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9781593930349

Life at the Top: Inside New York's Grand Hotels

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  • ISBN13:

    9781593930349

  • ISBN10:

    1593930348

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-08-31
  • Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements i
Preface 1(10)
A personal note and an overview of New York City hotels.
Rooms at the Inns
11(6)
Early hotels---dating back to the 1700's through the Astor House, built in 1859, equipped with the city's first passenger elevator.
The Chelsea
17(6)
The Chelsea, built in 1882 as an apartment house, ushers the way for the original Waldorf and its Astoria addition.
The Algonquin
23(10)
Home of the Round Table and Dorothy Parker, Alexander Woollcott and Ward Morehouse, the author's father.
The St. Regis: Mr. Astor's little inn
33(12)
Naughty Bawdy Times Square Hotels
45(22)
The Astor, Rector and notorious Metropol.
The Ansonia
67(4)
The Plaza Hotel
71(15)
PHOTO INSERT
86(113)
The Roaring Twenties
115(10)
The Warwick, The Mayflower, The Roosevelt, Ritz Tower.
The Pierre
125(10)
The Carlyle
135(12)
Princess Diana's favorite.
Jack Kennedy and Other Politicians
147(6)
...at The Carlyle, Waldorf-Astoria.
The Greatest of Them All
153(8)
...The new Waldorf-Astoria.
Surviving the 1930's
161(4)
The Music Makers
165(10)
Big Bands, great artists and writers at home.
Hotel People on Parade
175(6)
The Century's Third Hotel Boom
181(8)
Summing Up
189(4)
Top 10 Grand Hotels
193(6)
...and Others Worth Mentioning
Index 199

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