If you’re looking for evidence of a more glamorous time in New York City, you’ll come across it in the vintage mosaic tiles and gold Romanesque staircases of the Martinique Hotel, where such rapt attention to architectural detail resulted in a perfect loop of stairs spiraling to the top floor.
Constructed in 1898, the historic hotel situated on Greeley Square has seen two world wars and the Spanish flu, served as a welfare hotel and was eventually turned into a Holiday Inn.
But never has the hotel’s life been hanging by a thread as thin as during the last two years, when it was shut down, bereft of
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