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1. Built as a replacement for the original hotel which was razed in 1929 to make room for the Empire State Building. A fine hotel with 1,245 guest rooms opened 1931. What was the name of this hotel that was NYC's first skyscraper hotel ?
4. Amos F. Eno built the Fifth Avenue Hotel, a 600 room grand hotel at 200 Fifth Avenue which opened in 1859, on the NW corner of 23rd Street. The Fifth Avenue Hotel replaced Franconis Hippodrome which was torn down in 1856. Guests who used to stay at the Fifth Avenue Hotel included President Grant, Boss Tweed, Prince of Wales and Commodore Vanderbilt. The Fifth Avenue Hotel was the first in America to have an elevator. Because 23rd street was so far uptown in 1859, people called the Hotel Eno's WHAT ?
10. A 1904 Beaux-Arts NYC hotel was called a wedding cake shaped 17 story tenement. This 300 suite hotel had near soundproof walls (which Arturo Toscanini and Enrico Caruso enjoyed) and pneumatic tubes that allowed guests to send messages to other guests in other rooms. On the hotel roof was a garden with goats, chickens and a pet bear. This hotel had the world's largest indoor swimming pool, and live seals were even in the lobby fountain. What was the name of this hotel on 2109 Broadway, that was the first NYC building to have air-conditioning ?
11. The oldest hotel in NYC that is still functioning as a hotel is at the SW corner of Bowery at 341 Broome Street. It was surrounded by homeless shelters for most of its long life. The hotel has been named New Bull's Head (in 1805), the Upper Bull's Head, the Westchester, the Commercial, the Bowery House (1825), the Military and Civick Hotel (1835) and the Occidental. What is the 1920 to current day name of this oldest hotel in NYC ?
14. In 1971, John Lennon did do the 1st demo for Happy Xmas War is over in a NY hotel. This 1904 hotel at Two East 55th Street, at Fifth Avenue, has 182 guest rooms and 74 suites all with marble baths. This old hotel is known for their famous King Cole Bar and Lounge which was the first bar in America to serve the Red Snapper (or as it is called today the Bloody Mary). What is the name of this Beaux Arts landmark hotel once owned by John Jacob Astor ?
16. Sherrys Hotel (1898) was at 522 5th Avenue. Waldorf Hotel (1893) was at 33rd and 5th Avenue. Holland House (1891) was at 30th & 5th Avenue. The Windsor Hotel on upper 5th Avenue was destroyed by a fire on March 17th 1899. What 1929 music-centric hotel where John Sloan, Marc Chagall, Ignacy Paderewski, Van Cliburn, Regina Resnick and Georgia O'Keeffe stayed is across from Carnegie Hall at 101 West 57th Street ? Saks 5th Avenue was built on the site of an old 1876 hotel with the same name that closed in Jine 1922.
18. Cary Grant called one NYC hotel (that was once William Randolph Hearst former guesthouse) home for a dozen years. Besides the Fab 4 (Beatles) who also stayed at this hotel during their first US visit (less autograph seekers could fit in small lobby), Elvis liked the huge suites with wrap around balconies. What was the name of this hotel at 65 W 54th Street ?
19. The Stadt Huys off Pearl by Coenties Alley was the location of the first hotel in NYC. This five story building was the tallest in town, but not considered grand by hotel standards. The first grand hotel in NYC was opened May 1st, 1802 at 123 Broadway on the west side between Thames and Cedar (one block north of Trinity Church). This hotel was the first building in NYC to be roofed with slate, it was built just south of the old 1662 windmill. This hotel was bought by John Jacob Astor in 1828, for $101,000, and torn down in 1847. What was the name of this first grand hotel in NYC ?
20. When the Metropolitan Opera was built at 39th Street in 1883, many hotels were built in the area up to Times Square. Hotel Martinique was created by Henry J. Hardenbergh who also built the Plaza, the original Waldorf and Astoria Hotels, Carnegie Hall and the Dakota. The original Martinique was only a 10-stories, until Macy's the Path train and Penn Station expanded the value of Herald Square hotels. This 16 story building is still at 53 West 32nd at the NE corner of Broadway. Before the Radisson turned the landmarked building back into a nice hotel, the old Hotel Martinique became WHAT kind of housing ?
21. Hector Boiardi, phoneticly changed his name for easier spelling and the selling of his thick tomato sauce (first in milk bottles). His restaurant Il Giardino d’Italia in Cleveland (1929), merged with American Home Foods. Who was this 17 year old cook at the Plaza hotel in 1914, that became a house hold name ?
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2. The NYC Hotel where the Beatles first met and smoked with Bob Dylan and Al Aronowitz in August 28, 1964 was on Manhattan's Park Avenue. This old 1928 hotel, is now Trump Park Avenue at 502 Park Avenue on the northwest corner at 59th Street. What was the name of the NYC hotel where the Beatles stayed during their second trip to the Big Apple ?
