# The Pierre > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Pierre > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Pierre.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pierre > Source revision: 1353711536 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Hotel in Manhattan, New York}} {{about|the New York City hotel|other uses|Pierre (disambiguation)}} {{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox hotel | name = The Pierre | logo = | logo_size = | image = Central Park New York May 2015 007.jpg | caption = The Pierre seen from Central Park | location = 2 [East 61st Street](/source/61st_Street_(Manhattan))
[Manhattan](/source/Manhattan), New York City | pushpin_map = | mapframe-wikidata = yes | coordinates = {{coord|40|45|54|N|73|58|18|W|display=inline}} | diamonds = | construction_start_date = | construction_stop_date = | topped_out_date = | completion_date = | opened_date = 1930 | inauguration_date = | relocated_date = | renovation_date = | closing_date = | demolished_date = | developer = | architect = Schultze & Weaver | operator = | owner = [Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces](/source/Taj_Hotels_Resorts_and_Palaces) | number_of_restaurants = | number_of_rooms = | number_of_suites = | floor_area = | floor_count = 41{{cite web|url=http://www.emporis.com/building/hotelpierre-newyorkcity-ny-usa|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130425191158/http://www.emporis.com/building/hotelpierre-newyorkcity-ny-usa|url-status=usurped|archive-date=April 25, 2013|title=Hotel Pierre, New York City – 114777 |author=Emporis GmbH|work=[Emporis](/source/Emporis)}} | parking = | height = {{convert|525|ft|m}} | website = [https://www.thepierreny.com/ The Pierre New York] | footnotes = }} {{Coord|40.7650308|N|73.9716607|W|display=title|scale:5000_region:US-NY|format=dms}} '''The Pierre''' is a luxury hotel located at 2 [East 61st Street](/source/61st_Street_(Manhattan)), at the intersection of that street with [Fifth Avenue](/source/Fifth_Avenue), in [Manhattan](/source/Manhattan), [New York City](/source/New_York_City), facing [Central Park](/source/Central_Park). Designed by [Schultze & Weaver](/source/Schultze_and_Weaver), the hotel opened in 1930 with 100+ employees, now with over a thousand. In 2005, the hotel was acquired by [Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces](/source/Taj_Hotels_Resorts_and_Palaces) of India. Standing {{convert|525|ft|m}} tall, it is located within the [Upper East Side Historic District](/source/Upper_East_Side_Historic_District) as designated in 1981 by the [New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission](/source/New_York_City_Landmarks_Preservation_Commission). ==History== ===Context=== Charles Pierre Casalasco left his father's restaurant in [Ajaccio](/source/Ajaccio), [Corsica](/source/Corsica), where he had started as a busboy,{{efn|Casalasco and the founding of The Pierre follows the account in (Simon 1978), reported on-line at [http://www.thecityreview.com/piersher.html the City Review].}} assumed Charles Pierre as his full professional name, and began work at the Hotel Anglais in [Monte Carlo](/source/Monte_Carlo).{{efn|Glamorized history reports his father as owner of the Hotel Anglais, and Charles Pierre as rubbing shoulders with the Russian grand dukes and European royalty who patronized his father's hotel.}}{{when|date=May 2025}} Charles Pierre went on to study ''[haute cuisine](/source/haute_cuisine)'' in Paris, and he later traveled to London where he met the American restaurateur, [Louis Sherry](/source/Louis_Sherry), who offered him a position. After Pierre arrived in New York as a 25-year-old immigrant,{{when|date=May 2025}} he made his first mark as first assistant at Sherry's Restaurant and became professionally acquainted with members of the [Social Register](/source/Social_Register), as well as newer millionaires like [J. P. Morgan](/source/J._P._Morgan) and the [Vanderbilts](/source/Harold_Vanderbilt). After nine years at Sherry's,{{harvnb|Simon|1978}}: "Smart women were beginning to smoke in public rooms. Mr. Sherry forbade such smoking in his restaurant, an irritating, old-fashioned prohibition, Pierre thought, and, after flights of heated words he left." Pierre left, first for the [Ritz-Carlton](/source/Ritz-Carlton) on Madison Avenue at 46th Street, then opening his own restaurant on 45th Street immediately west of Fifth Avenue, and finally at Pierre's on Park at 230 Park Avenue.