[1] The club was founded in 1874, on the Harlem River at 130th Street in Manhattan, to encourage “Yachting and the cultivation of Naval Science and Seamanship”.
[3][4] At its peak in the early 1980s, membership consisted of approximately 290 families with 165 boats.
[1] World champion runner Lon Myers began his track career running for the club.
[1] Due to the recession and waning membership, the club ceased to exist in 2009 and was sold for $3.2 million to Cord Meyer Development.
In July 2012 demolition of the club began, the developers began on a new structure which today is the Knickerbocker Yacht Hotel designed to evoke a cruise ship.