Moss made its debut on November 17, 2025, inside 520 Fifth Avenue, anchoring itself at one of Midtown’s most vibrant intersections. Surrounded by Bryant Park, MoMA, Grand Central, Rockefeller Center, and the historic New York Public Library, the club feels instantly intertwined with the city’s cultural and commercial heartbeat. From the outset, Moss exists not apart from New York but in harmony with its rhythm.
Conceived by sisters Colleen and Hailey Brooks, Moss stands as their contemporary tribute to the city and the diverse community that defines it. Their vision was to create a home away from home one shaped by warmth, discernment, and a distinctly New York sophistication. In their hands, hospitality becomes heartfelt, wellness becomes essential, and culture becomes an everyday presence. Spread across four sweeping floors, Moss brings dining, social life, artistic expression, and athletic excellence into a single, fluid environment that mirrors the pace and spirit of modern New York living.
The club is guided by two central ideas: Intelligent Leisure and Physical Culture. Intelligent Leisure speaks to those who want their downtime to inspire. Here, art exhibitions, live performances, interdisciplinary salons, and thoughtful supper gatherings are designed to spark curiosity and connection. Physical Culture acknowledges that wellness today is not an accessory but a lifestyle. Moss treats movement, recovery, and rest with equal respect, anchored by lower-level spaces that form a complete ecosystem for training, healing, and rejuvenation.
Interior design by Charles & Co, led by Vicky Charles, brings an elevated residential warmth to the heart of Midtown. Hand printed wallpapers, tactile Venetian plaster, and a soaring marble corner bar create a setting that feels both polished and deeply comfortable. Architecture by Kohn Pedersen Fox enhances the experience through sweeping arched windows that frame Fifth Avenue with painterly precision, flooding the club with natural light. A Steinway baby grand piano adds a quiet musical undercurrent, enriching the ambience with a sense of lived-in artistry.
The art program, developed with WOAH and Platform, blends emerging New York talents with select established voices. The curation is deliberately intimate chosen not to dominate the space but to deepen it. At the club’s summit, The Symposium hosts Rotating Walls, a quarterly installation series that keeps the visual landscape continually evolving. Its inaugural curation by Paul Henkel of Palo Gallery brings a personal dimension to the program.
Dining at Moss reflects the same balance of refinement and ease. Under the leadership of Executive Chef Angela Zeng, joined by Chef de Cuisine Brian Mullooly, Wine Director Kristin Courville, and Pastry Chef Taylor Kim, the culinary offering flows from breakfast into late night. Babette, the main restaurant, moves between New American flavors, French technique, and East Asian influences, always rooted in seasonal ingredients. Above it, Bar Babette overlooks Fifth Avenue, offering a polished setting for raw-bar classics, tartares, oysters, and elevated comfort dishes suited for both solitary lunches and lingering evenings. Lil’s introduces a piano-lounge sensibility, where classic cocktails, small plates, and live performances blend into a mood of intimate sophistication, complemented by a quietly elegant sitting room.
At the top of the club, the energy shifts toward culture and conversation. The Symposium hosts salons, fireside discussions, performances, and exhibition openings, serving as the intellectual heart of Moss. Inklings, the library bar, offers a multi course tasting experience accompanied by imaginative cocktails served in Sophie Lou Jacobsen glassware. For sound lovers, Off The Record presents a vinyl listening lounge built around a McIntosh MT-10 and custom Meridian speakers, capable of transforming into a private karaoke space when the night takes a more playful turn.
Moss maintains a sense of play throughout its social spaces. The Games Room invites relaxed competition with vintage billiards, poker, Mahjong, chess, and backgammon. The Broadcast, a fully equipped podcast studio with acoustic isolation and built-in cameras, doubles as a DJ booth for select occasions. Four private rooms—the Round Table, Print Room, Portrait Room, and Reading Room offer spaces for focused work, intimate gatherings, or meaningful celebrations.
Below the surface, two subterranean floors form BEDROCK Aquatics & Athletics, the wellness core of Moss. Bedrock Aquatics reimagines global bathing traditions as a serene, contemporary sanctuary featuring a hammam-inspired heated chamber, sauna, steam room, rain showers, private suites, and thermal pools ranging from cold to vitality. Holistic consultations, aesthetic services, IV therapies, massage rooms, and dedicated recovery zones elevate the experience beyond typical club amenities into a destination for longevity-focused care.
Bedrock Athletics introduces a high-performance training environment outfitted with advanced equipment and NYU-certified trainers. Members have access to personal training, Reformer Pilates, Collective Training sessions, and strength programs, all supported by sports-science collaborations with NYU Langone’s Sports Performance Center. The space keeps competition alive with two golf simulators and a convertible pickleball court that transforms into a half-court basketball setup. Trainers outfitted in Nike underscore the club’s cohesive and intentional aesthetic.
Moss arrives at a moment when private clubs are evolving into full lifestyle ecosystems. Today’s New Yorker demands spaces that mirror the multilevel pace of city life fast, curious, wellness driven, and culturally attuned. Moss responds with a setting where training, dining, conversation, art, and restoration exist in quiet harmony. The result is not merely a club, but a daily anchor—an elegant, modern sanctuary for life in New York.