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The Long Island Yacht Club is a country club wedding venue in Babylon, New York. With views overlooking the scenic Great South Bay, this property makes a marvelous setting for milestone moments. The remarkable location and skilled staff will help make a couple's wedding celebration a fantastic occasion.
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This elegant venue features indoor and outdoor spaces to accommodate important events. Whether in the Clubhouse or out on the private beach and pool deck, visitors are sure to find the surroundings enjoyable.
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The Long Island Yacht Club hosts wedding ceremonies and receptions as well as engagement parties, showers, and rehearsal dinners. The venue's staff offers all-inclusive packages to make preparing for a wedding more straightforward. These include event planning, catering, bartending, setup, cleanup, and the use of wireless internet, get-ready rooms, and outside vendors. Their rental inventory includes chairs, tables, linens, tents, chair covers, centerpieces, decor, a dance floor, and a photo booth. Parking, valeting, and wheelchair-accessible services are available to add convenience and comfort for couples and their guests. The peak seasons for this venue stretch across April through May and September through October.
The culinary team of Long Island Yacht Club offers catering and bartending services for wedding festivities. Their catering options include stations, plated meals, family-style platters, buffets, hors d'oeuvres, and desserts. Tasting sessions are available ahead of a couple's wedding day to ensure their complete satisfaction. Bartending is available through a cash, open, or limited bar, with a wide range of beverages.
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The Long Island Yacht Club, seen here on Dec. 23, 2015, was a Babylon Village institution since 1958. It closed earlier this month due to falling membership and high upkeep costs, according to club officials. Credit: Daniel Goodrich
The Long Island Yacht Club — once led by Bob Keeshan, a Babylon Village resident who played television’s Captain Kangaroo — has closed.
The 57-year-old nonprofit — which offered swimming, boating and tennis at a Babylon Village estate with a Georgian mansion for a clubhouse — shut its doors Dec. 16 after running out of cash, club officers said.
“For the past two years, we’ve been aggressively pursuing new members, and all our attempts have not been successful,” said Steve Vid, an Amityville businessman who served as the club’s commodore. “We’ve done everything conceivable. The economy is not receptive to people spending this kind of discretionary money right now.”
The club, established on the grounds of a 7-acre Little East Neck Road estate in 1958, boasted tennis courts, restaurant fare, a swimming pool and slips for 74 vessels. Members came from across Long Island and paid about $10,000 a year.
In the 1960s, its 160 full members floated one of Long Island’s largest power boat fleets. But in recent years, fewer than half its slips were occupied, and after a handful of unexpected resignations this fall, only 14 full members remained.
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Personal rebuilding expenses after Hurricane Irene and superstorm Sandy led some members to resign, Vid said. Remaining members faced higher costs, and funds declined while operating expenses remained high.
“We ran out of money,” Vid said. “I’m sick about it. It’s out of my control.”
About eight employees are out of work, Vid said. Also lost will be dozens of summer jobs.
With yearly taxes and maintenance fees reaching into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, the club would need at least 40 full members to stay viable, he said.
While some members have discussed reopening the club, Vid said several developers interested in purchasing the property have approached club officers. The club is seeking legal and accounting advice before proceeding, and Vid said he expects answers to basic questions on unwinding club holdings in January.
Village Mayor Ralph Scordino described the club as a valued resource, despite occasional complaints from neighbors about noise and other quality-of-life issues over the years.
His administration supports continued operation at that location as a yacht club, Scordino said. He said prospective developers are likely “frothing at the mouth . . . [but] I would not be in favor of putting condominiums there.”
Lee Labiento, the club’s membership development chair and a professor of global health issues at Hofstra University, held out hope of a reorganization last week, even as she mourned the loss of a gathering place for area seniors and for her own family.
“It was another way we had summer life with our grandchildren,” she said, recalling summer swim teams and children’s enrichment classes she had taught since joining 12 years ago.
Bartender Gail Whittemore, 71, an employee since the late 1990s, said she had learned the club was closing only a few days before the doors shut. She cut in half the money she planned to spend on Christmas presents for her grandchildren and anticipated it would be hard or impossible to find another bartending job until after the holiday season.
“We had the fireplace going, and it was all decorated for Christmas,” she said. “I guess they didn’t have enough members to hold down the fort.”
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The new owners of the Long Island Yacht Club have just wrapped up a Labor Day weekend that featured live music Friday night, dinner and dancing Saturday and a pig roast and kids’ carnival on Sunday. Labor Day brunch followed.
