The Hotel Carter is a historic mansion in Manhattan located half a block west of Times Square. The building is 24 floors, and at its opening, it has 1,000 rooms, but now it has 700 rooms. When it was originally built, it was extended from 43rd Street to 42nd Street, although the wings abut 42nd Street has since been destroyed.
The facility was financed by a $ 2.2 million loan to Harold and Percy Uris by the New York State Title and Mortgage Company in May 1929. It was rented for $ 10,000 by M.C. Levine, from 535 5th Avenue, on April 22, 1930. Until October 1976, the place was called Dixie Hotel .
It has been ranked the dirtiest hotel in America from 2004-08. Many reports about TripAdvisor warn of bedbugs and unsafe conditions.
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History
Initial years
Excavations for the new structure began with the removal of six old tenement houses from the site in May 1929. The plot was torn down between 250-263 West 43rd Street along with a two-story "taxpayer" at 241 West 42nd Street. Several steel floor works were added to the framework in mid-October.
A bus depot at Dixie Hotel opened in February 1930. The terminal handles 350 buses daily during the peak summer season. The Central Union Bus Terminal has the largest covered hanging space in every bus station in New York. It occupies the main floor of the hotel and is managed separately. It's the entrance on 42nd Street and 43rd Street. The loading platform and waiting room are located five meters below the road surface. Buses enter and depart using separate ramps. A rotary table with a 35 foot diameter was employed to steer the bus into the exit. The movement of the bus is ruled by dispatchers using electrical signal devices. It was called the Short Line Bus Terminal in July 1931. Another business located at the hotel was Max Bachner's laundry. It was given a lease for operations in August 1929.
On Memorial Day, May 30, 1930, Dixie Hotel displayed Confederate battle flags. It depends from the south side of 43rd Street near 8th Avenue. One of the pedestrians mistook the flag for Union Jack. Clarence Darrow encouraged the Moving Image Advertisers representative to deny all types of censorship during the April 1931 lunch at the hotel.
In October 1931, a Federal judge appointed the Irving Trust Company as the recipient of the bankruptcy of the Harper Organization, Inc., and Harris H., and Percy Uris, its officers. The defendant's company owns Dixie Hotel. James B. Regan, former owner of Knickerbocker Hotel, is another designated recipient.
The hotel and bus station were sold in March 1932, during the Great Depression, to pay debts of $ 2,058,540. The property is worth $ 2,300,000. In April 1932, Southworth Management Corporation, headed by Roy S. Hubbell, took over the control of the hotel's operations. Hubbell previously managed the Hotel Commodore and the Belmont Hotel in New York City. The Southworth Management Corporation is affiliated with William Ziegler Jr. The company has jurisdiction over the location of the destroyed Belmont Hotel on 42nd Street and Park Avenue (Manhattan). Hubbell, whose main residence in Pelham, New York, died in October 1932 in his bedroom at Dixie Hotel at the age of 55 years. Carter Hotels Corporation took over the management of the business in 1942.
In April 1942, Dixie Hotel experienced an increasing number of executives and business partners who chose their residence as a permanent residence. Management responded by redecorating and setting up a room unit for accommodation as a family room during the day and bedroom in the evening. Jacobowitz & amp; Katz, an investor, bought taxpayers adjacent to the hotel in July 1951. The building, located on 264 West 43rd Street, was formerly occupied by Loft's. The deal was brokered by Harry G. Silverstein. The property has a tax value of $ 35,000.
Year later and downhill
The bus terminal was closed in 1957 due to low passenger numbers compared to the Port Authority Bus Terminal on 8th Avenue between 40th and 41st Streets.
255 seat Bert Wheeler Theater opened at the hotel, ten steps above its entrance, in October 1966. Autumn's Here , musical comedy, was his first attraction. The theater is located in the Plantation Room of the hotel. It is 60 feet long and 45 feet wide. It was previously used as a nightclub and then as a restaurant. A circular bar, 50 feet in circumference, adjacent to the theater, and located behind a glass door. It was closed during the show, except for twenty minutes of rest. Meals are served in the Terrace Room, the hotel's restaurant. In June 1967 Follies Burlesque '67 reopened at Bert Wheeler Theater, having opened at the Players Theater in Greenwich Village. The players include Mickey Hargitay and Toni Karrol.
Through the mid-1970s, the hotel restaurant was a daily gathering place for professional magicians and local amateurs and guests to lunch at the "Dixie Round Table" where they traded tricks and stories. Famous regular visitors include Harry Blackstone, Cardini, and many others. The Carter Theater at the Carter Hotel presented Aesop's Fables in 15 theatrical styles in November 1979. The drama was produced by the Theater Workshop and the Broadway-Times Theater Company. The off Broadway musical, Ka-Boom! , debuting at the Carter Theater in November 1980. This space is now occupied by the Cheetah Gentleman club.
In 1976, the company allocated $ 250,000 for renovations and signed changes in an attempt to "cleanse" Times Square. H.B. Carter, the president of the company, wants to change the name of the hotel to give one of the companies in the corporate identity chain. The company controls four other hotels in Buffalo, New York and Boston, Massachusetts. Vietnamese businessman and former ship owner, Tran Dinh Truong, bought the hotel in October 1977. Carter is portrayed as a company serving "middle-class tourists [and] have suffered with a decline in the surrounding area."
