00:00Oh
00:30I'll be struck again.
00:34You can see that in Dallas.
00:36Yeah.
00:38I can.
00:39Yeah.
00:47The country is ready.
00:48Yes.
00:49Yeah.
00:50Ha ha.
00:51Yeah.
00:51Yeah.
00:52Yeah.
00:53Yeah.
00:54It's all along the distance.
00:59it finally happened right eight years in the making but it's been such a great success story
01:11because everybody was waiting for it but we had to do it absolutely right you know you have to
01:17think about it hasn't been just a renovation it's been a complete restoration you know from
01:21from the ground up you know we worked on all the legacy ceilings and all the artwork all the
01:28architectural detail it requires so many craft people to come in it was just an incredible
01:33undertake but now we're left with a really gorgeous hotel and residence everything was
01:39transformed you know two years just to demolish the hotel you know internally because we went
01:44from being 1,400 guest rooms into being only 375 guest rooms so our rooms doubled up and even
01:51the suites so we have some of the largest accommodations in New York City and then of
01:56course we build also 372 residences so this is the very first time you can actually own a piece
02:02of the world of Astoria in New York before it never happened before so it's very very exciting times
02:05they call it the greatest of them all for a reason it's because you know some hotels you know they
02:11just speak speak to you and this hotel is an incredible soul imagine through over a century of
02:18tradition and all of that so in essence you walk in you feel the energy already when you first walk in
02:24and then now it's a hotel that is moving forward there is a writing a new chapter in the future so
02:29even though you feel the nostalgia when you come in when you admire all the details then you have
02:35this element of surprise as you discover all these areas and of course the clock is there the piano is
02:41there from Cole Porter but then you see all these beautiful new areas you go my goodness this is a
02:46really special a greatest of them all hotel
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