Hotel Bretton Hall

11/30/2021

1899 view of Amsterdam Avenue at 86th Street before Bretton Hall.

02/24/2019

https://www.westsiderag.com/2019/02/21/throwback-thursday-learn-some-history-before-the-wrecking-ball-swings

I had almost forgotten about Bridies!

The southeast corner of Broadway and 85th Street is being readied for demolition, the latest two-story building on the avenue to face the wrecking ball. Michael Tempel took the photo below in December 2018 after the bank and Price Wise Discount vacated. Workers are now doing asbestos abatement that....

11/11/2018

Get ready for some new neighbors!

Rich Manhattanites who want to stay in the city as they grow older will soon have the option of a luxury assisted-living tower on the Upper West Side.

12/24/2015

Happy Holidays!

10/31/2015

Happy Halloween from the ghosts of Bretton Hall!

05/14/2015

What is so fair as a day in May with the dogwood in bloom?

05/13/2015

Happy Spring!

10/06/2012

And then there was the day when the FBI swooped down on Bretton Hall to take Emad Salem into protective custody after he was revealed as the informer who had infiltrated the plot to bomb the WTC the first time. I was away on vacation that day and missed all the excitement but I hear it was quite an event. Anyone remember more?

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/31/nyregion/bomb-informer-s-tapes-give-rare-glimpse-of-fbi-dealings.html

It is shortly after a bomb has blown a hole five stories deep at the World Trade Center and an F.B.I. agent is talking to Emad A. Salem, the former Egyptian army officer who is the bureau's secret

10/05/2012

Who could forget the infamous George Cobo, who lived a couple doors down from me for a few years. More on that later. Here's a link to the article about the "Prince Teddy murders" that he and his partner did, as well as murdering 2 other people before getting caught.
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/21/nyregion/2-men-linked-to-strangling-on-park-ave.html

New York City police detectives have flown to Reno to question two men they believe were responsible for the killings last April of an Indian prince and his wife in their Park Avenue apartment, the

07/17/2012