By Mark Singer The New Yorker, October 13 , 1975P. 32 Talk story about an electronic locking system replacing room keys at the Hotel Algonquin on West 44th Street.
The New Yorker, October 13 , 1975P. 32 Talk story about an electronic locking system replacing room keys at the Hotel Algonquin on West 44th Street.
And in New York City, a favoured destination due to its iconic image and excellent shopping, the Marriott Marquis has even replaced room numbers on the 44th floor with names, because the number four is considered bad luck in Chinese culture.
But Randall S. Koladis, a senior vice president at CB Richard Ellis here, cautioned that the construction occurring now is, in part, merely replacing rooms lost in recent closings: the struggling Hastings Hotel was shut just before last Christmas, about the same time the Hilton closed for renovation.
The ugly dragon of grime has been shackled and glasses without lenses have replaced rooms without windows.
In a magnanimous gesture, however, they offered to replace the room with one containing a kettle and a microwave.
For two years, they will replace the room's usual, limited number of blue-and-white pieces similar to Leyland's.
If the debris from that site was removed in less than a year (1.8 million tons in 10 months), is "several years" really the best it can do to replace a room's worth of switches?
40-year-old condo; dining room, wall-to-wall carpet in living room, c/a, deck, furnace replaced, laundry room and pool in complex; common charge $281; taxes $3,108; listed at $169,900.
Antonio Perez, the college's president, was ecstatic when he learned late Friday that City University administrators had found six trailers he could use as classrooms to replace the rooms in Fiterman Hall on West Broadway.
