We have a hybrid meeting every 2nd Wednesday + have a service project and social. Check our calendar at rotarymetronyc.org for more details. The Rotary Club of Metro New York City was chartered on April 30, 2002. The charter members who created our club are an exciting and diverse group of people: from 9 countries; representing a wide range of professions: engineers, educators, bankers, lawyers, j
ournalists, and successful entrepreneurs, to name a few; representing fields and industries as diverse as foreign service, biotechnology, public administration, cryptography and international finance. Some of these charter members were involved with Rotary for a long time before starting our club. Many were formerly Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholars, Youth Exchange Students and Rotaractors. We believe that our strength is derived from this diversity, and we continuously seek new members who are interested in service, are managers or professionals, or have retired from positions at that level, who will be assets to our club. Our club appeals to the active and successful Rotarians that make up our membership largely due to the following:
Our evening meetings at 7.30pm are convenient for busy professionals. Our club is a participant in the Meeting frequency pilot program. To this effect our club meets twice on the second and fourth wednesday of the month U.N.O. Refer to the event calendar for more details. We conveniently meet for dinner at "Trattoria Dopo Teatro "near Time Square. (125W 44th street) Click for details. The interests and preferences of our diverse membership are represented in the club structure and in the choice and planning of club activities. By actively encouraging new ideas, we have created a club that appeals to young professionals as well as mid-career and retired people. Location, centrality and convenience: our members live or work in Westchester, Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Midtown Manhattan is a central location, which is quickly and easily accessible from most locations in the New York metro area by several modes of public transportation. It is also a pleasant and interesting neighborhood of historical and cultural significance, a destination for most New York visitors. We conduct our club business with a level of informality that fits our lifestyle. Our members are most comfortable with a high level of organization and efficiency in a low-stress and approachable club. We are diverse in terms of our professions, nationalities, religions, opinions, etc. This diversity helps us to create a broad pool of talent and individual interests that we can draw upon to promote project success, and maintain a vibrant and exciting club. A few of the traits that we all have in common are: an interest in serving our community on the local and/or international level, maturity, professionalism, and the ability to take some time out of our schedules to participate in meetings and other club activities.
