The Casablanca Hotel Times Square, formerly the Hotel Metropole, is a hotel in Manhattan, New York City, at 147 West 43rd Street just off Times Square.[1] It was the city's first hotel to have running water in every room.[2] The Metropole had a list of notable residents including Nick Arnstein and Western lawman-turned-sports writer Bat Masterson.
In the early morning hours of July 16, 1912, the hotel was the site of the murder of Herman Rosenthal.[3] Rosenthal was the owner of several New York gambling dens. This murder was allegedly at the behest of Charles Becker, a New York police detective who was executed in 1915 for that murder.[4] James Thurber wrote an article about this called "Two O'Clock at the Metropole".[5]
The Metropole's reputation for attracting gamblers is referenced in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. It appears in the dialogue as the location of a restaurant favored by Meyer Wolfsheim.[6] The hotel was where Joshua Shapira stayed in Little Odessa.
The Hotel Metropole later became the Hotel Rosoff and is now the Casablanca Hotel.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Casablanca Hotel Fact Sheet". Library Hotel Collection - Landing. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
- ^ "Hotel Metropole". Infamous New York. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
- ^ "Gambler Who Defied Police is Shot Dead; Rosenthal Killed in Front of the Hotel Metropole Early This Morning". The New York Times. 1912-07-16. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
- ^ "The Trial of the Century". 239 Days in America. 2012-11-14. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
- ^ Thurber, James; Lopresti, Robert (1991). Thurber on crime. New York: Mysterious Press. ISBN 978-0-89296-450-5. OCLC 23179012.
- ^ "Wolfsheim - Great Gatsby Text Search". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
External links
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