Astor Hotel

ASTOR HOTEL. Broadway between 44th and 45th Streets. The Astor Hotel was the most celebrated hotel in Times Square and perhaps the most famous in all New York. The plot of land was originally part of the Medref-Eden farm . Around 1830 William B. Astor , Lord Astor’s grandfather, purchased the property for $34,000 from the bank that had foreclosed on the farm. Most people felt the investment was a bad one because the site was so far uptown. Lord William...