#ansoniahotel

[henryseneyee]

#theAnsonia #pleinair #penandink #illustration by #HenrySeneYee - #fude #dukefude551 #fudefountainpen #ecolineBrushPen #warmGrey #architecturalDrawing #nycurbansketchers #urbansketchers #ansoniaHotel #ansoniaBuilding #ansonia #newyorkcity #ansonia @nycurbansketchers (at The Ansonia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpiFafgr33s/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[kaploded2]

#Repost @museumofcityny with @repostapp ・・・ In this building blackmail was crafted, Stravinsky composed, the Black Sox plotted, and swingers partied at Plato’s Retreat. Not all at the same time obviously, but still, the Ansonia hotel has quite the backstory. Originally built as a residential hotel by William Earle Dodge Stokes, it featured 1,400 rooms and 340 suites. The hotel’s residents lived in luxurious apartments with multiple bedrooms, parlors, libraries, and formal dining rooms, and basement featured the world’s largest indoor pool. Plus, it was the first air-conditioned hotel in #NYC. Famous residents included Babe Ruth; writer Theodore Dreiser, the leader of the Bahá'í Faith `Abdu'l-Bahá; conductor Arturo Toscanini; composer Igor Stravinsky; fashion designer Koos van den Akker; Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld. The hotel has also played host to multiple historical moments. It is said that on September 21, 1919, a group of Chicago White Sox players assembled in the hotel room of first baseman Arnold “Chick” Gandil and agreed to throw the World Series for roughly $10,000 per person. From 1968 until 1975 Prior to Plato's Retreat, the building housed the Continental Baths, a gay bathhouse where multiple stars including Bette Midler provided entertainment. Then, from 1977 until 1980, The hotel's basement was home to swinger’s club Plato's Retreat, until Mayor Ed Koch shut the club down due to health concerns. The Ansonia was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. We highly suggest looking more into this place as there is way too much fascinating history to put in this post without making it enormous. #nychistory #seeyourcity #ansoniahotel #history #baseballhistory #historicalfigures #OnlyinNY . . . Image Information: X2011.34.1136 American News Company Ansonia Apartment Hotel, New York DATE:ca. 1905

[lgbt-history-archive]

Bette Midler, The Continental Baths, New York City, 1970. Between 1968 and 1972, the Continental Baths, located in the basement of the Ansonia Hotel, was perhaps the greatest American bathhouse. In addition to many performances by the relatively unknown Bette Midler and pianist Barry Manilow (who, like the patrons, sometimes wore only a white towel), the Continental featured a disco floor, a cabaret lounge, saunas, a swimming pool, an STD clinic, an alarm system to alert guests of the arrival of police, and KY Jelly in every vending machine. #lgbthistory #lgbtherstory #gay #bi #lesbian #trans #pride #continentalbaths #bettemidler #bathhousebetty #divinemissm #barrymanilow #aintlikeitusedtobe #ansoniahotel #weekend (at Ansonia Realty)

[moveonfast]

#bettemidler #barrymanilow #bathhouse #newyork #manhattan #ansonia #ansoniahotel

[bronxbanter]

When I walk past the great old Ansonia Hotel I may think about Babe Ruth or Saul Bellow or Plato's Retreat but what I hear is Walter Matthau bellowing: "The Finger!" #thesunshineboys #ansoniahotel #seizethedaybellow #upperwestside #summerinthecity #nyclove

[staycrispymyfriends]

Fbf The #Ansoniahotel first hotel to offered air conditioning in #NYC #realestate #nycrealestate #nycarchitecture #upperwestside #UWS

[thisisawkwardnyc]

On my way in #toys #figurine #found #NYC #AnsoniaHotel (Taken with Instagram)

[staycrispymyfriends]

Fbf The #Ansoniahotel first hotel to offered air conditioning in #NYC #realestate #nycrealestate #nycarchitecture #upperwestside #UWS