{{when|date=May 2025}} ===Development and early years=== [[File:The Pierre Rotunda 2018.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.2|The Rotunda with mural painted by [Edward Melcarth](/source/Edward_Melcarth)]] At the height of his success, dissatisfied with the increasing democratization of public manners, Pierre sold his restaurant and entered a joint venture with a group of Wall Street financiers, "among them [Otto H. Kahn](/source/Otto_Kahn), Finley J. Shepherd (who had married [Helen Gould](/source/Helen_Miller_Shepard)), [Edward F. Hutton](/source/Edward_F._Hutton), [Walter P. Chrysler](/source/Walter_P._Chrysler), and [Robert Livingston Gerry, Sr.](/source/Robert_Livingston_Gerry%2C_Sr.) (the son of [Elbridge Thomas Gerry](/source/Elbridge_Thomas_Gerry), lawyer, philanthropist and grandson of [Elbridge Gerry](/source/Elbridge_Gerry), the inventor of '[Gerrymandering](/source/Gerrymandering)')".{{sfn|Simon|1978}} The 714-room, 41-story hotel that rose {{convert|525|ft|m}} on the site of the [Gerry mansion](/source/Elbridge_Gerry_Mansion) at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 61st Street allowed for unrestricted views of Central Park. It cost $15 million (approximately ${{Inflation|US-GDP|15|1930|r=-1}} million in {{Inflation-year|US-GDP}}) to build and opened to grand fanfare in October 1930 as The Pierre. The building was designed by the New York firm of [Schultze and Weaver](/source/Schultze_and_Weaver) as a skyscraper that rises in a blond-brick shaft from a limestone-fronted [Louis XVI](/source/Louis_XVI_Style) base.Schultze, Leonard, S. Fullerton Weaver, Marianne Lamonaca, and Jonathan Mogul. Grand Hotels of the Jazz Age: the Architecture of Schultze & Weaver. Miami Beach: Wolfsonian-Florida International University, 2005. Its topmost floors render it an easily recognizable landmark on the New York skyline; they are modeled after [Mansart](/source/Jules_Hardouin-Mansart)'s [Royal Chapel at Versailles](/source/Chapels_of_Versailles), a system of Corinthian pilasters and arch-headed windows, with octagonal ends, under a tall, slanted, copper roof that is pierced with bronze-finished bull's-eye [dormer](/source/dormer)s. New York society turned out to attend the gala dinner that marked the opening of The Pierre; it was prepared by [Auguste Escoffier](/source/Auguste_Escoffier), "the father of French chefs", who served as a guest chef at The Pierre in its early years. As markets continued to collapse during the [Great Depression](/source/Great_Depression), The Pierre went into bankruptcy in 1932. The oilman, [J. Paul Getty](/source/J._Paul_Getty), bought it for $2.35 million in 1938 (approximately ${{Inflation|US-GDP|2.35|1938|r=1}} million in {{Inflation-year|US-GDP}}).{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/06/06/archives/j-paul-getty-dead-at-83-amassed-billions-from-oil-he-controlled.html|newspaper=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)|date=6 June 1976|title=J. Paul Getty Dead at 83: Amassed Billions From Oil|page=1|last=Whitnen|first=Alden|access-date=8 March 2024}} ===Mid- and late 20th century=== Beginning in 1948, New York City's ABC television and FM radio station (then called WJZ-TV Channel 7 and WJZ-FM 95.5, now WABC-TV and WPLJ) broadcast from a tower atop The Pierre, until moving to the Empire State Building a few years later.{{Cite journal|date=October 1949|title=Television At A Glance|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Televiser/Televiser-1949-10.pdf|journal=Televisor|volume= 6| issue =7|page=6}} In 1959, 75 apartments were sold to a cooperative of private residents, while Getty retained control of the hotel's services and guest rooms. Among the permanent residents at The Pierre have been [Elizabeth Taylor](/source/Elizabeth_Taylor), [Aristotle Onassis](/source/Aristotle_Onassis), Viacom entertainment-company chairman [Sumner Redstone](/source/Sumner_Redstone), [Mohamed al-Fayed](/source/Mohamed_al-Fayed), then the owner of [Harrods](/source/Harrods), and the late designer [Yves Saint-Laurent](/source/Yves_Saint-Laurent_(designer)). Thirteen of the apartments have since become "grand suites". In 1967 and 1968, [Edward Melcarth](/source/Edward_Melcarth) painted a [trompe l'oeil](/source/Trompe-l'%C5%93il) mural in the rotunda of the hotel.