That measure was also unsuccessful, but Zuckerberg said he and other opponents of the addition still resent the way club leaders handled the expansion.
“I feel the board of the club treated its members shabbily and with disdain,” Zuckerberg said. “I oppose the manner in which the decision was imposed without input.”
But Handlin said moving forward on the project was necessary.
“There are always people who are bound to disagree. You have to go ahead, though,” he said.
The expansion of the 11,000-member club was partly funded by the $12.5-million sale of a painting by John Singer Sargent that had hung in the club’s lobby.
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