What happened to the Plaza Hotel in New York?

[sfvoyager]

Am I missing something? I have looked everywhere for info on the Plaza Hotel in New York, and there is absolutely nothing!

 

Did it close?

[smeyer418]

Its being renovated. Although many of the rooms will be chamged into condo apartments. It will reopen as a smaller hotel but not until next year,

[Jane110]

Sadly, the Plaza Hotel closed this past July. It will be mostly condo's and a few hotel rooms and it'll never be the same. It's glory is gone and it was a sad summer for us New Yorkers.

 

I went to the sale and bought some nice memorabilia.

 

Jane

[BlueHerons]

It will re-open at some point with the ballrooms, the Oak Bar, and and Oak Room intact and 150 hotel rooms. The rest will be luxury condos.

[BlueHerons]

Sadly, the Plaza Hotel closed this past July. It will be mostly condo's and a few hotel rooms and it'll never be the same. It's glory is gone and it was a sad summer for us New Yorkers.

 

I went to the sale and bought some nice memorabilia.

 

Jane

 

I have matches and cocktail napkins that I can't throw away! I spent some very lovely Christmas Eves in The Oak Bar and have eaten many a brunch in The Palm Court.

 

A good friend of mine had secret service evacuate the hotel one time because of an erector set and the fact that Winston Churchill was in the suite above his family's.

 

I can understand what New Yorkers felt like when Penn Station was torn down!

 

You have to wonder what people like Sarah Jessica Parker and Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas feel. Not to mention the thousands of other people who celebrated anniversaries, weddings, parties, bar mitzvahs etc.

[sfvoyager]

Ohmigosh! I am devestated! Condos? Is this a Donald Trump venture?

 

To me, The Plaza epitomized luxury hotels in New York. I am glad to hear the Oak Room will remain. I too, had wonderful memories ranging from a suite overlooking Central Park in the snow on New Year's Day to dining in the Oak Room to sighting a neighbor in San Francisco having an affair! (And I don't mean a Bar Mitzvah in the ballroom.)

 

I guess we will have to have a drink with Sarah Jessica Parker in Peacock Alley to mourn the loss. Oh wait...isn't that gone too. They better leave the Waldorf alone!

[Jane110]

They're also going to make sure that the famous painting of "Emily, who lives at the Plaza" will be re-hung in a prominent place.

 

At the sale I bought some items w/ the Plaza logo like 3 foot long shoe-horns, in-room NYC guides and other memorabilia.

 

It was soooooo sad.

 

Jane

[BlueHerons]

Did you mean Eloise instead of Emily?