An absence rises from the Manhattan pavement, a Seventh Avenue nothingness soaring 22 stories into the Midtown sky. There is vacancy now where the Hotel Pennsylvania once stood...
The Hotel Pennsylvania opened in 1919 as the world's largest hotel, with 2,000 guest rooms and a town of shops and amenities within its brown-brick walls. Radio broadcasts of swinging Big Band music performed at the hotel proved a stroke of marketing genius...
But if you know where to look say, in a certain Hell's Kitchen shop window you might see a dazzling hint of what once filled that absence. The Hotel Pennsylvania opened in 1919 as the world's largest hotel, with 2,000 guest rooms and a town of shops and amenities within its brown-brick walls...
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