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Private Membership Clubs Still Collect Dues, Despite Closures

As Covid-19 slogs on, the economics of such social clubs as Soho House and the Battery require member engagement—and funds—to ensure they make it to the other side of the pandemic.

Soho House New York, in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. — Soho House New York, in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District.
Source: Soho House

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April 30, 2020, 10:00 AM UTC

If you ask multiple Soho House members how they feel about the club’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, you’ll get a panoply of opinions.

“Soho House thinks they can charge people memberships during this pandemic? That is insane,” LNA Clothing Brand Director Ashley Glasson texted me the other day. “I was having a bad day, and this just really put me over the edge.”