Park Central Hotel
Park Central Hotel | |
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Renaissance revival | |
Location | 870 7th Avenue, Midtown Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S. |
Address | 860-882 7th Avenue, 201-211 West 55th Street, 200 West 56th Street |
Coordinates | 40°45′53″N 73°58′52″W / 40.76472°N 73.98111°W |
Completed | 1926 |
Opened | June 12, 1927 |
Height | 357 feet (109 m) |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 25 |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Gronenberg & Leuchtag |
References | |
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The Park Central Hotel is a 25-story, 761-room style and opened on June 12, 1927. The Park Central is an independent hotel managed by Highgate Holdings.
Description
The Park Central Hotel is named because of its proximity to
The Mermaid Room was created as the hotel's cocktail bar and nightclub in the late 1940s. Irving Fields and his trio played there from 1950 to 1966.[4]
History
Park Central Hotel is located on the former site of the Van Corlear building, the first apartment hotel in New York City, designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh and built in 1879. The Van Corlear was demolished in 1921 to make way for the Park Central Hotel.[5]
The hotel was built by Harry A. Lanzer and opened on June 12, 1927. Lanzer sold the hotel to
It is infamous as the site of the assassination of mobster Albert Anastasia, which took place on October 25, 1957, in the hotel's barber shop.[8] Earlier, in 1928, the Jewish gangster and well-dressed prototype of the modern don, Arnold Rothstein, was shot and fatally wounded inside one of the suites.[9] The silent-film actor Roscoe Arbuckle died in 1933 from a heart attack in his sleep in his suite in the hotel.[10]
The hotel was the venue for the
References
- ^ "Park Central Hotel". Emporis. Archived from the original on March 12, 2016. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
- ^ "870 Seventh Ave, New York, NY 10019".
- ^ a b c "No More MONY in the Midtown Skyline" by David W. Dunlap, City Room (The New York Times local news blog), February 4, 2008.]
- ^ a b c d Park Central Hotel, New York City by Richard Johnson
- ^ "Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, an Architect Who Left an Indelible Imprint". The New York Times. May 7, 2000.
- ^ "New York Times Archive Stories of Statler". freepages.rootsweb.com.
- ^ "New York Sheraton Sold". The New York Times. May 24, 1983.
- ^ "Anastasia Slain in a Hotel Here; Led Murder, Inc." by Meyer Berger, The New York Times, pp. 1, 12, October 26, 1957 (Facsimile)
- ^ "Rothstein Dies; Ex-convict Sought", The New York Times, pp. 27, 28, November 7, 1928 (Facsimile)
- ^ "Fatty Arbuckle Dies in His Sleep", The New York Times, p. 17, June 30, 1933 (Facsimile)
- ^ Susan Heller Anderson; Maurice Carroll (January 5, 1984). "New York Day by Day". The New York Times.
External links
- Media related to Park Central Hotel at Wikimedia Commons
- Park Central Hotel official website
- Manhattan Club official website