In 1920, The McAlpin Hotel hosted what may have been the first broadcast from a New York hotel. The Army Signal Corps arranged the broadcast by singer Luisa Tetrazzini from her room in the hotel. Tetrazzini (1871-1940) was an Italian lyric coloratura soprano who had an enormous popularity in America from the 1900s-1920s. In 1922, the McAlpin became one of the first otèl to link ship-to-shore radios with their phone system. The hotel would later be the first to give the call letters of radio station WMCA in 1925.
In 1947, Jackie Robinson, a resident living on the 11th floor, received the phone call from the Brooklyn Dodgers that would change America forever by becoming the first African American player on a Major League Baseball team.
The hotel’s Marine Grill was considered one of the more unusual interiors in the city of New York due to “an expansive grotto of exquisite polychrome terra cotta designed by artist Frederick Dana Marsh.” In the 1970s, the building owner had closed the restaurant and historic preservationists were concerned with the future of the artwork. Their worst fears were realized when Susan Tunick, president of the non-profit Friends of Terra Cotta, saw dumpsters outside the hotel filled with fragments from the murals. Rescue efforts were eventually successful when the murals were reassembled under the oversight of the MTA Arts for Transit Program and they were reassembled piece by piece like a giant jigsaw puzzle over one summer by a group of college interns. In 2000, the restored murals were installed at the Fulton Street Station, along with the ornate iron gate that had adorned the entrance to the Marine Grill.
In the late 1970s, the building was converted to 700 rental apartments and in 2001 to condominiums. It now operates under the name Herald Towers.
Stanley Turkel te deziyen kòm 2020 Istoryen pou Ane a pa ZANTRAY istorik nan Amerik, pwogram ofisyèl la nan Trust Nasyonal la pou prezèvasyon istorik, pou ki li te deja rele nan 2015 ak 2014. Turkel se konsiltan nan otèl ki pi lajman-pibliye nan Etazini yo. Li opere pratik otèl konsiltasyon li sèvi kòm yon temwen ekspè nan ka ki gen rapò ak otèl, bay jesyon byen ak otèl konsiltasyon franchiz. Li sètifye kòm yon Mèt Hotel Founisè Emeritus pa Enstiti Edikasyon nan otèl Ameriken an ak Asosyasyon lojman. [imèl pwoteje] 917-628-8549
Nouvo liv li "Great Ameriken Hotel Achitèk Volim 2" te jis te pibliye.
Lòt Liv Hotel pibliye:
- Gran Otelye Ameriken yo: Pyonye nan endistri otèl la (2009)
- Bati pou dire: 100+ ZANTRAY ane nan New York (2011)
- Bati pou dire: 100+ ane-ZANTRAY East nan Mississippi a (2013)
- Hotel Mavens: Lucius M. Boomer, George C. Boldt, Oscar nan Waldorf la (2014)
- Gran Ameriken Otelye Volim 2: Pyonye nan endistri otèl la (2016)
- Bati pou dire: 100+ ZANTRAY Lwès nan Mississippi a (2017)
- Hotel Mavens Volim 2: Henry Morrison Flagler, Henry Bradley Plant, Carl Graham Fisher (2018)
- Gran Ameriken Hotel Achitèk Volim I (2019)
- Hotel Mavens: Volim 3: Bob ak Larry Tisch, Ralph Hitz, Cesar Ritz, Curt Strand
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