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The hotel's atrium lobby is placed on the eighth floor. [6] [31] [53] Because of security concerns when the hotel was constructed in the 1980s, there was originally only one set of escalators leading from street level to the hotel lobby. [53] A planted atrium rises 37 stories from the lobby to the rooftop restaurant. [54]
The lobby floor was made of Bardiglio marble with a black-and-gold border, while the wainscoting was made of verde antique marble. [14] The lobby also contains a carved plaster frieze on the walls. [15] Two marble columns in the lobby supported a ceiling with a Tiffany glass skylight, [14] [16] directly below the southern light court. [9]
The hotel was mostly constructed above Grand Central Terminal's railroad tracks, and different structural frameworks were used in the lower and upper stories. The ground level largely contained stores, and the lobby, dining rooms, and other public rooms were one floor above ground. The third through 18th floors contained 1,025 rooms.
The hotel had two interior staircases and several fire escapes when it was completed. [42] Leading from the lobby was a large stairwell, [44] [46] characterized as a spiral staircase. [60] The marble-and-iron stairway was intended to complement the lobby's marble floor, which was designed in a black-and-white checkerboard pattern. [33]
The hotel contains a power plant and boiler room on its fourth basement, which was an early example of a cogeneration plant. The public rooms on the lower stories included a Manufacturers Trust bank branch, a double-height lobby, and multiple ballrooms and restaurants. Originally, the hotel had 2,503 guestrooms from the fourth story up.
The lobby floor. Weary hotel dwellers nap in Fontainebleau lobby after Hurricane Cleo in 1964. Outside the Fontainebleau. The Fontainebleau as seen from Indian Creek accross Collins Avenue.
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