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Name: Waldorf Astoria

Location: The heart of midtown Manhattan at 301 Park Ave., New York, NY 10022 (This is minutes from the famed Fifth Avenue)

Accommodations: 1,245 guest rooms, including 197 suites. The Waldorf Towers offers 101 suites and 79 deluxe rooms.

Affiliations: The National Trust's Historic Hotels of America

Facilities and Services: Four restaurants, five bars and lounges, fitness center, business center, shopping arcade, concierge services, 24-hour room service.

At its opening, the Waldorf Astoria was the largest hotel in the world.

 
 


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For people from all walks of life, staying or dining at the Waldorf-Astoria is the ultimate New York experience, a magic carpet ride fit for a king or queen. With flair and finesse, this imposing palace on Park Avenue treats every guest like royalty.

The initial restoration of the hotel's Art Deco treasures in the 1980s revealed a long-lost cache of exquisite artwork that had been covered up for decades, victims of the "modernization" craze that swept the country in the 1950s and `60s. Underneath a carpet in the Park Avenue lobby, for example, was the magnificent, 148,000-piece "Wheel of Life" mosaic by French artist Louis Rigal, whose 13 allegorical oil murals on the adjacent walls were hidden under heavy draperies. A dropped ceiling covered ornate mouldings and gold leaf decorations. Art Deco medallions, grillwork, and other adornments are found throughout the public areas.

The owners had to give up the successful hotel enterprise in 1929; they’d sold the hotel’s high-priced Manhattan real estate to make way for the Empire State Building. Profits from the deal went into building the present Waldorf-Astoria. When it opened on October 1, 1931, to President Herbert Hoover’s words of congratulations broadcast on the radio, the 2,200-room hotel was the earth’s largest, filling in the block from 49th to 50th Street and stretching 42 floors above the pavement.

With a pair of 42-story towers rising from an 18-story base, the Waldorf-Astoria commands a prominent perch on majestic Park Avenue. The entrance to the Waldorf Towers is just around the comer on East 50th Street, and there's another main portal on Lexington Avenue. Just a short walk away are midtown landmarks like Grand Central Terminal, Rockefeller Center, and St. Patrick's Cathedral, plus the smart shops of Fifth and Madison avenues.

Commonly just called the “Waldorf,” the hotel wove its way into the social history of the 30s, 40s and 50s. Its staff claims it was the first hotel to introduce room service, to abolish the separate ladies entrance and to encourage frequent guests to make their suites permanent homes; the top 12 floors, called the Waldorf Towers, are made up entirely of residential suites. Some of the Towers’ residents have been President Herbert Hoover and five-star generals Dwight Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur and Omar Bradley.

 

     
 

 

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