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Up in The Old (Fulton Ferry) Hotel
Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Students of New York’s literary history ought to be familiar with our latest location, the Fulton Ferry Hotel. Joseph Mitchell, author and chronicler of NYC’s extraordinary ordinary citizens, immortalized the building in his 1952 New Yorker story, “Up in the Old Hotel.” Much of the hotel remains as Mitchell found it. Watch now.

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