Carlyle Hotel

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The Carlyle Hotel is a AAA five diamond legendary luxury hotel and extended stay hotel in the Upper East Side of New York City, USA. The hotel, designed in Art Deco style, opened in 1931 and was named after Scottish essayist Thomas Carlyle. It is currently part of the Rosewood Hotels & Resorts group.

The hotel's Café Carlyle has featured a number of well-known jazz performers--notably Bobby Short, a fixture there from 1968 to 2004--and Woody Allen and his jazz band have been playing weekly at the café since 1996. In its Bemelmans Bar, the hotel features a mural entitled "Central Park," the only surviving publicly accessible artwork by Ludwig Bemelmans, the author of the Madeline children's books. Presidents Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter and Reagan stayed at the Carlyle regularly while in office.

The hotel is particularly identified with John F. Kennedy, who owned an apartment on the 34th floor for the ten years prior to his death. He stayed at the apartment in a well-publicized visit for a few days just prior to his inauguration in January 1961.