Reply #4: the crown jewel of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue [View All]

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so sad that nothing seems to last in America ...

I don't have much except for a few random memories ... but, glad, now, that I got to go to the Plaza's once-upon-a-time-famed Persian Room (saw singer John Davidson) in the early 1970s; and, got to eat Easter Brunch in the Palm Court in the 1980s ...

"On August 14, 2004, an article by James Barron in The New York Times reported that the hotel was being sold for $675 million to Elad Properties by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia and Millennium & Copthorne, a London-based company that runs hotels in 18 countries. The sellers had acquired the hotel from Donald J. Trump for $325 million."
http://www.thecityreview.com/plaza.html



the Connaught in London and old hotels of "Old Europe" are still going