WALDORF ASTORIA NEW YORK
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Hotel with rooms converted into luxury boutiques on the first floor and apartments on the upper floors.
The Waldorf Astoria, built in 1931, temporarily closed its doors on March1, 2017 for major renovations. The long-awaited reopening is scheduled for 2024! For 86 years, the Waldorf Astoria was one of New York's most beautiful hotels, and certainly its most luxurious. From Marilyn Monroe to Audrey Hepburn, via Frank Sinatra, Charlie Chaplin and all the American presidents, the most prestigious and wealthiest tenants (US$15,000 per suite, after all) have stayed in its suites. Gangsters from the great Italian families also made the hotel their home during Prohibition. This iconic building appears in numerous films and TV series - Weekend at the Waldorf (1945), The Tenenbaum Family (2001), The Sopranos.
The Chinese insurance company that bought the building decided to completely renovate it, including part of its facade. The announcement of its closure for renovation in 2017 frightened many New Yorkers, worried at the idea of seeing this institution lose its splendor. However, the new Waldorf promises to be grandiose. Little information has been released about the construction work, except that the hotel section will be scaled back: from the original 1,400 rooms, only 375 will remain, larger and even more sumptuous. The ground-floor rooms will be transformed into luxury boutiques, and those on the upper floors into apartments. It has also been announced that a brasserie, run by the chef of Gramercy Tavern, will open in the lobby.
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