{{Cite web |title=Historic NYC Hotels {{!}} History {{!}} The Pierre NY |url=https://www.thepierreny.com/our-story/history |access-date=2024-03-02 |website=The Pierre, a Taj Hotel, New York |language=en}} The mural included mythological characters prominent members of New York's elite like [Jacqueline Kennedy](/source/Jacqueline_Kennedy_Onassis) and [Erik Estrada](/source/Erik_Estrada). After criticism, the hotel painted over the telltale facial details and gave the figures a more generic look.{{Cite news |last=Margolies |first=Jane |date=2016-07-21 |title=At New York's Pierre, Restoring the Romantic Rotunda Room |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/travel/at-new-yorks-pierre-restoring-the-romantic-rotunda-room.html |access-date=2024-03-02 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} President-elect [Richard M. Nixon](/source/Richard_M._Nixon) stayed at The Pierre for several months in 1968-69 before moving to Washington, D.C.{{cite news|last1=Stiehm|first1=Jamie|title='The Professor and the President'|url=https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/jamie-stiehm/2015/02/03/nixons-relationship-with-daniel-patrick-moynihan-was-mutually-beneficial|access-date=May 1, 2017|work=[U.S. News & World Report](/source/U.S._News_%26_World_Report)|date=February 3, 2015}} The Pierre was the scene of the [Pierre Hotel robbery](/source/Pierre_Hotel_robbery) in 1972, organized by the [Lucchese crime family](/source/Lucchese_crime_family). This robbery of $27 million would later be listed in the ''[Guinness Book of World Records](/source/Guinness_Book_of_World_Records)'' as the largest, most successful hotel robbery in history.{{cite news|url=https://nypost.com/2016/04/10/last-living-crew-member-opens-up-about-infamous-hotel-heist/|title=Mobster in witness protection details world's greatest heist|first=Bill|last=Sanderson|date=April 10, 2016|newspaper=[New York Post](/source/New_York_Post)|access-date=May 1, 2017}} The Pierre came under the management of [Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts](/source/Four_Seasons_Hotels_and_Resorts) in 1981.https://fifthavenue.nyc/the-pierre-hotel ===21st century=== In 2005, the hotel's 75th anniversary, [Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces](/source/Taj_Hotels_Resorts_and_Palaces), a global chain of fine luxury hotels and resorts, succeeded Four Seasons as the new lessee and operator. In 2010, Taj completed a $100 million top to bottom renovation of the hotel. Taj Hotels is part of India's [Tata Group](/source/Tata_Group).{{cite book |last1=Eisenberg |first1=Paul |first2=Erica |last2=Duecy |first3=Jennifer |last3=Paull |title=Fodor's 2008 New York City |location=New York |publisher=Fodor's Travel Publications |year=2008}} In 2016, the hotel restored the murals, the decorative plaster ceiling, marble stairs and stone walls. They also added LED strip-lighting runs the perimeter of the floor, shedding up-light onto the murals.{{Cite web |last=AFineLyne |date=2016-07-25 |title=Inside The Pierre Hotel's Recently Restored, Stunning Rotunda Room in NYC |url=https://untappedcities.com/2016/07/25/the-pierre-hotel-nyc-recently-restored-rotunda-room/ |access-date=2024-03-02 |website=Untapped New York |language=en-US}} The hotel contains 189 guest accommodations, including 49 suites, of which 11 are grand suites. Dining options in the hotel include Perrine restaurant, The Rotunda and Two E Lounge. In December 2024, the Pierre was placed for sale.{{cite web | last=Wong | first=Natalie | title=NYC's Five-Star Pierre Hotel Near Central Park Is on the Market | website=Bloomberg.com | date=December 9, 2024 | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-09/nyc-s-five-star-pierre-hotel-near-central-park-is-on-the-market | access-date=December 10, 2024}} [Hassanal Bolkiah](/source/Hassanal_Bolkiah), the Sultan of Brunei, expressed interest in buying the hotel.