In December 1983, the Carter Hotel was home to 190 families. The month was cited for consistently low compliance rates in improving health and safety violations. The city sued the hotel in 1983 and 1984 for its failure to correct any violations. In March 1985, Truong was found in court humiliation and ordered to pay a $ 10,000 fine. New York City used the hotel as a homeless shelter in June 1984. The entrance of the 43rd Street hotel became a gathering place for teenagers and children. By the end of 1985, Carter had greatly reduced the number of homeless families living in his rooms. The number of homeless families decreased from 300 to 61. City paid Carter $ 62.62 to have a family in a small room. In one instance the room was musty, with peeling wallpaper, and ragged carpets. The smell in the room was very strong. The hotel starts trying to attract tourists once again. New York City removed all homeless families from Carter in 1988 due to difficulties with plumbing, electrical, security, and pests. In July 1990, Penthouse Hostel operated on lease on floors 23 and 24 at Hotel Carter. Boardboard was barely visible under Carter's tent. The lodging there provides an alternative to the American Youth Hostels organization.
In December 1998 the hotel was temporarily closed because the emergency exit door was damaged.
Tran died in 2012, with his surviving family battles over who gets the ownership of the hotel. The GF management took over the ownership of the hotel in April 2013, and the hotel is offered for sale in 2014 after a massive renovation.
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Incidents and issues
Crime
Sidney Miller, a clerk at the Dixie Hotel, was arrested for violating New York state anthology law during a raid on Square Books, at 584 7th Avenue, in April 1966. Her arm, Edward Mishkin, was previously convicted of publishing material that was not profanity.. His conviction was upheld by the United States Supreme Court in March 1966.
Darrell Bossett, an unemployed worker, was arrested after a dispute with police in a room on the fourth floor of the Carter Hotel, in December 1980. He was accused of first-degree murder and second-degree murder and possession of weapons, in New York shootings. York City Police Officer Gabriel Vitale.
Death
At least nine deaths occurred at the hotel, including four suicides and four murders.
William Lindsay Gresham, author of the novel noir "Nightmare Alley," found him suffering from tongue cancer, checked himself into a hotel known as Dixie Hotel during that time, and committed suicide in Room 2023 by taking an overdose of sleeping pills on September 14, 1962.
George R. Sanders of Brooklyn jumped from the 14th floor of the hotel on March 13, 1931. His body crashed into the roof of a one-story restaurant adjacent to Dixie. He landed at the foot of two customers and the night manager. She left a note in her room identifying herself and citing mental depression as an excuse to commit suicide.
Olga Kibrick, the daughter of a Brockton, a wealthy Massachusetts insurance executive, committed suicide by jumping from the rooftop of the hotel to a third floor extension on the west side of the building in October 1931. He had lived on the 21st floor. Police found Chorus Brockton's Music card in his room , along with 15 cents in turn, gloves, and a wallet.
Body James M. Fairbanks, former manager of brokerage firm Tucker, Anthony, & amp; Co., was discovered by a hotel employee on a three-floor extension roof, in April 1932. Fairbanks committed suicide to avoid punishment for embezzling $ 290,000 from his employer. He stayed in the 2002 room the night before he was sentenced between five and 10 years for the offense.
In September 1941, a young man from Wayne, Nebraska burned to death after falling asleep on the 12th floor of the hotel. The story made headlines when the reporters discovered that shortly after his arrival, he received a letter from his father. Fredereick S. Berry Jr. warned by his parents about a sign that his mother had something terrible happen to him. Berry was found by a hotel employee seated in a chair, with clothes on top of her body completely burned. He died after being taken to Roosevelt Hospital.
A 25-year-old baby was beaten to death at the hotel in November 1983. Her father, Jack Joaquin Correa, a resident of the hotel, was accused of murder and child abuse.
In 1987, a woman was thrown to her death from the window of one of the upper floors after witnesses heard arguing from room 1604.
In July 1999, an employee who stayed at the hotel stabbed fatally and hit colleagues during a fight near the front desk.
On August 31, 2007, a housekeeper found Kristine Yitref's body, wrapped in a plastic garbage bag and hidden under a bed in Room 608. Sex offender Clarence Dean was accused of murder. Yitref, as Mrs Kris, was previously a member of the gothic rock group, The Nuns. She has turned into prostitution at the time of her death to support drug addiction.
Sanitation issues
On July 22, 2009 the Glenn Beck Program highlighted reports on the dirt and collapse of the Carter Hotel. Beck reviews reviews with more than 500 very negative reviews. The Bed Bug Registry has listed many reports over the past few years citing the experience of former visitors with the hotel: Everything from rats and cockroaches to sleep bug attacks. In 2011, TripAdvisor.com owns the listed Carter Hotel as no. 4 in the Top 10 Dirtiest Hotels in America, based on reviews and user ratings. The hotel is also mentioned in USA Today in relation to "winning" the title as the dirtiest hotel in the US in 2009.
In 2013-2014, GF Management modifies the Hotel Carter to make it more desirable for guests, including increasing the frequency of household services from every 3 days to every other day; renovating 30 rooms on the fourth floor; and replace the mattress in the room with reports of bedbugs. Before the repair, the new owner recalls the broken elevator; The firefighter is 40 years old; an unclear emergency exit; no weekend doormen; "disposable hospital linen" on the bed; inadequate insurance; and the maturity of the loan, according to The New York Times. As a result of this increase, hotel satisfaction rates increased from 67.6% in 2012 to 73.7% in 2014.
In popular culture
In 2012 the hotel was seen during the "Understudy" episode of NBC's Smash show, Megan Hilty as Ivy Lynn was seen walking down the street.
In 1969 the hotel was spotted during the musical number "I am a Brass Band" in the movie "Sweet Charity". The name "Hotel Dixie" was previously seen behind Shirley MacLaine, as Charity Valentine, as she danced with the drummers during the shooting scene on the rooftop parking of the New York Port Authority Bus Terminal at the corner of West 42nd Street and 8th Avenue.
References
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External links
- Official website
- Hotel Dixie at art.com
- Reviews of Hotels in TripAdvisor.com
- Sweet Fruits Location at IMDB.com
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