Book talk- American Hotel: The Waldorf-Astoria and the Making of a Century

[@bossiehair]

thank you for this vid and the in depth account of the hotel's early history. this puts that area of town and broadway in context now!

[@raulayon9224]

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[@user-qm7nw7vd5s]

I visited the hotel shortly before it closed for renovations (now it is owned by a shell company of the Chinese Communist Party), and I was totally disappointed at how cheap it looked. Fake dropped ceilings with off-the-shelf sunken lights, lowered ceilings in the rooms too. Cheap wall to wall carpeting. Even the bathroom fixtures shown here in the vid are something you find in any department store. You could only see traces here and the of its glorious past. For example the nice metallic engravings on the elevator doors. Will have to see how it looks now, after these latest renovations.