Everything about The Gramercy Park Hotel totally explained
The
Gramercy Park Hotel in
New York City is a luxury
hotel located at 2
Lexington Avenue, next to
Gramercy Park, one of only a few private parks in the United States.
Hotel history
The Gramercy Park Hotel was one of New York’s truly legendary hotels, designed by
Robert T. Lyons and built by the famous developer brothers Bing and Bing in
1925. The hotel occupies the site of the former homes of flamboyant
architect Stanford White and controversial
agnostic Robert Ingersoll. In the hotel's first two years,
Humphrey Bogart lived in the hotel with his first wife
Helen Menken, just after marrying her, and the
Joseph P. Kennedy family stayed on the 2nd floor before moving to
London. During the
Great Depression,
Babe Ruth was a regular bar patron. An autographed picture of Ruth hung in the bar until it disappeared in the 1960s. In the 1940s,
Edmund Wilson lived in the hotel with novelist
Mary McCarthy. in the 1970s. The Canadian and Chicago part of the first cast of
Saturday Night Live stayed in the hotel during the show's premiere and
Paul Shaffer, the show's original bandleader, continued to live in the annex for another 16 years. Other former residents include writer
S. J. Perelman, actor
Matt Dillon, and playwright
David Mamet. Other notable guests include
the Clash,
Madonna, and
David Bowie.
By the late 1990s the hotel's ratings began to decline as the health of the hotel's owner for more than 30 years began to fail. His sons fought for control and, after a series of family tragedies, the hotel was subleased in
2002 to Steven Greenberg, the founder of the
Roxy nightclub. A bar was added to the roof but the restaurant closed. It began to attract a younger clientele and the prices began to increase rapidly.
Ian Schrager renovation
Following Herbert Weissberg's death in 2003 the Gramercy Park Hotel was sold to
Ian Schrager. It is now again a luxury hotel, completely redone but still somewhat reflecting the original bohemian feel of the original hotel. The hotel's eclectic history is pulled off in a collaboration with artist
Julian Schnabel who designed the interiors and many fixtures and furniture pieces throughout the hotel. The hotel also exhibits 20th century masterpieces by artists
Cy Twombly,
Andy Warhol,
Jean-Michel Basquiat,
Damien Hirst,
Richard Prince, and Julian Schnabel.
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