Café Lafayette, New York 1907 Detroit Rumor has it that some

Rumor has it that some of the hotel rooms are haunted – guests claim to have seen the ghost of a nurse on the second floor and the ghost of a little girl on the ninth floor

year-round route that didn’t face the crippling snows of the Wasatch or Sierra mountain ranges to reach the Pacific coast

people came here throughout The Blitz to dance waltzes or the jitterbug and to forget about the rigors of rationing and blackouts

had a large Russian population

Café Lafayette, New York 1907 Detroit Rumor has it that someAt the end of the 19th century, the prime shopping district in New York was downtown and was known as the Ladies Mile. The area, encompassing roughly 28 blocks from 15th street to 24th street on Park Avenue South to Avenue of the Americas, was full of upscale department stores such as Tiffany & Co, Bergdorf Goodman, Lord & Taylor and B. Altman. There were fancy restaurants, booksellers, piano manufacturers and publishers. The first site of the