Hotel McAlpin
- Also Known As: Herald Towers
- Address: 1282 - 1300 Broadway
- Vicinity: 6th Ave, W 34th St
- Neighborhood of Garment District in
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1911/00/00 | Frank Mills Andrews | Architect | Construction begins on the Hotel McAlpin. Designed by architect Frank M Andrews, Andrews is also president of the Greeley Square Hotel Company which will operate the hotel. | |||
| 1912/12/29 | Built for Edwin A McAlpin, son of David H McAlpin, at a cost of $13.5 million, the 25 story Hotel McAlpin opens as the largest hotel in the world. | |||||
| 1916/12/24 | Harry K Thaw | Attacker | Harry Thaw sexually assaults and beats 19-year-old Fred Gump Jr with a stocky whip in a suite on the 18th Fl of the Hotel McAlpin. Thaw had enticed Gump to New York pretense of underwriting the teenagers enrollment at Carnegie Institute. | Assault on Fred Gump and Murder of Maizie Colbert | ||
| 1920/00/00 | The Army Signal Corps broadcast singer Luisa Tetrazzini from her room in the McAlpin. | |||||
| 1947/04/00 | Jackie Robinson | Work | Jackie Robinson, a resident living on the 11th floor, receives the phone call from the Brooklyn Dodgers that he is about to become the first African American player in Major League Baseball. |
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