The old Elks Lodge, with its famed terracotta facade ... Built in 1907 and originally housing the Queens chapter of the Elks fraternal order, it later became a union hall for the Sheet Metal ...

But the Depression swept the country in 1929, and by 1934 the Elks lost the building to foreclosure. In the 1960s, the lodge moved from Manhattan to Whitestone, Queens, and the move to Lynbrook ...

The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith today lauded a decision by the New York Elks Lodge No. 1 to take steps toward wiping out the Elks’ Grand Lodge policy of restricting membership to ...