Midtown Manhattan collection-international On the day of the

On the day of the speech

before the death of our collective attention

is one of the world's most recognized landmarks

Churchill defiantly said

Midtown Manhattan collection-international On the day of theIf you listen carefully, you can still hear Frank Sinatra singing in the grand Hotel Astor as he did from 1940 1942. Taken from the sidewalk, this photograph only hints at the hotels grand proportions. Built in 1905 in the Beaux Arts style, the hotel was envisioned as a successor to the Waldorf Astoria. It had 1,000 guest rooms, a green copper mansard roof, themed ballrooms, exotic restaurants and a rooftop garden. The hotel, however, had a relatively