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It was the city's first hotel to have running water in every room. [2] The Metropole had a list of notable residents including Nick Arnstein and Western lawman-turned-sports writer Bat Masterson. In the early morning hours of July 16, 1912, the hotel was the site of the murder of Herman Rosenthal. [3] Rosenthal was the owner of several New York ...
Westchester's Forgotten Railway, 1912-1937: The story of a short-lived short line which was at once America's finest railway and its poorest: The New York, Westchester & Boston Railway. I & T Pub.. Arcara, Roger (1964). When the Westchester Was New: A supplement to Westchester's Forgotten Railway Journal and Railway Age Gazette.
The hotel's front entrance View toward the hotel. Library Hotel is a 60-room boutique hotel in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. [1] It is located at 299 Madison Avenue (at 41st Street), near Bryant Park, the New York Public Library Main Branch, and Grand Central Terminal. The hotel was designed by architect Stephen B. Jacobs. [2]
The New York, Westchester & Putnam Railway was formed on July 3, 1877, as a reorganization, and was leased to the New York City & Northern Railroad (NYC&N), formed on March 1, 1878. Between East View and Pocantico Hills , the NYC&N built a segment leading to a perilous 80-foot-high trestle over a marsh-filled valley. [ 3 ]
This is intended to be a complete list of the 82 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Bronx County, New York. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen in a map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates". [1]
The proximity to New York was a strong point of the station and the area, with commuters able to reach the southernmost point of Manhattan within fifty-three minutes or less. [6] The station was built in 1912 and remained in operation until 1938 when financial distress caused the New York, Westchester & Boston Railway to shut down.
The Greenwich Tramway [2] Through operations form New Rochelle to Stamford commenced soon after. [3] The Consolidated Railway was leased by the Connecticut Company on May 31, 1907. In the 1920s, management of the streetcar line was transferred to the New York, Westchester and Boston Railway, another subsidiary of the New Haven. Routes were ...
The station opened on May 29, 1912 as a local station of the New York, Westchester and Boston Railway (NYW&B), a subsidiary of the New York, New Haven and Hartford. [4] The line was designed for the weight of the heaviest mainline steam trains.