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The New Yorker Hotel is one of the most popular hotels that is located in New York City. It originally opened in 1930 after nearly two years of construction. The firm that was behind the architectural design of the building was Sugarman and Berger.

Like many of the buildings during that era, the building was designed making use of the Art Deco style that was most popular in the early years of the 20th century. The building was designed using a pyramid style of structure, and many say that they believe that it looks very much like the Empire State Building that is located just down the street from the New Yorker Hotel.

For most of the New Yorker Hotel’s existence it has been the largest hotel located in New York City with more than 2,500 rooms. Located inside of the building are a number of ballrooms, and ten private dining locations that are able to be rented out by the guests. Alongside those ten dining areas are five restaurants that feature 35 of the top chefs in the world.

The location also, at one point, featured a barber shop that was the largest in the world with more than 40 chairs available, along with a full staff. Throughout the history of the hotel, some of the largest names in the world have stayed there including Spencer Tracy, Fidel Castro and Nikola Tesla, who spent most of his later years living in the hotel.

The building has been owned by a number of different organizations throughout its history. In 1975, the location was bought by the Unification Church for just over $5,000,000. They eventually changed much of the building for church uses, before selling it in the 1990s. Today, the hotel falls under the Ramada franchise and is known as the Ramada New Yorker, although many still call the location the New Yorker Hotel.

When the location was first built, it featured its own private power plant. In the basement were a number of coal fired steam boilers that sat beside a number of generators. Through their own means they were able to produce more than 2200 kilowatts of direct current electric power. At the time, it was the largest privately owned power plant in the United States. Eventually, they were forced to modernize the system and tap into the city’s power grid when their way of producing power became obsolete.

The location was renovated in 1994 by the New Yorker Hotel Management Company. The project has been underway for nearly 7 years when it was stopped on 9/11/2001 following the terrorist attacks on America. They were resumed again in 2003, and continued over the course of the next five years. In less than 15 years, the renovations allowed them to add an additional 700+ rooms for rent.

Even today the New Yorker Hotel is one of the most popular hotel locations in New York City. The building on its own is a land mark location that attracts many tourists and sightseers each and every year

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