{{cite web |date=June 11, 2025 |title=Sultan of Brunei eyes Pierre Hotel purchase |url=https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2025/06/11/sultan-of-brunei-eyes-pierre-hotel-acquisition/ |access-date=September 22, 2025 |website=The Real Deal}}{{cite web |last=Dabo |first=Mohamed |date=June 12, 2025 |title=Sultan of Brunei eyes NYC’s Pierre Hotel |url=https://www.hotelmanagement-network.com/news/sultan-of-brunei-eyes-nycs-pierre-hotel/ |access-date=September 22, 2025 |website=Hotel Management Network}} Many residents of the hotel opposed the sale, since they could be evicted if the building were sold. Some of these opponents accused the hotel's largest shareholder—U.S. Commerce Secretary [Howard Lutnick](/source/Howard_Lutnick), who owned the penthouse—of being involved in the idea to sell the building.{{cite web |last1=Rothfeld |first1=Michael |last2=Farrell |first2=Maureen |last3=Kantor |first3=Jodi |date=September 16, 2025 |title=Howard Lutnick, the Pierre Hotel and Claims of a Secret Plan |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/business/lutnick-pierre-hotel.html |access-date=September 22, 2025 |website=The New York Times}}{{cite web |date=September 17, 2025 |title=Residents at the Pierre revolt against Howard Lutnick over $2B sale plan |url=https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2025/09/17/pierre-residents-revolt-against-lutnick-over-2b-sale-plan/ |access-date=September 22, 2025 |website=The Real Deal}} ==Triplex== A 16-room triplex co-op that occupies the top three floors was placed on the market in 2003, with a price tag of $70 million.{{cite web|last=Schoeneman|first=Deborah|date=November 1, 2004|url=http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/realestate/columns/realestate/10152/|title=New York's Most Expensive Apartment - Harvey Weinstein's Latest Deal - Does Renovating Payoff?|work=NYMag.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041204084218/http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/realestate/columns/realestate/10152/|archive-date=December 4, 2004}} This {{convert|11000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} apartment features five bedrooms, four terraces, a paneled library, a wine cellar, a black Belgian-marble staircase and the hotel's former ballroom with {{convert|23|ft|m|adj=on}} high ceilings. It was originally purchased by the hedge-fund manager [Martin Zweig](/source/Martin_Zweig), from publishing heiress [Mary Fairfax](/source/Mary_Fairfax), in 1999 for $21.5 million. With its $70 million price tag payable in full at purchase, the co-op was listed in 2006 in ''[Forbes](/source/Forbes)'' magazine as the eighth-most expensive home in the world,{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/realestate/2006/07/24/priciest-homes-world_cx_sc_0724feat_ls.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060814024401/http://www.forbes.com/realestate/2006/07/24/priciest-homes-world_cx_sc_0724feat_ls.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 14, 2006|title=Most Expensive Homes In The World 2006|author=Sara Clemence|date=July 25, 2006|work=Forbes}} fourth-most expensive home in the United States,{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/2006/06/23/cx_0626homeland.html|title=Most Expensive Homes In The U.S. 2006|author=Sara Clemence and Lacey Rose|date=June 26, 2006|work=Forbes}} and second-most expensive home in the Northeastern United States in 2006.{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/home/realestate/2006/06/02/expensive-homes-northeast_cx_sc_0605home.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060615034423/http://www.forbes.com/home/realestate/2006/06/02/expensive-homes-northeast_cx_sc_0605home.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 15, 2006|title=Most Expensive Homes in the U.S. 2006: Northeast|author=Sara Clemence|date=June 2, 2006|work=Forbes}} It was again put on the market in 2013 at the asking price of $125 million.{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/morganbrennan/2013/03/28/new-yorks-pierre-penthouse-expected-to-hit-sale-block-with-125-million-price-tag/|title=New York's Pierre Penthouse Hits Sale Block With $125 Million Price Tag|author=Morgan Brennan|date=March 28, 2013|work=Forbes}} The board of directors turned down two would-be buyers.{{cite web|url=http://www.domain.com.au/Public/Article.aspx?id=1167777252171&index=NationalIndex&headline=$90m%20cash%20for%20New%20York%20%27sky%20chateau|title=Real Estate - Properties for Sale, Rent and Share - Domain|work=domain.com.au}} {{dead link|date=March 2023}} The penthouse returned to the market in March 2013 for an asking price of $125 million.{{cite web|date=March 30, 2013|url=http://www.manhattanscout.com/blog/pierre-penthouse-hits-market-125m|title=Pierre Penthouse Hits Market for $125M|work=manhattanscout.