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New York Hotel This article describes New York hotels. Hotels are an important part of New York, USA's tourism industry. Let us take a look at some of the worth visiting hotels in New York. Plaza Hotel: » It is a 19 story hotel » It lies on the corner of the Fifth Avenue and central Park South and Manhattan » It is currently going through a renovation » It’s main entrance faces toward the South portion of Grand Army Plaza memorializing the army of the Union in the Civil War » The Grand Plaza is dissected into two sections by Central Park South » The Grand Army Plaza is dissected into two sections: the Pulitzer Fountain and Central Park » The Pulitzer Fountain has a variety of Karl Bitter, amassed by the desire of the newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer. There is a statue in the fountain that is basically Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruits and nuts » The Central Park has the resplendent Augustus Saint-Gaudens part- begilded bronze equestrian sculpture of General Sherman » The French Renaissance château of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, designed by George Browne Post once stood at the south of the Plaza. This lies in between the 57th and 58th Streets » Behind the Plaza lies the grandest of the Fifth Avenue Mansions of the Gilded Age » The Plaza hotel has been designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh » It is a French Renaissance château-style building » It became public property in October 1907 » In 1969 the Plaza hotel was given a landmark status called the National Historic Landmark by New York’s City landmark Commission » In 1988 Donald Trump bought the Plaza for $407½ million » The Plaza hotel was again sold for $325 million in 1995 to the Millennium Copthorne Hotels and Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and » In 2004 it was again sold for $675 million to Manhattan developer called Elad Properties » On April 30, 2005 the Plaza hotel was closed for renovation » It is scheduled to open in 2007 » After the renovations, the Plaza hotel will have 282 hotel rooms which is inclusive of 152 condo hotel units » These units are managed by Fairmont Hotels and Resorts » The Plaza hotel has appeared in many films such as 1959 movie North by Northwest, 1967 movie Barefoot in the Park, 1968 movie Funny Girl, 1971 movie Plaza Suite, 1973 movie The Way We Were, 1979 movie Love at First Bite, 1984 movie Cotton Club. The hotel also appeared in the first two Crocodile Dundee movies, 1990 movie King of New York, and 1992 movie Home Alone 2: Lost In New-York The Algnquin Hotel » This hotel was opened in 1902 » It is located in between the Fifth and Sixth Avenues on the West44th Street in Manhattan » The hotel witnessed a hosting of literary and theatrical notables started by its own manager, Frank Case » Some important meetings began to take place in the hotel such as Algonquin Round Table for exchanging bon mots over lunch » The hotel was awarded a National Literary Landmark by Friends of Libraries USA. » The hotel also has undergone many renovations such as in 1998, 2004 and the first renovation when the hotel changed the hands » Due to the renovations, each of its present 174 rooms furnishes antique masterpieces, coupled with cable television, and a wi-fi Internet access » The hotel was sold for $74 in 2005 » This hotel also appeared in many films such as the 1959 movie North by Northwest. Along with the movies such as Barefoot in the Park in 1967, Funny Girl in 1968, Plaza Suite in 1971, The Way We Were in 1973, Love at First Bite in 1979, Cotton Club in 1982 and so on Four Seasons Hotel » This chain of hotel consists of many hotels and resorts for the top of the hotel market » According to the to Travel and Leisure magazine and Zagat Guide this hotel is considered the best in the world » This hotel is a publicly traded corporation » Its headquarters lie in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Isadore Sharp » Bill Gates is its one of the largest shareholders » The hotel has a residential program called the Residence Club that allows people to buy time shares of villas as part of Four Seasons resort Waldorf=Astoria Hotel » This New York Hotel is a luxury name of the two hotels in New York. One that stood on the site of the Empire State Building o Fifth Avenue and second a modern American 42 story hotel called the Art Decolandmark. It is located at 301 Park Avenue in Manhattan since 1931 » The New York Hotel is owned by Hilton Hotel Corporations » The hotel encompasses several European restaurants, and a beauty parlor, Kenneth's Salon, luxurious boutiques » There lies a hotel within the hotel called the Waldorf Towers. It lies in its upper section » This hotel is a contribution by the Astor Family Feud » Originally the hotel started as two hotels: one owned by William Waldorf Astor opened in 1893 and the other owned by his cousin John Jacob Astor IV that was called the Astoria hotel and became public four years later and had four additional stories » A large suite on the 42nd floor is being kept by the US government as ambassadorial residence for the UN ambassadors » The hotel has platforms that were increasingly used by Douglas MacArthur, Grand Central Terminal, Adlai Stevenson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt Other hotels in New York are as follows: • Sheraton New York • New York Hotel • Westin Times Square • St Regis Hotel • New York Crown Plaza •
Bryant Park Hotel • Trump International Hotel & Tower • W • Le Parker Meridien • Hotel Pennsylvania • Hyatt • New York Hilton Hotel Some of the discontinued hotels are: • Grand Central Hotel • New York Biltmore Hotel sSome of the Condominiums are: • Trump International Hotel and Tower • Hotel Chelsea • Trump World Tower • Trump Tower Related
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