Paula Froelich: Another (Landmark) Bites The Dust

paulafroelich:

The Algonquin Hotel is shutting down the legendary Oak Room:

As of May, however, when the hotel reopens after a re-do, the room’s cabaret singing will be silenced.

It will now be a private breakfast nook for their “Marriott Rewards Elite” customers. Sigh. Art Samuels, Charlie MacArthur, Harpo Marx, Dorothy Parker and Alexander Woollcott were the original members of the Algonquin Round Table who met for lunch daily at the hotel for a decade.

Michael Musto, Andrew WK and I did a roundtable there as well for the 90th anniversary of said round table. Double Sigh.

I’ve never been a “Marriott Rewards Elite” customer but I just know I’d be darling at it.

Source: paulafroelich