Anantara New York Palace Budapest Hotel, Palace hotel on Grand Boulevard, Budapest, Hungary
The Anantara New York Palace Budapest Hotel occupies a four-storey historicist building at Erzsébet körút 9–11, designed by Alajos Hauszmann with Flóris Korb and Kálmán Giergl and opened in 1894. Its facade mixes neo-baroque ornament with statues and reliefs by Károly Senyei. The ground-floor New York Café retains its neo-baroque interior, while the upper floors hold 185 rooms and suites.
The New York Life Insurance Company opened its local office here on October 23, 1894, in a building designed by Alajos Hauszmann with Flóris Korb and Kálmán Giergl. Nationalized under communism, it was sold to Italy's Boscolo Hotels in February 2001 for US$8 million and reopened on May 5, 2006 as a 107-room luxury hotel. It was renamed Anantara New York Palace Budapest Hotel on November 24, 2021.
The New York Café on the ground floor serves as a gathering place for people interested in literature, continuing a tradition that stretches back to its founding. Visitors can see writers and readers meeting there over coffee and conversation.
The hotel stands at Erzsébet körút 9–11, on the Grand Boulevard in District VII, with the New York Café on the ground floor. The Blaha Lujza tér metro stop on line M2 is a short walk away, and trams run along the boulevard. The café is open to non-guests, but queues form, so arrive early in the day.
The café's sixteen devilish fauns were carved by Károly Senyei, who also made the statues and ornaments on the building's facade. In 1957, sculptors Sándor Boldogfai Farkas, Ödön Metky and János Sóváry carved replicas of the damaged allegorical sculptures of Thrift and Wealth, America and Hungary inside the café.
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