THE COFFEE HOUSE

‍ ‍

2026 Spring Calendar

Friday, May 15th | 4pm @ the Salmagundi
The Coffee House Friday speaker series at the Salmagundi
with Peter Goldberg of the Envision Freedom Fund*

(*Envision Freedom Fund works alongside impacted communities to dismantle the oppressive and interconnected criminal legal and immigration systems. With freedom as their guiding principle, EFF invests in innovative campaigns and programs that aim to win long-term, transformative change, while meeting the urgent needs of community members in the present)

RSVP HERE

Wednesday, May 20th @ the Salmagundi
The Talk of the Town
Broadway Producer Nelle Nugent Returns
with Victoria Wilson & Foster Hirsch
RSVP HERE

Wednesday, May 27th @ the Salmagundi
The Scandalous Hamiltons
with Bill Schafer
RSVP HERE

Wednesday, June 3rd @ 3 West
This Week in New York, an Anniversary celebration
with CHC Member Mark Rifkin and Special Guests
RSVP HERE

Wednesday, June 10th @ 3 West
Alex Leonard Performs

Wednesday, June 17th at the Salmagundi
Les Bleus Literary Salon

Wednesday, June 24th
Bruce Barnes Performs

Wednesday, July 1st
Janice Friedman Performs

Wednesday, July 8th
Screenwriter/Author Howard Rodman

Wednesday, July 15th
Award-Winning Historian Tripp Evans

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE COFFEE HOUSE PODCAST

Curious about membership? Want to join our mailing list?

Email us at: coffeehouseclub@hotmail.com

Notable Past Members

Frank Crowninshield founded the Coffee House. Crowninshield was a successful editor, a good friend of Condé Nast and founding editor of Vanity Fair Magazine.

Mary Perot Nichols, twice the head of WNYC and Village Voice columnist, was a member of the Coffee House.

The artist Maxfield Parrish was a longtime member of the Coffee House.

Legendary actor and Oscar winner, Douglas Fairbanks, was a member of the Coffee House.

Harold Ross, founding editor of the New Yorker Magazine, was a member of the Coffee House.

Dona Guimaraes, editor of the New York Times Home & Design Section, was a member of the Coffee House.

Celebrated author and the second female president of the American Academy of the Arts, Hortense Calisher, was a member of the Coffee House.

Famed New York Magazine theater critic, Edith Olivier, was a member of the Coffee House.

Maxwell Perkins, the legendary Scribner & Sons editor, who discovered F. Scot Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, was a member of the Coffee House.

Nobel laureate Eugene O’Neill was a member of the Coffee House. He is the only playwright to win four Pulitzer Prizes for drama.

The great Irving Berlin was a member of the Coffee House.

Andy Logan, one of the first women writers for the New Yorker Magazine, and called the “Dean of City Hall” for her tough local reportage, was a member of the Coffee House.

Renowned comedic author, PG Wodehouse, was a member of the Coffee House.

New Yorker cartoonist, Charles Addams, was a member of the club. For the magazine, he would create the cartoon series, The Addams Family, which would go onto become an American television and film institution.

The one-and-only Cole Porter was a member of the Coffee House.

What We’ve Been Up to of Late…

Notable Past Members

For all inquiries, email: coffeehouseclub@hotmail.com