Cafe New York
The Café New York is a magnificent coffee house from the early days in Budapest .
The New York Life Insurance Company was the beginning of the 1890 years at present address Erzsébet körút 9-11, in the VII. District of Budapest (Erzsébetváros) build a magnificent building. On the ground floor and basement there was and still is the aforementioned café ( New York kávéház in Hungarian ). It was opened on October 23, 1894 and survived wars and regime changes largely undamaged. After years of renovation from 2001, the café was reopened on May 5, 2006.
history
The American insurance company commissioned architect Alajos Hauszmann with the planning of their magnificent building on Budapest's Great Ring . Hauszmann, with the help of Flóris Korb and Kálmán Giergl , designed a historicist building with lavish decor (the statue decorations were made by Károly Senyey). Over the decades, the café became a popular meeting place for intellectuals and writers in Budapest. Among others, the following people frequented (and wrote): Ferenc Molnár , Dezső Kosztolányi , Frigyes Karinthy . Filmmakers such as Alexander Korda and Michael Curtiz also met here later , when his name was Mihály Kertész Kaminer .
The interior of the café with its twisted columns is partly reminiscent of the baroque church interior. During the communist era it was called " Hungaria ". After the turnaround and a long period of uncertainty, the building was taken over by the Italian hotel group Boscolo Hotels in February 2001 and converted into a luxury hotel with 107 rooms. In connection with the creation of the New York Palace Boscolo, Budapest , the café was also reactivated. The stylish renovation received the Europa Nostra medal in 2007 .
Web links
- Official website (Hungarian, English, German)
Coordinates: 47 ° 29 ′ 54 ″ N , 19 ° 4 ′ 14 ″ E