Stay in one of 427 guestrooms featuring flat-screen televisions.
Satisfy your appetite with American cuisine at Empire Rooftop, a poolside bar/lounge which features a pool view.
Restaurants, Bars, Lounge & Dining options Self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite. Business, Other Amenitiesįeatured amenities include limo/town car service, a computer station, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Additional amenities at this Art Deco hotel include complimentary wireless Internet access and concierge services. Popular Hotel Amenities and FeaturesĮnjoy recreation amenities such as a seasonal outdoor pool or take in the view from a rooftop terrace. This 4-star hotel is 0.3 mi (0.4 km) from Central Park and 0.5 mi (0.7 km) from Columbus Circle. Ladd, 63, a librarian, though she added, “If I do catch a cold in the next week, I would probably go to my doctor.With a stay at Empire Hotel, you'll be centrally located in New York, steps from Lincoln Center and Juilliard School. Streb, 64, who drove down from Fitchburg, Mass., did not tell his wife, Marcia Ladd, about the outbreak until they were parked at the curb in front of the hotel. Still, he was not bothered enough to change hotels.ĭavid Streb, whose twin brother contracted Legionnaires’ disease nearly two decades ago from a campground, said he felt confident the hotel was now safe. If he had, he said, he would have picked another hotel. Outside the hotel on Wednesday afternoon, Gert van Stralen, 44, from Holland, said he did not know about the outbreak when he booked a room online three weeks ago. Loftin, who walks by the hotel nearly every day, said he has not seen anyone cross the street to get away from the hotel, nor any thinning of the crowds on the bustling commercial strip in front. Loftin, the district manager for Bronx Community Board 1, which covers the area where the hotel is, said he has not heard any complaints or concerns about the hotel since the outbreak. He asked them to send documentation that they had been affected by the disease, and has not heard from them again.Ĭedric L. Vargas said that three people who stayed at the hotel in July also called to demand a refund after learning about the outbreak from the news. That hotel, then known as the Bellevue Stratford, a convention hotel and cultural landmark whose ballroom had hosted thousands of debutantes, closed its doors four months later. Noble and several victims said.īut for the most part, the Opera House Hotel seems to have escaped the notoriety and stigma that kept guests away from the Philadelphia hotel that was the site of the first outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in July 1976. Last week, Leslie Noble, a security guard who lives near the hotel, filed the first lawsuit against the hotel and its owner, the Empire Hotel Group, in the Bronx, accusing them of “negligence, carelessness and recklessness.” Others are expected to follow, a lawyer who represents Mr. The outbreak in the South Bronx has prompted a host of new measures to tighten oversight of cooling towers, boxy structures that sit atop roofs and regulate cold and hot air in buildings. Legionnaires’ disease, often described as a severe form of pneumonia, is contracted by inhaling contaminated mist from water sources harboring Legionella bacteria. City health officials identified the hotel’s cooling tower as the source of the outbreak. The Opera House Hotel on East 149th Street remained open throughout the outbreak, which claimed 12 lives and sickened more than 120 people, including two hotel guests, before city health officials declared it officially over last week. Juliet Forde and Helen Smith, who were checking out Wednesday afternoon, said they had not heard one word about the outbreak during their four-night stay. An online reservation system showed the hotel was completely booked for this Saturday, and for four nights in September. Occupancy rates have hovered between 90 and 95 percent for the past two months, slightly higher than a year ago, the management said. Business has been, if anything, a little brisker. Not much else has changed at the hotel at the center of the worst outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in the city’s history.
Julio Vargas, the general manager, stationed himself downstairs in the wood-paneled lobby to explain to guests checking in that the cold air would return in a couple of hours. The Opera House Hotel had to turn off its air-conditioning one hot day this month so that a cleaning crew could scrub away the Legionella bacteria lurking in the cooling tower on its roof.
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