Bob Cox sent along This One on New York\’s Library Hotel. It\’s a 60-room boutique hotel on the corner of Madison Avenue and 41st Street, a block from Manhattan\’s Grand Central Terminal, just one block west of The New York Public Library. They say the idea of a library hotel originated with Henry Kallan, who owns several other New York properties, such as the Moroccan-themed Casablanca Hotel .
\”Granted, most libraries don\’t have a bellhop to greet you at the door. But then again, most hotels don\’t feature a lobby dominated by a monolithic monster of a card catalog and 10-foot-high mahogany bookshelves. Most hotels don\’t pay New York\’s renowned Strand Bookstore $85,000 for 6,000 books covering everything from Edgar Allan Poe to erotica. And there is probably no other hotel in the world where rooms are themed and numbered according to the Dewey Decimal System.\”
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