Renaissance Palazzo style” club founded in 1868, wander through the cavernous lobby.
On the right amid the club chairs and lounge areas is an entire wall with a plaque dedicated to the New York Athletic Club members who served in World War II. Within the plaque is a list of men who make up their “honored dead.”
World War II isn’t the only war worthy of a memorial. Besides the WWII wall are smaller plaques honoring those who died in Korea and Vietnam.
To my knowledge, the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq don’t have their own monuments inside the building—which opened in 1930 at Seventh Avenue on the former site of the magnificent circa-1880s Navarro Flats, one of the city’s most spectacular apartment complexes.
But there is a plaque commemorating the event that started those wars, listing the names of club members who were killed in the World Trade Center on 9/11.
Tags: Hidden War Memorials NYC, New York Athletic Club Building, New York Athletic Club Memorial, New York Athletic Club WWII Plaque, NYAC World Trade Center Memorial, Veterans Day in New York City
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November 8, 2021 at 8:03 am |
The War Memorial in Cadman Plaza Park in Brooklyn has a bronze plaque inside with the names of over 11,000 Brooklynites who died in World War II. The building is currently under renovation.
November 10, 2021 at 11:08 am |
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