Savoy Plaza Hotel: NYC
The grand Savoy Plaza Hotel opened during the roaring 1920s overlooking New York City’s famous Central Park. The Beaux Arts building was considered such an iconic emblem of the city’s jazz age heritage that when the hotel was sold to General Motors in the 1960s so the car company could demolish it and put up a building of its own, significant demonstrations sprung up.
Among the protestors’ lines of attack? A boycott of General Motors, led by some of New York’s wealthiest women, and a “Funeral Week” for the hotel led by architecture schools.
