Cloud Club closed in the evening. Many famous executives based in the tower had lunch in the club. The club was only for men for several decades. In the 1950s and 1960s newer clubs opened, causing the attendance at the Cloud Club to decrease. In 1971 180 corporations supplied 300 members of the club. The club declined more as competition from other clubs increased and as companies moved offices to suburban areas. Texaco moved its employees to Westchester, New York in 1977, and the club closed in 1979. Tishman Speyer, which took over the Chrysler Building in 1998 and refurbished it, leased
66th Street (Manhattan) the opera "Manon Lescaut" by Giacomo Puccini, had been opposed by a member of Manhattan Community Board 7, who felt that the piece should have been placed in the Metropolitan Opera Hall of Fame, and not on public property. Notable current and former residents of 66th Street include: The 66th Street–Lincoln Center station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line is located at the intersection of 66th Street and Broadway. It is served by the trains. The M66 provides crosstown bus service between West 66th Street and West End Avenue on the Upper West Side and East 67th Street and York