THE COFFEE HOUSE

2026 Winter/Spring Calendar

Wednesday, January 7th @ 4pm

- Sherlock Holmes and the Nefarious Baron -

Hal Glatzer presents Sherlock Holmes and the Nefarious Baron –an audio-play performed in old-time-radio style, with Simon Jones as Sherlock Holmes—at 4 p.m. in the Parlor. Doors open at 3:30. There is no admission charge, and no reserved seats. For more information, email: info@halglatzer.com

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Friday, January 9th
Coffee House Friday Lunch Speaker Series
Author Atash Yaghmaian
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Wednesday, January 14th
Reunion Film Series Returns
Screening of festival shorts by leading young filmmakers
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Wednesday, January 21st
Relegation Reader Launch
A new anthology of contemporary writing surveying scenes in Europe and the U.S., edited by Paris-based author Will Mountain Cox
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Friday, January 23rd
Coffee House Friday Lunch Speaker Series
Author & NyTimes Art Critic Will Heinrich
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Wednesday, January 28th
August Ventura Returns for a Night of Giuseppe Verdi
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Friday, January 30th
Coffee House Friday Lunch Speaker Series
William Roka | Village Preservation

Wednesday, February 4th
First Wednesdays Musical Event
With Brian Gari

Wednesday, February 11th
Author Leigh Abramson

Wednesday, February 18th
Talk of the Town
With Victoria Wilson and Foster Hirsh

Wednesday, February 25th
Historian Peter Cipkowski on Willa Cather

Wednesday, March 4th
First Wednesdays Musical Event
With Mary Foster Conklin

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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.

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