Hotel Metropole | |
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General information | |
Address | 147 West 43rd Street |
Town or city | Manhattan, New York City |
Country | United States |
Coordinates | 40°45′23″N 73°59′08″W / 40.7563°N 73.9855°W |
Opened | 1910 |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 6 |
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]