Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (and Neighbors), NYC, 2017.
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Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (and Neighbors), NYC, 2017.
More pixels than you or I can afford, except maybe for a special occasion, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/32609074081
#photography
The Waldorf-Astoria is perhaps New York’s most prominent monument to jazz age luxury and glamor. It’s been the traditional residence for US presidents and foreign heads of state when in town (the “presidential suite” was meant rather literally there).
Built over the below-grade railyard of Grand Central Terminal, the hotel was equipped with a private rail siding and platform where guests could park their personal railcars(!). (Andy Warhol once threw a party on the platform.)
(The Waldorf is currently part of the Hilton hotel group, but I’m not sure if there have been any prominent assassinations there.
Update: Hmm. As of 1999, there had been at least four homicides there, but it’s unclear if any of them qualify as prominent targeted assassinations. See https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/14/nyregion/man-is-found-slain-at-the-waldorf-astoria-hotel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fk4.atS7.zxI63ob2nybw&smid=url-share )
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https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/18/nyregion/circumstances-that-made-slaying-waldorf-big-case-for-police-analysis.html
@a_cubed@mastodon.social That one seems to have been a botched robbery though. Probably not targeted assassination.
@mattblaze@federate.social Amtrak will still haul your private railcar. https://www.amtrak.com/privately-owned-rail-cars