Cocktails, Hotel New Yorker 1950s Sizes:12x12 inch Archival Print (Unframed) the Commodore Hotel was constructed

the Commodore Hotel was constructed adjacent to Grand Central Station and opened in 1919

Made in the UK

was built on a cliff top overlooking the Hudson River and within sight of the George Washington Bridge and the bright lights of Manhattan

there was never any danger attached to going there

it had a two-story atrium

Cocktails, Hotel New Yorker 1950s Sizes:12x12 inch Archival Print (Unframed) the Commodore Hotel was constructedThe 1940s and 1950s saw the Art Deco styled New Yorker at the peak of its popularity and it was widely regarded as one of New York's most fashionable hotels. Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey played there and the New York Observer noted that in the building's heyday, "actors, celebrities, athletes, politicians, mobsters, the shady and the luminousthe entire Brooklyn Dodgers roster during the glory seasonswould stalk the bars and ballrooms, or romp