Rediscover the Oldest and Arguably Most Famous Hotel in New York

Willis Loughhead, general manager The Algonquin Hotel in midtown Manhattan, talks with James Shillinglaw of Insider Travel Report about the history of this famed property, now part of Marriott’s Autography Collection, which made its debut in 1902. The hotel also is famed for being the host of the Algonquin Roundtable, a regular gathering of writers, poets, playwrights and other artists in the 1920s and 1930s (and the roundtable still exists today). Loughhead talks about the accommodations, public rooms, programming that reflects the hotel’s heritage—and the hotel cat! For more information, visit www.algonquinhotel.com.

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