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130331200913/http://www.manhattanscout.com/blog/pierre-penthouse-hits-market-125m|archive-date=March 31, 2013}} The price was adjusted to $95 million later that year.{{cite web|last=Sywak|first=Ellie|date=April 14, 2014|url=http://www.aspiremetro.com/historic-pierre-hotels-triplex-penthouse-available-for-95m/|title=Historic Pierre Hotel's Triplex Penthouse Available for $95M|work=aspiremetro.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502121816/http://www.aspiremetro.com/historic-pierre-hotels-triplex-penthouse-available-for-95m/|archive-date=May 2, 2014}} The triplex, which was refurbished, had its price adjusted down to $57 million in 2016.{{cite news|last1=Taylor|first1=Candace|title=Revamped Pierre Hotel Penthouse Returns to Market at $57 Million|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/revamped-pierre-hotel-penthouse-returns-to-market-at-57-million-1461250047|access-date=May 1, 2017|work=Wall Street Journal|date=April 21, 2016}}{{cite web|title=Luxury Residential Real Estate: 795 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, NYC - $57,000,000|url=http://www.bhsusa.com/manhattan/upper-east-side/795-fifth-avenue/coop/12025971|publisher=Brown Harris Stevens|access-date=May 1, 2017}} The triplex was sold to Lutnick for $44 million in 2017.{{cite news |url=https://ny.curbed.com/2017/8/1/16078216/pierre-hotel-penthouse-nyc-sold |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223005932/https://ny.curbed.com/2017/8/1/16078216/pierre-hotel-penthouse-nyc-sold |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 23, 2017 |title=NYC's Pierre Hotel penthouse finally sells for $44M, a 65% discount |date=August 3, 2017 |first=Zoe |last=Rosenberg |newspaper=Curbed New York |access-date=December 16, 2019 }} ==In popular culture== [[File:Pierre Hotel from Central Park South.jpg|thumb|upright|The Pierre rises over [Central Park](/source/Central_Park)]] The Pierre has frequently appeared as a setting in novels, films and in television series. * 1956: In the novel ''Seize the Day'' by Saul Bellow, Dr. Tamkin says he knows a man at the Pierre who orders a case of champagne every day with lunch, by way of illustrating for Tommy the potential income to be obtained from day-trading commodities. * 1956: In her novel ''[Chocolates for Breakfast](/source/Chocolates_for_Breakfast)'', Pamela Moore has the character Anthony Neville living out of a luxury suite at The Pierre, where Courtney and Janet often visit him. * 1979: The Pierre was referenced in the episode "[The Party](/source/The_Party_(M*A*S*H))" of the TV show ''[M*A*S*H](/source/M*A*S*H_(TV_series))'', in which the relatives of the main characters get together at the hotel. * 1990: The driver Marshall, played by [Ossie Davis](/source/Ossie_Davis), recommends The Pierre over Plaza Hotel to Joe, played by [Tom Hanks](/source/Tom_Hanks), in the film ''[Joe Versus the Volcano](/source/Joe_Versus_the_Volcano)''. * 1992: The tango scene with Al Pacino in the film ''[Scent of a Woman](/source/Scent_of_a_Woman_(1992_film))'' was shot in The Pierre's Cotillion Ballroom.{{cite web|last=Heiderstadt|first=Donna|date=February 21, 2013|url=http://www.fodors.com/news/oscar-nominated-hotels-6468.html|title=10 Famous Oscar-Nominated Hotels|work=fodors.com|access-date=June 27, 2014|archive-date=October 2, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002172638/http://www.fodors.com/news/oscar-nominated-hotels-6468.html|url-status=dead}} * 1993: The Pierre was the main filming setting for the film ''[For the Love of Money](/source/For_Love_or_Money_(1993_film))'' starring [Michael J. Fox](/source/Michael_J._Fox) as the concierge for the fictional Bradbury Hotel. * 1996: The Pierre again stood in as The Bradbury Hotel for a brief scene in ''[The Associate](/source/The_Associate_(1996_film))'' starring [Whoopi Goldberg](/source/Whoopi_Goldberg) as an investment adviser. * 1998: The Pierre's penthouse is the home of [Anthony Hopkins](/source/Anthony_Hopkins)' character, William Parrish, in the film ''[Meet Joe Black](/source/Meet_Joe_Black)''. * 2004: In ''[The Sopranos](/source/The_Sopranos)'' episode "[In Camelot](/source/In_Camelot)", [Fran Felstein](/source/Fran_Felstein) tells [Tony Soprano](/source/Tony_Soprano) about