The Hotel New Yorker

American multipurpose hotel opened in 1930 in Manhattan's "Hell's Kitchen" neighborhood in New York City; managed and operated by Wyndham Hotels & Resorts since 2000. Sugarman & Berger bureau designed The New Yorker in the Art Deco style. Over the years, The Hotel New Yorker accommodated numerous actors, musicians and politicians: John F. Kennedy, Fidel Castro (2), Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy (2), Mickey Rooney, and many Big Band leaders and singers, such as Peggy Lee, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman or Tommy Dorsey. Legendary boxer Muhammad Ali (2) recovered after his career-defining March 1971 fight with Joe Frazier at The New Yorker, while a famous inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla (2) spent the final years of his life and passed away at room 3327. In 1954, Hilton Hotels Corporation bought The New Yorker. It changed ownership multiple times over the next few decades, operated by Massaglia Hotels (1956–59), New York Towers Inc., again by Hilton (1967–72), the French and Polyclinic Medical School and Health Center, which unsuccessfully attempted to develop a hospital there, and the Unification Church (1976–94). The New Yorker became part of the Wyndham Hotels in 2000, initially under Ramada brand and as Wyndham since 2014.