Metropole

Active as Casablanca Hotel

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Hotel Metropole, 147 West 43rd Street

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40.756418794178, -73.985612264806

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Gatsby took an arm of each of us and moved forward into the restaurant, whereupon Mr. Wolfshiem swallowed a new sentence he was starting and lapsed into a somnambulatory abstraction.
“Highballs?” asked the head waiter.
“This is a nice restaurant here,” said Mr. Wolfshiem, looking at the presbyterian nymphs on the ceiling. “But I like across the street better!”
“Yes, highballs ” agreed Gatsby, and then to Mr. Wolfshiem: “It’s too hot over there.”
“Hot and small—yes,” said Mr. Wolfshiem, “but full of memories.”
“What place is that?” I asked.
“The old Metropole.”
“The old Metropole,” brooded Mr. Wolfshiem gloomily. “Filled with faces dead and gone. Filled with friends gone now forever.”

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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

A pioneering hotel in the city for being the first to offer running water in every room. In the years leading up to the 1920s, it was reputed to attract gamblers and underworld figures. In the early hours of 16 July 1912, the hotel was marked by the murder of Herman Rosenthal, owner of several gambling dens—a case linked to detective Charles Becker, executed in 1915—and which inspired a text by James Thurber titled “Two O’Clock at the Metropole.” In time, the Metropole was renamed the Hotel Rosoff and since 1996 it has operated as the Casablanca Hotel.

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