The New York Athletic Club was founded in 1868 and is located in New York City. Prior to the 2000 Olympic Games, NYAC members had won 115 Olympic gold medals, 40 silver medals and 47 bronze medals, more than all but four nations.
In November 2003, the club was the site of a four game chess match between Garry Kasparov and the computer program X3D Fritz.
The NewYorkAthleticClub was founded in 1868 by Henry Buermeyer, John Babcock and William Curtis.
Though all were men of vision, none could have foreseen the impact their club would have on the world of amateur and Olympic sport.
NYAC members have included some of the most celebrated names from the sporting world and beyond, George M. Cohan, Robert Ripley, Al Oerter Bruce Baumgartner, Tim Daggett and Wolf Wigo among them.
NewYork City was the birthplace of rowing in the United States and continued to be a center of rowing activity
Fortunately, a new era in city government and participation by private non-for-profit organizations have recognized the value of public access to and use of the waterfront and may mean the resurgence of rowing's legacy in NewYork City.
Many of the clubs, such as the First Bohemian, were composed primarily of immigrants from one ethnic group, who hoped to continue the traditions of boating they had learned in their homeland.
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