Originally located in Kips Bay neighborhood in Manhattan, the Lucile Palmaro Clubhouse relocated to the Bronx in 1969. It is the largest of the Club’s 10 sites and provides a range of youth enrichment services including art, athletic, and academic programs. The Clubhouse also houses the Bronx’s sole outdoor ice-skating rink. To enhance the Club for decades to come, ESKW/A is working closely with the program directors to redesign the heart of the facility, the Games Room. To enliven the centrally located Games Room, the original, single-glazed skylights, concealed in the 1970s to conserve energy, will be removed and replaced with a large, single-slope, insulated panel skylight. The room will be re-shaped and centered around the original brick fireplace, and the perimeter will have deep, colorful nooks for seating booths.

Additional studies will examine the needs of the club at a Master-Planning level.