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Waldorf Astoria FAST FACTS

Name: Waldorf Astoria

The Empire Room, which was once the premier entertainment club in New York, helped launch the careers of Diana Ross and Frank Sinatra.

Ginger Rogers appeared in the first major film to feature a hotel, Weekend at the Waldorf.

The Waldorf Astoria was the first hotel to abolish the "Ladies Entrance."

The Waldorf Astoria was the first hotel to start the practice of having assistant managers in the lobby to greet and assist guests with their needs.

 

 
 


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The lobby's comfortable seating ensembles, accented with marble, dark wood, potted palms, and dim lamps, convey overtones of formal living rooms from a bygone era. The dress code stipulates that "T-shirts, tank tops, faded jeans, cut-offs, and casual hats are not permitted" in the lobbies and lounges.

Dominating the Waldorf Astoria New York main lobby's front desk area is an ornately carved bronze clock from the 1893 Chicago's World Fair, a symbol of the Waldorf and a well-known meeting place. Set on an octagonal marble-and-mahogany base and topped with a shiny bronze Statue of Liberty, the two-ton, nine-foot-tall clock was made by Goldsmith of London. Carved faces on the sides include Queen Victoria, Benjamin Franklin, and Presidents George Washington, Andrew Jackson, and Ulysses S. Grant.

Synonymous with wealth, glamor, power and opulence, the name “Waldorf” has figured into tales of Manhattan for generations. In movies it has meant everything from a broken heart to a fortune made. For Americans of all stripes, it meant spending New Year’s Eve in front of the television watching Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians playing “Auld Lang Syne” from the hotel’s Starlight Roof.

One of the country’s more expensive overnights, the hotel properly called the Waldorf-Astoria is still a worthwhile Superior Stay for humble history lovers. Its story goes back to 1893 when the wealthy William Waldorf Astor opened his Waldorf Hotel on Fifth Avenue, attracting a monied clientele. William’s cousin, John Jacob Astor IV, opened a similar hotel right next door in 1897, drawing his well-to-do friends and associates. The two Astors linked their buildings with a corridor and the complex became known as the “Waldorf-Astoria.”

Be a part of Waldorf Astoria New York history... Stay here on your next stay to New York. You'll be glad you did.

 

 

     
 

 

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