Cocktails, Hotel New Yorker 1950s Sizes:12x12 inch Archival Print (Unframed) An orchestra played in the

An orchestra played in the afternoons and evenings

the Commodore Hotel was constructed adjacent to Grand Central Station and opened in 1919

there was never any danger attached to going there

The interior frescoes were the work of Giovanni Battista Smeraldi

The Onondaga hotel was named for one of the original five constituent nations of the Iroquois who were a historically powerful northeast Native American confederacy

Cocktails, Hotel New Yorker 1950s Sizes:12x12 inch Archival Print (Unframed) An orchestra played in theThe 1940s and 1950s saw the Art Deco styled New Yorker at the peak of its popularity and it was widely regarded as one of New York's most fashionable hotels. Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey played there and the New York Observer noted that in the building's heyday, "actors, celebrities, athletes, politicians, mobsters, the shady and the luminousthe entire Brooklyn Dodgers roster during the glory seasonswould stalk the bars and ballrooms, or romp