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The Metropolitan also established membership classes for members of the Canadian Club and for women. Though the Canadian and Metropolitan clubs ended their partnership in 1993, many of the Canadian Club's members became full members of the Metropolitan. Canadian Club helped the Metropolitan pay off taxes and other expenses. Curran's successor, Lee Warren James, devised a plan to pay off Mutual Life. By the next year, the club had 484 life members and regular members; including limited-membership categories, the club had 2,367 total members. By 1990, the Metropolitan had 2,200 members, including 100 women. Metropolitan Club members also established their own mini-clubs within the clubhouse, including a dinner club and a "busybodies' club". That May, the Metropolitan announced that it would sell $1.8 million in bonds to pay for upgrades to the clubhouse, thus narrowly avoiding bankruptcy. To pay for further improvements to the building, the club began asking its members in 1962 to contribute between $24 and $120 a year. Another donor also offered to provide $50,000 in matching funds annually for five years to pay off the club's debt; this donor ultimately paid $100,000.

The city and national governments began charging taxes on the Metropolitan's membership dues in 1961, though the federal tax was repealed four years later. The Metropolitan Club began renovating the Great Hall in 1999, though the project was not completed for twelve years. The club's members claimed that debris from the hotel had been falling onto the clubhouse for four years. By then, the New York Daily News reported that the Metropolitan's members were on average 65 years old. An average modern billiard heater has an output of 600 watts. Workers also upgraded the existing clubhouse to bring it in line with modern building codes; for instance, the club widened the building's original staircases. There was originally a third column in front of each pair, but they were removed when 60th Street was widened in 1922. The western and eastern ends of the colonnade are supported by square piers. There was originally a lawn, hedges, and columns in front of the Fifth Avenue facade, which were demolished when Fifth Avenue was widened. In addition to the business center, there are phone systems and fax machines throughout the clubhouse.

Pockets, typically rimmed at the back with leather or plastic traditionally have drop pockets, Billiards Club Opening Costs which are small receptacles below each pocket to contain the balls. A snooker table has six pockets, one at each corner and one at the centre of each of the longest side cushions. At the time, it was one of several high-profile sites in New York City that were being considered for redevelopment. The 60th Street sidewalk and one of the entrance colonnade's columns were rebuilt in 2000 after club members discovered damage there. There are 70 lion head motifs on the roof. There is a circular driveway in the courtyard, which originally allowed vehicles to drop passengers off at the clubhouse's porte-cochère. Smoking was banned in most parts of the clubhouse; as smoking became more socially acceptable, this restriction was gradually repealed until, by 1925, smoking was allowed everywhere except for the rear wing. The ground story of the rear wing includes a niche, providing space for carriages within the courtyard to turn around. In the mid-1990s, the American Academy in Rome leased space in the eastern annex and in the rear wing.

Behind the courtyard is the rear wing or women's annex, which rises two stories above ground. The eastern courtyard is placed behind a three-bay-wide colonnade with a central carriageway flanked by two pedestrian entrances. Over the next two decades, the club earned $42,000 to $118,771 per year from these contributions. After Brandrup resigned as the club's president in 2013, Robert Strang took over. Richard H. West took over as the club's 15th president in 1960 after Reid resigned. Braden stepped down as the president in 1973 and was replaced by Peter Hilton, the latter of whom died a year later. During the late 1990s, the Metropolitan also renovated the second- and third-story rooms, re-gilded some window frames, replaced the elevators, and installed air-conditioning systems. The third-story windows are ornamented with wreaths flanked by hydria. The facade is mostly made of Vermont marble, while the ground story, trim, cornice, and balconies are made of Tuckahoe marble. As designed, the central carriageway measured 16 feet (4.9 m) wide and 25 feet (7.6 m) tall, while the pedestrian entrances measured 8 feet (2.4 m) wide and 20 feet (6.1 m) tall. The main entrance was placed on 60th Street, allowing the club to place its rooms along the entire Fifth Avenue frontage, facing Central Park.