Manhattan..the most famous neighborhood in New York

Manhattan is one of the most famous neighborhoods of New York City in the United States of America. It is located on a downtown island on the estuary of the Hudson River. It includes Central Park, in addition to the most luxurious hotels, restaurants, homes, companies, city hall, mayor and many public interests.

Manhattan is the third largest of New York's five boroughs by population, and has a great business, financial, and cultural reputation.

New York is the most densely populated in the United States, and one of the most populous regions in the world.

Learn about the history of the Waldorf Astoria New York towers

The original hotel began as two hotels on Fifth Avenue built by feuding relatives, and on March 13, 1893 the first 13-story, 450-room Waldorf Hotel, designed in German Renaissance style by Henry Janeway Hardenberg, opened at the corner between St. Fifth Avenue and 33rd Street, where the mansion of millionaire developer William Waldorf Astor was located. The original hotel was 225 feet (69 meters) high, with a facade of about 100 feet (30 meters) on Fifth Avenue, and an area of ​​69,475 square feet (6454.4 square meters).

William Astor, motivated by a feud with his aunt Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor, built the Waldorf Hotel next door to her home, on the site of his father's mansion.

The hotel was built to the specifications of George Boldt, who owns and operates the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, a modern hotel on Broad Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with his wife Louise.

At first, the Waldorf Hotel seemed destined to fail, and was briefly known as "Boldt's Folly", with the general perception that there was no room for a luxury hotel in New York City, and wealthy New Yorkers were furious that they viewed the hotel's construction as the ruins of a good neighborhood.

Business travelers found it too expensive and too far from their needs.

In the face of all this backlash, George Boldt decided that the hotel would host a useful concert for St. Mary's Children's Hospital.

On the day of its opening, the hospital was the charity of choice for social registrants, and the ballroom was filled with many of the first families in New York, who paid five dollars for a concert and dinner at Waldorf, and quickly became a huge success, earning $ 4.5 million in its first year, which is An exorbitant amount for that period.

The Waldorf Astoria New York is a luxury hotel located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

The building at 301 Park Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets is a 47-story, 625-foot (191 m) Art Deco landmark designed by Schultz Weaver Architects, completed in 1931. The building was the tallest hotel in the world from 1931 until 1963, when it was overtaken by the Ukraine Hotel in Moscow by 23 feet (7.0 metres).

The current Waldorf Astoria, a symbol of luxury and luxury, is one of the most luxurious and famous hotels in the world.  

Currently, Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts is a division of Hilton Hotels, and a group of high-end hotels around the world now operate under that name, including in New York City.

Both the exterior and interior of the Waldorf Astoria have been designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission as official landmarks.

The Waldorf Astoria has gained international fame after relocating it in particular to lavish gala dinners and events, which are often at the heart of political and business conferences and fundraising plans involving the rich and famous.

After World War II in particular, it played an important role in world politics and the Cold War, culminating in the controversial March 1949 World Peace Conference at the Hotel, at which "Stalinism" was widely condemned.

Conrad Hilton acquired the rights to manage the hotel on October 12, 1949, and the Hilton Hotel Corporation finally purchased the hotel in 1972. It underwent a $150 million renovation by Lee Japlin in the 1980s and early 1990s, and in October 2014 it was announced that Anbang Insurance Group of China had Waldorf bought the Astoria New York for $1.95 billion, making it the most expensive hotel ever sold.

Midtown Manhattan skyscrapers and their history

New York City is the most crowded city in the United States of America, which is characterized by high-rise buildings that rise above the sky. And the height of those developed engineering buildings.

New York has a large group of such notable high-rise buildings such as the Empire State Building - the World Trade Center, and nearby four world trade centers and the Woolworth Building - Chrysler Building - New York Times Building - Cond Nast Building, most of which were considered for a long time the tallest building in the world.

The history of skyscrapers in New York City began with the completion of the New York World Building in 1890, and New York played a prominent role in the development of skyscrapers since that year, as the construction of high-rise buildings that skyscrapers in New York City flourished and developed from the early 1910s until the 1930s, which came out It has the first skyscraper in the world, the Chrysler Building, which consists of 77 floors, but the matter did not stop at this building, as the architects found that building skyscrapers works to provide many housing units in less space, through the vertical use of the building.

Therefore, multiple construction operations for skyscrapers were launched in New York. From 16 to 82 buildings were built in that simple period of 20 years, four of which were classified as the tallest building in the world, namely, Woolworth Building - Manhattan Bank - Chrysler Building - Empire State Building. The Empire State Building held on to the title for 40 years, and in 1960, after a 30-year hiatus, skyscrapers were built again and so far the city has nearly 70 buildings that are at least 600 feet tall.

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