The Plaza. Fifth Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street, New York
Author : Plaza Hotel (New York, N.Y.)
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 33,4 MB
Release : 1910*
Category : Hotels
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Author : Plaza Hotel (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 33,4 MB
Release : 1910*
Category : Hotels
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Author : Plaza Hotel (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher :
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 43,57 MB
Release : 19??
Category : Hotels
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Author : Julie Satow
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,84 MB
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781455566655
Journalist Julie Satow's thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from the Gilded Age to the Go-Go Eighties to today's Billionaire Row. From the moment in 1907 when New York millionaire Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt strode through the Plaza Hotel's revolving doors to become its first guest, to the afternoon in 2007 when a mysterious Russian oligarch paid a record price for the hotel's largest penthouse, the eighteen-story white marble edifice at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 59th Street has radiated wealth and luxury. For some, the hotel evokes images of F. Scott Fitzgerald frolicking in the Pulitzer Fountain, or Eloise, the impish young guest who pours water down the mail chute. But the true stories captured in THE PLAZA also include dark, hidden secrets: the cold-blooded murder perpetrated by the construction workers in charge of building the hotel, how Donald J. Trump came to be the only owner to ever bankrupt the Plaza, and the tale of the disgraced Indian tycoon who ran the hotel from a maximum-security prison cell, 7,000 miles away in Delhi. In this definitive history, award-winning journalist Julie Satow not only pulls back the curtain on Truman Capote's Black and White Ball and The Beatles' first stateside visit-she also follows the money trail. THE PLAZA reveals how a handful of rich, dowager widows were the financial lifeline that saved the hotel during the Great Depression, and how, today, foreign money and anonymous shell companies have transformed iconic guest rooms into condominiums that shield ill-gotten gains-hollowing out parts of the hotel as well as the city around it. THE PLAZA is the account of one vaunted New York City address that has become synonymous with wealth and scandal, opportunity and tragedy. With glamour on the surface and strife behind the scenes, it is the story of how one hotel became a mirror reflecting New York's place at the center of the country's cultural narrative for over a century.
Author : Jerry E. Patterson
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 19,22 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
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In this captivating history of America's most glamorous main street, Jerry Patterson covers two centuries of notable buildings, powerful figures, and colorful events. 75 illustrations.
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 38,30 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Hotels
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Author : Curtis Gathje
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1466867000
At The Plaza is a pictorial record and an anecdotal history of the world's most famous hotel: New York's Plaza. As a story, it traverses the breadth and scope of Gotham's high society during the American Century. As a photo collection, it's like no other, capturing the hotel's remarkable presence on the ever-changing New York scene. For almost one hundred years, The Plaza has mirrored the social history of Manhattan: its tastes in design, entertainment, restaurants and accommodations, as well as its adjustment to Prohibition, the Great Depression, two World Wars, the Cold War, women's rights, smokers' rights, animals' rights and British rock-and-roll. The first guests to sign the register-Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt-set the standard for the long procession of luminaries that followed: Mark Twain, Diamond Jim Brady, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Marlene Dietrich, Frank Lloyd Wright, Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the Beatles, among many others. In At The Plaza, the hotel's official historian, Curtis Gathje, has compiled a tremendous collection of photographs and vignettes chronicling the colorful history of a building, an institution, and a city.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Apartment houses
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Author : Christopher Gray
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
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Panoramic views show landmarks like the New York Public Library, the Plaza Hotel, and St. Patrick's Cathedral. Notes.
Author : New York (N.Y.). Fifth Avenue Commission
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 24,37 MB
Release : 1911
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Author : Jerold S. Kayden
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,98 MB
Release : 2000-11-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780471362579
In New York - wie auch in vielen anderen Großstädten - wächst die Zahl der öffentlichen Plätze, die Privatpersonen gehören und auch privat betrieben werden. Als Gegenleistung für die Schaffung dieser Plätze und Einrichtungen, erhalten die Erbauer von der Stadt Sonderkonzessionen (in der Regel für die Gebäudehöhe). Dieses Buch dokumentiert und beschreibt anhand von Fotos, Lageplänen und Karten über 300 öffentliche Plätze in New York, die in privater Hand sind. Zu den bekanntesten zählen u.a. das Trump Tower Atrium, die Sony Arkade und die Citicorp Mall. Jede Beschreibung enthält Informationen zu Größe, Fertigstellungsdatum, Architekten/Landschaftsarchitekten, Gebäudeeigentümer, Öffnungszeiten und Lage. Zu den Abbildungen gehört jeweils ein Foto sowie eine maßstabsgetreue Zeichnung, die verdeutlichen, wie sich der Bau in die angrenzende Gebäude-/Straßenlandschaft einpaßt. (y05/00)