| Hotel Metropole | |
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 Hotel café as it appeared in 1913 | |
 Interactive map of the Hotel Metropole area | |
| General information | |
| Location | 147 West 43rd Street, Manhattan, New York City, United States |
| Coordinates | 40°45′23″N73°59′08″W / 40.7563°N 73.9855°W /40.7563; -73.9855 |
| Opened | 1910 (1910) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 6 |
TheCasablanca Hotel Times Square, formerly theHotel Metropole, is a hotel inManhattan,New York City, at 147 West 43rd Street just offTimes Square.[1] It was the city's first hotel to have running water in every room.[2] The Metropole had a list of notable residents includingNick Arnstein and Western lawman-turned-sports writerBat Masterson.
In the early morning hours of July 16, 1912, the hotel was the site of the murder ofHerman Rosenthal.[3] Rosenthal was the owner of several New Yorkgambling dens. This murder was allegedly at the behest ofCharles Becker, a New York police detective who was executed in 1915 for that murder.[4]James Thurber wrote an article about this called "Two O'Clock at the Metropole".[5]
The Metropole's reputation for attracting gamblers is referenced inF. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novelThe Great Gatsby. It appears in the dialogue as the location of a restaurant favored byMeyer Wolfsheim.[6] The hotel was where Joshua Shapira stayed inLittle Odessa.
The Hotel Metropole later became the Hotel Rosoff and is now the Casablanca Hotel.[1]
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