New York Biltmore Hotel
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The New York Biltmore Hotel was a luxury hotel in New York City founded by John McEntee Bowman. The hotel was designed by the architectural firm of Warren and Wetmore (who also designed the adjoining Grand Central Terminal) and had a red granite skin. It was one of three hotels built as part of the Terminal City development. The others were the Commodore Hotel, now the Grand Hyatt New York, and the Roosevelt Hotel, still in operation.
In 1942, the hotel was the location of the Biltmore Conference which was a meeting of mostly Zionist groups that produced the Biltmore Program, a series of demands regarding Palestine.
The building was gutted in the early 1980's by owner Donald Trump, and a new office building was built from the hotel's steel skeleton. The Bank of America Plaza Building at 335 Madison Avenue retains the hotel's famous lobby clock, one of many which claim to be the basis for the expression "Meet me under the clock".
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