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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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Since opening in 1931 as the world's first skyscraper hotel, the Waldorf-Astoria New York has played host to movie stars, royalty, business tycoons, and every U.S. president since Herbert Hoover, a permanent resident of the hotel's exclusive Waldorf Towers. In the words of one guidebook author, "There's a certain electric thrill about being here, even among the well-heeled guests."

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

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.”

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.

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.

 

     
 

 

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