3. Matilda the cat has full roam of the oldest NYC hotel (that is not a Bowery flophouse) since the 1930's. This hotel has been running at 59 West 44th Street since 1902. Sherry's and Delmonico's restaurants were in the area when the hotel opened. Guests included Douglas Fairbanks Sr., John Barrymore, Helen Hayes, and most likely members of the Round Table who met there for lunch. What is the name of this oldest operating grand hotel in NYC ?
4. Bill & Hillary Clinton named their kid after a song about the famous Chelsea Hotel. Chelsea Hotel is at 222 W. 23rd Street (since 1883) is recently known for killer Sid Vicious (Room 100). The Chelsea Hotel has been home to Dylan Thomas, Bob Dylan, Thomas Wolfe, Jane Fonda, Janis Joplin, Eugene O'Neill, William S. Burroughs, Arthur Miller, O. Henry, Arthur C. Clarke, Gore Vidal, Quentin Crisp, Allen Ginsberg, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jack Kerouac, Patti Smith, John Cale, Jimi Hendrix, Janice Joplin, Greatful Dead, Leonard Cohen, Tennessee Williams, Stanley Kubrick, Miloš Forman, Dennis Hopper and Mark Twain. The Chelsea was called the most famous WHAT in the world ?
5. The following hotels were all set fire in November, 1864: The Astor House (Broadway and Vesey); St. Nicholas (Broadway and Spring); Fifth-Avenue (between 23rd and 24th); Lafarge (Broadway and 3rd); St. James (Broadway between 25th and 26th); Metropolitan (Broadway at Prince); Howard (Broadway and Maiden); United States (Fulton and Pearl); Love-Joy's (Park Row and Beekman); Tammany (Nassau and Frankfort); Belmont (Fulton); Hanford (foot of Grand street); and the New-England (Bowery and Bayard). If they were all set at once it could have successfully destroyed NYC. What were these conspirators who plotted to burn down NYC ?
6. The SE corner of 5th Avenue and 9th street was home to a famous writer until 1954 when the townhouse and the famous Brevoort hotel made room for the 19 floor Brevoort apartment building. Whose townhouse was next to the Brevoort Hotel on 5th Avenue ?
7. Two NYC hotels the Lafayette Hotel and Brevoort Hotel offered $25,000 to any pilot who could cross the Atlantic (NYC-Paris or Paris-NYC) in a land or water aircraft. That $25,000 offer was made for 5 years in 1919 by owner Raymond Orteig (no one tried), he repeated the offer in 1926, and a man named Charles became the winner. What was Charles last name ?
8. Neil Cassady, Lenny Bruce, Lillian Gish, Julie Andrews, John Barrymore and Poet Delmore Schwartz all stayed at a transient hotel. What was this seedy NYC hotel at 5 West 8th street where Jack Kerouac wrote Tristessa ?
9. Broadway Central Hotel, was at 667 - 677 Broadway, opposite Bond street. Before being owned by Tilly Haynes this hotel was first called the Grand Central Hotel when it opened August 1870. The Metropolitan Hotel was on Broadway at Prince street. The Prescott House owned by Captain Albert DeGroot (Captain of a Hudson River Steamboat called Reindeer) was on Broadway at Spring street, it opened in 1853. The Prescott House became the Hotel Diez (owned by Frederick Diez) around 1863. The Collamore House and the St. Nicholas Hotel (1853-1884) were also both opened in 1853 at other corners of Broadway and Spring. The Hotel St. Denis was at Broadway and 11th Street, opposite Grace Church. Between 1850 and 1854, almost 20 hotels opened on Broadway due to the tourism for the 1853 World's Fair known as the WHAT ?.
12. The Astor Hotel at NW corner of Broadway and West 44th Street, was a 11 story Beaux-Arts hotel that was built in 1904 and was demolished in 1967. An earlier Astor hotel was a 5 story building built on the site of John Jacob Astor's home at 223 Broadway which was built by Rufus King. Astor bought the house and land next door owned by John G Coster, and relocated Mr Coster to 517 Broadway (which became known as the Chinese house after the famous Chinese Museum moved in). What was the name of this first Astor hotel (which was the first hotel in New York to offer bath and toilet facilities) that was opened in 1836 on the NW corner of Broadway and Vesey street ?
13. In 1897 John Jacob Astor IV built the Astoria Hotel. Hotel St. Regis was another hotel owned by Colonel John Jacob Astor IV, built in 1905, followed by the Knickerbocker hotel built in 1906. He even wrote a science fiction novel about the year 2000. What famous distaster did John Jacob Astor IV die in, on April 15, 1912 ?
15. The 1927 29 story Savoy-Plaza Hotel stood at 767 Fifth Avenue (between 58th & 59th on the east side of 5th Avenue). In 1968 the Savoy-Plaza Hotel was replaced by the General Motors Building. Louis Sherry built the elaborate Sherry-Netherland Hotel on the east side of 5th Avenue by 59th street. What did Louis Sherry sell that funded his fortune ?
17. One famous NYC landmark was the location of the Beatles press conference on February 10, 1964. Zero Mostel, Truman Capote, Lillian Russell and Katharine Graham liked this uptown hotel. What was this hotel named ?
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