Algonquin Hotel

The Algonquin Hotel is located in the 44th Street 5 to 6 Avenue in Manhattan, New York City ( Address: 59th West 44th Street, New York City, NY 10036 ). The hotel was opened in 1902 and soon became an important meeting place for artists.

History

From the hotel in June 1919 of a loose group of journalists, writers and actors who met there regularly became the meeting place of the Algonquin Round Table. The meetings developed for in the ten years of the almost daily routine. The meeting and its prominent participants are the reason that the hotel is now part of the cultural heritage of the city of New York. The core of the artists who dropped there at the time, including Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, Marc Connelly, Jane Grant, Ruth Hale, George S. Kaufman, Neysa McMein, Dorothy Parker, Harold Ross, Robert E. Sherwood, Al Hirshfeld and Alexander Woollcott.

Today on the building occupied a plaque with a quote from the theater critic Brooks Atkinson:

" The personalities who came together here, modified by their creations, the U.S. understanding of what constitutes a comedy, fundamentally and broke a new stage in the arts and the theater alley. "

The hotel was renovated in the 1940s, in the 1980s and 90s, and again in 2004. Regardless, survived the contemporary ambience of the hotel largely. 2005 the hotel for allegedly $ 74 million was sold.

Since the thirties always an indoor cat lives in Algonquin. This could still move anywhere until some time in the hotel and regularly receives fan mail.

The Oak Room is a well-known jazz and cabaret venue.