Cocktails, Hotel New Yorker 1950s Sizes:12x12 inch Archival Print (Unframed) just 19 years old

just 19 years old

except in the South

The interior frescoes were the work of Giovanni Battista Smeraldi

it had a two-story atrium

Cocktails, Hotel New Yorker 1950s Sizes:12x12 inch Archival Print (Unframed) just 19 years oldThe 1940s and 1950s saw the Art Deco styled New Yorker at the peak of its popularity and it was widely regarded as one of New York's most fashionable hotels. Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey played there and the New York Observer noted that in the building's heyday, "actors, celebrities, athletes, politicians, mobsters, the shady and the luminousthe entire Brooklyn Dodgers roster during the glory seasonswould stalk the bars and ballrooms, or romp