Built between 1899 and 1904, it was the first air conditioned hotel in New York. Its tenants have included
Arturo Toscanini, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Gustave Mahler, Mischa Elman, Yehudi Menuhin,
Enrico Caruso, Feodor Chaliapin, Ezio Pinza, Lily Pons, Teresa Stratas, Florenz Ziegfeld and Billie Burke,
Theodore Dreiser, Elmer Rice, Moss Hart, Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Sarah Bernhardt, Tony Curtis, and
Angelina Jolie. (The doors and hallways are all extra wide so pianos can be easily moved in and out.)
Broadway, Upper West Side
New York City, USA