Commodore

Active as Hyatt Grand Central New York

Address

Commodore Hotel, 109 East 42nd Street

GPS

40.751755677418, -73.976566670272

BOOK

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“Decided to commit suicide,” he announced suddenly.
“When? Next year?”
“Now. To-morrow morning. Going to take a room at the Commodore, get into a hot bath and open a vein.”
“He’s getting morbid!”
“You need another rye, old boy!”
“We’ll all talk it over to-morrow.”

This side of Paradise

Commodore Hotel hacia 1928. Imagen procedente de Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York.

Commodore Hotel circa 1928. Image from Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York.

Commodore Hotel hacia 1919. Imagen procedente de Library of Congress.

Commodore Hotel circa 1919. Image from Library of Congress.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Opened on 28 January 1919, it was a major hotel associated with Grand Central Station, with around two thousand rooms. Designed by Warren & Wetmore, it was built with a brick and terracotta façade and featured a large lobby conceived like an Italian courtyard, as well as dining rooms and ballrooms. After years of declining profitability, it closed on 18 May 1976. Between 1978 and 1980, the Hyatt chain and then-developer Donald Trump transformed it completely into the Grand Hyatt New York, reducing capacity to about fourteen hundred rooms and replacing almost all original decoration; a glass façade and a three-storey atrium were added, while the former ballroom was preserved.

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