Meet me at the Biltmore


Subject: Meet me at the Biltmore
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 03 2001 - 12:55:06 GMT


Remember how Holden meets Sally under the clock at the Biltmore Hotel?
For years, that was a favorite meeting place in midtown Manhattan, but
it is gone now. For those who wonder what happened to it, an obituary
in today's NY Times clears it up:

The Times notes the death of real estate developer Seymour Milstein,
who was noted, among other things, for "outrag[ing] city officials and
preservationists [in 1981] by demolishing the famous Palm Court lounge
and gilded clock at the Biltmore Hotel on Madison Avenue, after
promising to restore them...."

A nice way to go down in history!

--tim o'connor

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