THE 700 tiny rooms at the old Barbizon Hotel for Women, the romantic neo-Gothic brick-and-sandstone tower on the bustling corner of Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street, were never much to write home ...

Our outing this month took us only forty-minutes from Gare de Lyon train station in the center of Paris. We took the train to Fontainebleau, where the famed Chateau de Fontainebleau, a royal palace ...

Regarding Heller McAlpin’s engaging review of the book “The Barbizon” by Paulina Bren (Books, Feb. 27): I stayed at the Barbizon as a 16-year-old during the summer of 1969. The plainness of the room ...

She sat by the window, watching the world rumble by as the train barreled toward New York City. In her purse was $60 from her father, a man of stiff Iowa breeding who worked at the family lumber ...

In a letter home to her mother, Plath described her “darlingest single” on the hotel’s fifteenth floor, with its “wall-to-wall rug, pale beige walls, dark green bedspread with rose-pattern ruffle, ...

During a seething summer evening in 1953, Lexington Avenue on the corner of 63rd Street received a sprinkling of clothing–an entire wardrobe really–thrown from the rooftop of the Barbizon Hotel. The ...

On the corner of East Sixty-third Street and Lexington Avenue, in a building where the apartments sell for anywhere from one million to thirteen million dollars, there is a woman who pays around a ...

Located at 63rd Street and Lexington Avenue, the Barbizon Hotel housed 720 single-occupancy rooms in its 20th-century heyday. It's now a condo building. NY Post composite Evelyn Echols always dreamed ...

YOUNG WOMEN with ambitions too big for their small towns have long set their sights on New York. For those who could afford it, their first port of call for much of the 20th century was the Barbizon, ...

Among the handful of iconic hotels closely entwined with New York’s cultural history, the Barbizon is perhaps less widely known than the Plaza, Algonquin or Waldorf Astoria. But as Paulina Bren’s ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Moira Donegan THE BARBIZON The Hotel That Set Women Free By Paulina Bren Grace Kelly lived there ...

Talk about location. On the bustling Prins Hendrikkade harborfront road, next door to the imposing 19th-century Basilica of Saint Nicholas, and a stone’s throw from Amsterdam’s Central Station, the NH ...