Yet by the 1970s, the once-lively Barbizon had lost its allure. Sylvia Plath threw all her clothes off the Barbizon’s roof on her last day as a magazine intern - an act she would later immortalize, along with the hotel, in her novel “The Bell Jar.” Judy Garland sent her daughter Liza Minnelli there, and then drove the front desk crazy when she called every three hours to check up on her. Grace Kelly shimmied down its hallways half-naked, and a pouty Rita Hayworth posed in its gym for a Life magazine shoot, wearing a two-piece playsuit and heels. Joan Crawford, Cloris Leachman, Ali MacGraw and Joan Didion all stayed there. The hotel was “where almost every unmarried woman who came to New York” resided, according to historian Paulina Bren’s delightful new book “ The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free” (Simon & Schuster). The first thing they did? Headed straight to Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street, maneuvered way past the men hanging around “like vultures” and booked a room at the Barbizon. So, in April 1936, for her 21st birthday, she and her best friend bought cheap overnight tickets from the Midwest to the Big Apple. Inside the ultra-exclusive French Riviera hotel where Sofia Richie got marriedĮvelyn Echols always dreamed of making her way to New York City. The best hotels in New York City, according to travel experts 16 of the most unique hotels in the world, according to travel experts - Spanish castles, bubble hotels and moreĬatch coronation fever in London’s affluent Mayfair ‘hood
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