Steve Rubell was born in New York City on Dec. 2, 1943. He was raised in a Jewish household in Brooklyn, and he went on to study finance at Syracuse University. There, he met Ian Schrager, a fellow member of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. In the mid-1970s, he teamed up with his old friend Schrager and entered the burgeoning disco market. "We just decided, ‘Hey, let’s try and do a nightclub.'” While the club only operated for a few short years in its original form, Studio 54 h

NEW YORK, NY , March 17, 2026 — Fra Jake Krassner (Sigma Zeta, Indiana University) of LEFT LANE Development presented at this month's Commercial RE and Finance Roundtable, an intimate industry forum. The event was well-received by an eclectic mix of industry professionals. The case study presented was LEFT LANE'S Hotel Bardo in Pittsburgh . This adaptive reuse project converts the existing 40-story Gulf Tower – an Art Deco architectural icon. This luxury, mixed-use urban de

Hosted by Fra Gabe Sakellaridis (Stony Brook) of Noble Wealth Advisors, " AI + Future Generations " is an interactive workshop focused on exploring the broad, complicated impact of AI. Presented by Fra Dr. Eric Abrams (Stony Brook), author of Teaching Literature with Artificial Intelligence and Clinical Lecturer at Iona University, this session will provide attendees with an overview of the capabilities and limitations of AI technologies, while exploring what AI could (or w

QUEENS, NY , March 16, 2026 — Sigma Alpha Mu Alumni Club congratulates Sammy Tri-Stater Fra Ira Goldstein for being named to the Queens Power 100 List, for the second year in a row. Clocking in at # 73, Ira is in good company among NYC's movers, shakers and deal-makers. Ira is Executive Director for the Black Car Fund. He re-founded Nu Chapter (one of 17 re-founding fathers) in 1982 at the University at Buffalo and served as the first Prior. Complete list of the Queens Power