Old Knick restored
The Knickerbocker Hotel in Manhattan's Times Square.The limestone and terra cotta hotel was built in 1906 by then developer John Jacob Astor lV who unfortunately went down in the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.
The Knickerbocker wasn't always a hotel,from 1940-1959 it was known as the Newsweek Building after the weekly news magazine.It was converted back to it's original use as a hotel in 2015 with 330 rooms,it had 556 rooms when it first opened in 1906.
The famous operatic tenor Enrico Caruso lived at the Knickerbocker hotel for many years with his family.When the announcement came that the Great War (WW1) had ended,Caruso from his window led the crowd outside into a lively rendition of the American national anthem followed by the Italian national anthem.
Old Knick restored
The Knickerbocker Hotel in Manhattan's Times Square.The limestone and terra cotta hotel was built in 1906 by then developer John Jacob Astor lV who unfortunately went down in the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.
The Knickerbocker wasn't always a hotel,from 1940-1959 it was known as the Newsweek Building after the weekly news magazine.It was converted back to it's original use as a hotel in 2015 with 330 rooms,it had 556 rooms when it first opened in 1906.
The famous operatic tenor Enrico Caruso lived at the Knickerbocker hotel for many years with his family.When the announcement came that the Great War (WW1) had ended,Caruso from his window led the crowd outside into a lively rendition of the American national anthem followed by the Italian national anthem.