Last November, the Post‘s Steve Cuozzo railed against the campaign to preserve Hotel Pennsylvania, which he called "one of the gloomiest structures between the Battery and The Bronx."
Now, the paper is listing the old Glenn Miller hangout among its "10 Endangered Buildings Worth Saving" — No. 2, in Read More
One-time demolition target Hotel Pennsylvania continues to line landlord Steve Roth’s pockets, giving him even more reason to hang on to the old McKim, Mead & White-designed lodge. Quarterly figures released this week by Mr. Roth’s Vornado Realty Trust show the historic hotel generating even more revenue than last year — Read More
MTV is sponsoring a contest to promote the upcoming action film Max Payne starring Mark Wahlberg–and talk about the perfect setting for a gritty cop-movie gimmick! "To celebrate the release of this slick new thriller, MTV is giving one lucky winner and a friend an NYPD trip to New York City. You’ll Read More
After months of talk about demolishing the historic Hotel Pennsylvania to make way for a soaring office tower, landlord Vornado Realty Trust has acknowledged that it might just hang on to the McKim, Mead & White-designed, Dave Barry-panned, so-called "World’s Most Popular Hotel," after all.
"First off, it is doing damn Read More
With Merrill Lynch staying put downtown and plans to redevelop Penn Station in flux, Vornado CEO Steven Roth may not know what to do with the Hotel Pennsylvania–a building the company once described as "a placeholder, sort of like a parking lot."
In the meantime, the Read More
At least one preservation group is speaking up on behalf of the endangered Hotel Pennsylvania.
The Historic Districts Council (HDC) has formally asked the Landmarks Preservation Commission to hold a hearing on proposals to protect the old McKim, Mead & White-designed hotel, which owner Vornado Realty Trust has threatened to demolish.
"Much Read More
You knew it was over when several panelists started singing the old familiar melody to Glenn Miller’s "Pennsylvania 6-5000."
A resolution to protect the historic Hotel Pennsylvania from demolition is on its way to the Landmarks Preservation Commission after local Community Board 5 voted 21 to 8 on Thursday night to preserve Read More
