Celebrity-Owned Hotels ... The Greenwich Hotel, New York - This hotel is owned by none other than Robert De Niro himself and has a place in one of the best places to stay in New York. No two rooms are alike here and furnishings from different parts of the world lend a quiet elegance to the décor...
Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good.
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)
As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, a stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head.... The colored man alone is thrust out of the hotels of the national capital like a leper.... Surely nowhere in the world do oppression and persecution based solely on the color of the skin appear more hateful and hideous than in the capital of the United States, because the chasm between the principles upon which this Government was founded, in which it still professes to believe, and those which are daily practiced under the protection of the flag, yawn so wide and deep.
—Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954)
Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)