[HN Gopher] Once the world's largest, the Pennsylvania Hotel goe...
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Once the world's largest, the Pennsylvania Hotel goes 'poof' before
our eyes
Author : benbreen
Score : 20 points
Date : 2023-12-30 04:09 UTC (1 days ago)
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| WarOnPrivacy wrote:
| _Among the odder moments came when a government bacteriologist
| named Frank Olson plunged to his death from the 10th floor in
| 1953._
|
| _It was later revealed that he had been slipped LSD as part of
| an illegal mind-control program overseen by the C.I.A. Seventy
| years later, the circumstances remain murky._
|
| I live in the most [ADJECTIVE] country anywhere.
| tobinfricke wrote:
| Subject of a mini-series dramatization by Errol Morris
|
| https://youtu.be/b01DL8DTUGM?si=3-vGNv4xjGFtuNIo
| mc32 wrote:
| IIRC Ted Kazinsky was part of a similar or same program -mind
| control ultra.
| semiquaver wrote:
| https://archive.ph/Cx6WM
| notthemessiah wrote:
| I know this place as the namesake and longtime hosting location
| of the HOPE Conference. I will forever remember it.
| alienasa wrote:
| I stayed here in approximately 2010, because it was the cheapest
| hotel near Madison Square Garden, and I will forever remember it
| as the filthiest hotel I've ever been in. I slept fully clothed
| on top of the bed with my coat for a blanket.
| glitchcrab wrote:
| I also stayed there around the same time; my overriding memory
| is how grimy the bathroom was. It looked like it had never had
| a proper clean since it was first decorated.
| gnatman wrote:
| I too stayed there in 2010 to be close to MSG. My friends and I
| knew it was a shithole, and were sending each other terrible
| TripAdvisor reviews for laughs. Buried a dozen pages in, one
| review offered instructions for getting up on the roof- go to a
| certain floor, go into a certain housekeeping door, and take
| the stairs in the back. We followed the instructions and found
| an incredible and private view of the city. Fun night!
| toast0 wrote:
| Living on SEO from their history... PEnnsylvania 6-5000
| shon wrote:
| Yep, I stayed there in 2000 to attend HOPE 2000. Traveled with
| Sir Dystic, Lumi and some other cDc kids. Parties were fun. cDc
| put on a great show.
| sp332 wrote:
| Here's a two-hour session of HOPE attendees telling stories
| about crazy things that happened there.
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Tofimmga8
| anigbrowl wrote:
| People are always fretting over the low availability and high
| cost of housing, yet here's a building with 2200 rooms and all
| the infrastructure needed to service them. It's all so tiresome.
| MomoXenosaga wrote:
| Oh yeah I remember COVID. After a few months they were begging
| the tourists to come back.
|
| NYC is fashionable and expensive because of the annoying
| Chinese selfie stick family and Arab sheikh motorcade.
| creaghpatr wrote:
| RIP. I stayed here the first time I visited NYC, mainly on
| account of the location and price. It felt enormous and check-in
| was pretty chaotic given the amount of people checking in but it
| felt like an authentic intro to the city.
|
| That said, it was pretty grimy. Don't blame them for tearing it
| down, it's way too big to preserve as some kind of historical
| boutique hotel.
| joshu wrote:
| This hotel was incredibly convenient due to its proximity to Penn
| station, and incredibly cheap relative to other hotels, and
| incredibly disgusting due to its upkeep.
| cypherpunks01 wrote:
| Did anyone else ever explore the huge multi-level basements of
| the hotel? In the final sub-basement, I remember there was a
| passageway that connected into one of the subway tunnels way down
| there.
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