Hotel Metropole
Hotel café as it appeared in 1913
General information
Address147 West 43rd Street
Town or cityManhattan, New York City
CountryUnited States
Coordinates40°45′23″N 73°59′08″W / 40.7563°N 73.9855°W / 40.7563; -73.9855
Opened1910 (1910)
Technical details
Floor count6
Casablanca Hotel in 2023

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]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Casablanca Hotel Fact Sheet". Library Hotel Collection - Landing. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  2. ↑ "Hotel Metropole". Infamous New York. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ "The Trial of the Century". 239 Days in America. 2012-11-14. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  5. ↑ Thurber, James; Lopresti, Robert (1991). Thurber on crime. New York: Mysterious Press. ISBN 978-0-89296-450-5. OCLC 23179012.
  6. ↑ "Wolfsheim - Great Gatsby Text Search". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
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