President [John F. Kennedy](/source/John_F._Kennedy)'s invitation to a rendezvous at The Pierre, and how a steel workers strike aborted those plans. * 2007–2015: The Pierre has appeared or been mentioned in several episodes of ''[Mad Men](/source/Mad_Men)'', and briefly housed the newly formed "Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce" in room 435. * 2009: In the film ''[Grey Gardens](/source/Grey_Gardens_(2009_film))'', [Edith Bouvier "Little Edie" Beale](/source/Edith_Bouvier_Beale) has her [débutante](/source/Debutante) ball on New Year's Day, 1936 at The Pierre, a true story. * 2009–2010: The Pierre appears several times in episodes of ''[CSI:NY](/source/CSI%3ANY)'' (Season 6, Episode 10: "Death House"; Season 7, Episode 2: "Unfriendly Chat"). * 2010: In ''[Real Housewives of New York City](/source/Real_Housewives_of_New_York_City)'', cast member Ramona Singer had her commitment ceremony at The Pierre. * 2011: Aerial shots of The Pierre's penthouse exteriors were used as Arthur Bach's apartment in the film ''[Arthur](/source/Arthur_(2011_film))''. * 2015: The Pierre provided the backdrop for the awards ceremony scene in the film ''[Trainwreck](/source/Trainwreck_(film))'', in which the characters of [Amy Schumer](/source/Amy_Schumer) and [Bill Hader](/source/Bill_Hader) argue. * 2017: The book ''The Pierre Hotel Affair'' by [Daniel Simone](/source/Daniel_Simone) is about the 1972 robbery that took place at The Pierre. * 2018: In the film ''[Ocean's 8](/source/Ocean's_8)'', [Anne Hathaway](/source/Anne_Hathaway) gets ready in The Pierre's Presidential Suite for the [Met Gala](/source/Met_Gala), and goes on a date in the hotel's Rotunda. ==See also== *{{Portal-inline|New York City}} ==Explanatory notes== {{notelist}} ==References== '''Notes''' {{Reflist}} '''Bibliography''' *{{cite book |last=Simon |first=Kate |title=Fifth Avenue: A Very Social History |url=https://archive.org/details/fifthavenueverys0001simo |url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |year=1978 |isbn=0151307024 }} '''Further reading''' *{{cite book |author-link=Ira Berkow |last=Berkow |first=Ira |title=The Man Who Robbed The Pierre: The Story of Bobby Comfort and the Biggest Hotel Robbery Ever |location=New York |publisher=Atheneum |year=1987 |isbn=0689119186 |url=https://archive.org/details/manwhorobbedpi00berk }} *{{cite book |last1=Hoffman |first1=William |last2=Headley |first2=Lake |title=Contract Killer: The Explosive Story of the Mafia's Most Notorious Hit Man Donald "Tony the Greek" Frankos |location=New York |publisher=Thunder's Mouth Press |year=1992 |isbn=1560250453 |url=https://archive.org/details/contractkillerex00hoff_0 }} *{{cite book |author-link=Nicholas Pileggi |last=Pileggi |first=Nicholas |title=Wiseguy: Life In A Mafia Family |location=New York |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=1985 |isbn=0671447343 |url=https://archive.org/details/wiseguy00nich_aso }} ==External links== {{commons category}} * {{Official website|http://www.thepierreny.com/}} * [http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3694 Wired New York Forum] * [http://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/manhattan/the-pierre-795-fifth-avenue/3617 The Pierre: 795 Fifth Ave.] Detailed building information, building ratings and area maps * [https://www.forbes.com/sites/garywalther/2015/05/08/manhattan-billionaire-hotels-the-pierres-timeless-grand-suites/ Manhattan Billionaire Hotels: The Pierre's Timeless Grand Suites] - Forbes, May 8, 2015 {{Fifth Avenue}} {{Hotels in New York City|state=collapsed}} {{Tata Group}} {{Upper East Side|state=collapsed}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Pierre}} Category:Fifth Avenue Category:Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces Category:The Leading Hotels of the World Category:Hotels established in 1930 Category:Hotel buildings completed in 1930 Category:Skyscraper hotels in Manhattan Category:Upper East Side Category:1930 establishments in New York City Category:1930s architecture in the United States Category:Indian Hotels Company Limited --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [The Pierre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pierre) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pierre?action=history)). 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