Cocktails, Hotel New Yorker 1950s Sizes:12x12 inch Archival Print (Unframed) was built on a cliff

was built on a cliff top overlooking the Hudson River and within sight of the George Washington Bridge and the bright lights of Manhattan

The Onondaga hotel was named for one of the original five constituent nations of the Iroquois who were a historically powerful northeast Native American confederacy

it had a two-story atrium

An orchestra played in the afternoons and evenings

just 19 years old

Cocktails, Hotel New Yorker 1950s Sizes:12x12 inch Archival Print (Unframed) was built on a cliffThe 1940s and 1950s saw the Art Deco styled New Yorker at the peak of its popularity and it was widely regarded as one of New York's most fashionable hotels. Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey played there and the New York Observer noted that in the building's heyday, "actors, celebrities, athletes, politicians, mobsters, the shady and the luminousthe entire Brooklyn Dodgers roster during the glory seasonswould stalk the bars and ballrooms, or romp