(Image via: NYCDreamin Archives)Abbey Victoria Hotel
7th Avenue at 51st Street, New York, NY 10019 (212) Circle 6-9400
1000 Modern Rooms and Suites
In Radio City and Rockafeller Center Area. Parking
Home of the famous Rosie O'Grady's Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge
New York Times - 06/27/82:
It was the Abbey Victoria Hotel, then the Abbey and Victoria Hotels and, later, back again. In recent years it was simply the ''Shabby Abbey.''
Now it is being demolished to make way for the expansion of the headquarters of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States.
Spokesmen for the company, a major owner of Manhattan properties, said plans for the new office tower were not complete yet. It will run from 51st to 52d Street on Seventh Avenue, behind the present 42-story headquarters building at 1285 Avenue of the Americas. That tower was completed 20 years ago as an pioneer project in the avenue's redevelopment.
The hotel was built in 1927 and was divided into the Abbey and Victoria Hotels for the World's Fair in 1939. It stood as a house divided for years, but merged in 1966 to share mechanical and operating costs.
