Same Streets

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The old Metropole

As it was then: much has changed since.

The old Metropole's building at 147 West 43rd Street, now the Casablanca Hotel.The old Metropole147 West 43rd Street
The old Metropole's building at 147 West 43rd Street, now the Casablanca Hotel.2023 · Transpoman / Wikimedia Commons

The hotel on West 43rd Street that Wolfsheim remembers over lunch. The gambler Herman Rosenthal was shot outside it in 1912, a real murder that the novel borrows.

“The old Metropole,” brooded Mr. Wolfshiem gloomily. “Filled with faces dead and gone. Filled with friends gone now forever. I can’t forget so long as I live the night they shot Rosy Rosenthal there.

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The building still stands, just off Times Square: it is the Casablanca Hotel now, and its lobby is open to guests. Subway: Times Sq–42 St.

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