The Elgin’s four main principals, Peter Pernicone, Darwin Conner, Paul Baum, and Christine Trauben, have known each other for 30 years. Peter, Christine, and Paul were born in New York and when Darwin moved to the city Peter, Paul, and Darwin became fast friends. They were highly competitive when it came to grades and sports at PS 11 (their Chelsea grade school) and have been close friends ever since. Paul and Darwin would spend so much of their time at Peter and Christine’s house that Christine (Peter’s older sister) quickly adopted Paul and Darwin as little brothers. The opening of the The Elgin is the culmination of that dream and they couldn’t be prouder.