Donald Trump owned it. The Beatles camped out there on their first trip to the U.S. Truman Capote threw his famous Black & White Ball in its Grand Ballroom. And twenty years later Crocodile Dundee hung his skivvies out the window.
New York City's Plaza Hotel opened its doors 100 years ago this week, and is about to do so again in December, restored and rehabbed as hotel-cum-condo-cum-luxury superbrand: purchasers the El Ad Group plan to open Plazas in London, Rome, San Francisco and other metropolitan hubs, with a Vegas Plaza soaring on the Strip in 2011 (we suspect Eloise would find this all rawther much).
Inside the Plaza: An Intimate Portrait of the Ultimate Hotel by Ward Morehouse III gives you the inside dope on the great dame's history.
written on Wednesday Oct 3, 2007
the plaza qualifies for a willard scott shoutout.
