Description

This historic building was built in 1904 and served as the largest luxury residential hotel of the time. It had Turkish baths, large elevators, multiple gilded restaurants, the largest indoor pool in the world, and many other impressive amenities. It was a very popular place for the artists and entertainers of the day to reside; the list of tenants included such famous icons as musicians Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff, baseball legend Babe Ruth, and actors Florenz Ziegfeld and Sarah Bernhardt. Today, the building is a New York City landmark, is on the National Register of Historic Places, and has a history as the site of one of the most intricate landlord-tenant battles in New York.