The marina is now filled to capacity, with 11 on the waiting list.
It’s a far cry from when the historic Yacht Club reopened for the first time under new ownership for Memorial Day of 2016, just days after Rick Stettner and business partner Ned Hurley acquired the club on May 17.
In the run-up to that weekend, the big priority was the food. That, and making sure the lawn was cut at 307 Little East Neck Road South.
“The first thing we did was hire a chef and then the chef didn’t show up for Memorial Day, so we had to cook,” Hurley said. “We had a big barbecue, 200 people showed up and Rick and myself had to grill.”
“All while Eric was mowing the lawn,” added Stettner, speaking of his son Eric Stettner, now the Yacht Club’s general manager.
The Long Island Yacht Club was founded in 1958 and counts former longtime Babylon Village resident Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan) among its charter members. Before that, the mansion, which reportedly dates to 1911, served as a private residence.
Stettner and Hurley acquired the nearly seven-acre property and its mansion, which had shut down in December 2015, from the nonprofit club for about $2 million.
One of the first things the new owners did — aside from trimming the grass — was blow up the old model of what it means to belong to a yacht club.
p class=”p1″> “You don’t need a yacht to join,” said Eric Stettner, a 2016 University of Connecticut graduate. “We have about 80 members without boats.”
“But if you want to sail you have access to sailing,” added Hurley.
They also scrapped the $10,000 annual membership in favor of $1,500, and only operate the club full time between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
Members get access to the club, pool, tennis courts, sailing, swimming and tennis programs and daily camp activities for kids , as well as steep discounts on docking rights.
“It’s not about how much money you make; it’s about friendship,” said Hurley. “ As you get older, sometimes it can be hard to make friends. This is another outlet for people and families to meet other people and hang out without breaking the bank.”
Unlike most yacht clubs, there are no minimums on what people have to spend on drinks or dining, either.
“We do not enforce food or beverage minimums, which is out of the club tradition,” said Rick Stettner. “We wanted to build this on our reputation, and that’s why we have the great chef [Noah Weber] that we have here.”
In its first summer, in 2016, the club finished the season with 62 members. Now there’s 142 members. The goal is to get 300 members signed up, then start up the waiting list. (A household constitutes a member.) There are no residency restrictions.
On the offseason, the club will be available for weddings and other private parties for non-members. And they will be hosting their own events. Some events will be opened to the public and serve as membership drives.
The first such event will be an Oktoberfest party this fall.
“We have the most beautiful wedding venue; seven acres right on the the Great South Bay,” said Hurley. “We can seat 150 people inside and another 400 outside.”
Stettner, who lives in Oakdale, and Hurley, of New York City, have owned and operated Maple Avenue Marina together for some 17 years in Bay Shore.
When they learned of the Yacht Club’s financial troubles in 2015, they jumped.
“We read in Newsday they were having financial problems and called” Commodore Steve Vid, said Hurley.
But Vid told them to get to the back of the list of 40 others who were interested in buying the club and bulldozing it for waterfront townhouses.
“Then I said we’re not interested in that,” said Hurley. “We wanted to keep the club operating.”
Suddenly they were No. 1 on the list; the club’s leaders wanted it to keep operating as a yacht club.
Babylon Village Mayor Ralph Scordino also feared the property would fall to developers.
“My biggest concern was the idea of losing this amenity that we have in the village for development, for housing,” he said. “I was hoping that someone would take it over” and revitalize the facility with the idea of attracting younger families.
“And that’s what these people did and they have done a great job,” he said. “It just has that different atmosphere. You can go down there and have a cocktail, then have a great dinner and with that scenic view overlooking the Great South Bay it’s just a great place to be.”
A tentative deal between the club and Stettner and Hurley reached in the fall but it took those next months to finalize and organize a vote of the board for approval.
Then the renovations began. The main building’s ballroom and bar and lounge areas have been completely redone, along with all-new HVAC systems. The property has been cleaned up outside. the sailing program was resurrected, as well as all the kids’ programs.
The club now has a swim team, sailing team and tennis team. They even hosted a successful regatta this summer.
“We recognized early on that this was a tremendous asset to the community, as opposed to it going to development,” said Rick Stettner. “With over 30 years combined in the recreational marina business, we knew it would have been a sin to let this property go to 16 or 18 individuals.
“We wanted it to be accessible to 300, 400 people with access to the Great South Bay and all that comes with it.”
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