The Carlyle Hotel is a luxury hotel located at 35 East 76th Street in the Upper East Side area of New York City. The hotel, designed in Art Deco style and named after Scottish essayist Thomas Carlyle, was built by Moses Ginsberg, maternal grandfather of Rona Jaffe. The hotel was opened in 1931, the year Jaffe was born. The Upper East Side at Sunset The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, USA, between Central Park and the East River. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Asheville City Hall. ... Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881) was a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, whose work was hugely influential during the Victorian era. ... Rona Jaffe (June 12, 1932 — December 30, 2005) was an American novelist. ... Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

A cooperative with 180 rental units and 60 privately-owned suites, it became a Manhattan trophy asset and one of the fifteen hotels owned by Rosewood Hotels & Resorts in 2001. The Carlyle was designed by architects Bien & Prince and originally opened as a residential hotel. Co-op redirects here. ... A suite in a hotel, mostly denotes a class of luxury rooms. ...

The hotel's Café Carlyle has featured a number of well-known jazz performers - notably George Feyer from 1955-1968, and Bobby Short from 1968-2004. Woody Allen and his jazz band have been playing weekly at the café since 1996. Other artists who have performed at the Cafe Carlyle include Elaine Stritch, Judy Collins, Barbara Cook, Eartha Kitt, John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey, Beverly Peer, and Ute Lemper. Steve Tyrell has been the featured performer in December through New Year's Eve for several years. For other uses, see Jazz (disambiguation). ... // George Feyer [b. ... Bobby Short (born September 15, 1924) is an American cabaret singer known for his interpretation of songs by early 20th century composers like Rodgers and Hart and Cole Porter. ... Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian and playwright. ... Elaine Stritch (born on February 2, 1925) is an Irish-American actress and singer. ... Judith Marjorie Collins (born May 1, 1939 in Seattle, Washington) is an American folk and standards singer and songwriter, known for the stunning purity of her soprano; for her eclectic tastes in the material she records (which has included folk, showtunes, pop, and rock and roll); and for her social... Barbara Cook (born October 25, 1927) is a Tony Award-winning American singer and actress who first came to prominence in the 1950s after creating roles in the Broadway musicals Candide and The Music Man, among others. ... Eartha Kitt (born Eartha Mae Keith on January 17, 1927),[1] is an American actress, singer, and cabaret star. ... John Paul Pizzarelli Jr. ... Jessica Molaskey is a singer of torch songs and show tunes who is a professional recording artist, also appearing in the Broadway show Dream True playing the part of Sarah Cody. ... Ute Lemper (born July 4, 1963) is a German chanteuse and actress. ... Steve Tyrell is an American jazz musician. ...

The Cafe Carlyle is noted for the murals by Marcel Vertes, which were cleaned in the summer of 2007 as part of a renovation that included raising the ceiling of the intimate space by two feet. In its Bemelmans Bar, the hotel features a mural entitled "Central Park", the only surviving publicly accessible artwork by Ludwig Bemelmans, the author of the Madeline children's books. Ludwig Bemelmans (April 27, 1898-October 1, 1962) was an American author and childrens book writer and illustrator. ... For other uses, see Madeleine (disambiguation). ...

The Carlyle Restaurant, formerly Dumonet at the Carlyle, is open seven days a week for three meals (including a Sunday brunch).

The hotel is particularly identified with President John F. Kennedy, who owned an apartment on the 34th floor for the ten years prior to his death. He stayed at the apartment in a well-publicized visit for a few days just prior to his inauguration in January 1961. Presidents Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan also stayed at the Carlyle while in office. John Kennedy and JFK redirect here. ... For other persons named Harry Truman, see Harry Truman (disambiguation). ... LBJ redirects here. ... Nixon redirects here. ... For other persons named Jimmy Carter, see Jimmy Carter (disambiguation). ... Reagan redirects here. ...

The hotel is also the source of the name for the Carlyle Group, as it was the location where that firm's founders first met in the mid-1980s. The Carlyle Group is a global private equity investment firm, based in Washington, D.C., with more than $81. ...

External links

• Carlyle Hotel official page