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The book publisher Michael Korda said in 1977 that the Grill Room was "the most powerful place to eat lunch in town". [30] Two years later, an Esquire article declared the Grill Room to be the setting for "America's Most Powerful Lunch". [31] [32] According to CNN, the term "power lunch" may have come from the Esquire article. [33]
The grill room's "stern" faced south toward 44th Street and contained a relic of the Gimcrack, the ship on which the NYYC had been founded in 1845. [42] [47] The New York Yacht Club Building's cafe. At the rear of the grill room were glass doors, [43] [47] which led to a billiards room with four billiards tables and another large fireplace.
Historical view of the grill room, with the elevated gallery at right. The basement originally contained a double-height grill room with a vaulted ceiling and elevated gallery. [38] [47] [24] It was known as the Della Robbia Room, after Luca Della Robbia, [47] [48] and could fit a thousand guests. [49]
The Roosevelt Hotel is a former hotel and a shelter for asylum seekers at 45 East 45th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.Named in honor of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt, the hotel was developed by the New York Central Railroad and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and opened in 1924.
The 22-story clubhouse contains three dining spaces (the "Tap Room," the "Grill Room," and the Roof Dining Room and Terrace), four bars (in the Tap Room, Grill Room, Main Lounge, and on the Roof Terrace), banquet rooms for up to 500 people (including the 20th-floor Grand Ballroom), 138 guest rooms, a library, a fitness and squash center with ...
The Rainbow Room is a private event space on the 65th floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza at Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Run by Tishman Speyer, it is among the highest venues in New York City. The Rainbow Room was designed by architect Wallace K. Harrison and interior designer Elena Bachman Schmidt. Opened in 1934, it was ...
Southern end of the Grand Ballroom, circa 1910. Within its restrained exterior, the Astor featured a long list of elaborately themed ballrooms and exotic restaurants: the Old New York lobby, the American Indian Grill Room decorated with artifacts collected with the help of the American Museum of Natural History, a Flemish smoking room, a Pompeiian billiard room, the Hunt Room decorated in ...
The club featured a lesser known upstairs gambling club where men would often meet their mistresses; however, after Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt discovered it, the room became the fashionable haunt of New York high society. [5] Mayor Jimmy Walker's victory celebration was held at the Colony in 1925. [5]