Savoy Plaza Hotel

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The Savoy Plaza (center) between the Sherry-Netherland Hotel and 745 5th Avenue; on the far left is the Hotel Pierre, on the far right the Plaza Hotel.

The Savoy-Plaza Hotel was a skyscraper in New York City .

It stood in a row with the Hotel Pierre, the Sherry-Netherland Hotel , 745 5th Avenue and the Plaza Hotel on the southeastern edge of Central Park on 5th Avenue . While the other buildings mentioned still exist today, the Savoy-Plaza Hotel was demolished in 1964 and replaced by the General Motors Building .

Construction began in 1927 and was completed in 1930. It had 33 floors and a height of 128 m.

The hotel bar was a popular gay hangout during the Second World War .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Kaiser: The Gay Metropolis: 1940-1996 , Boston, New York (Houghton Mifflin) 1997. ISBN 0-395-65781-4 , p. 40

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Coordinates: 40 ° 45 ′ 49.6 "  N , 73 ° 58 ′ 22.1"  W.