Preferred Citation: Groth, Paul. Living Downtown: The History of Residential Hotels in the United States. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1994 1994. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft6j49p0wf/


 

N

National Hotel, San Francisco, 4 , 100 –101, 5, 99 , 100 , 101 , 244

National Housing Act, 281

National Housing Association, 236 . See also Veiller, Lawrence

National Low Income Housing Coalition, 292 –293

Near North Side, Chicago, 113

New city, 17 , 304

area extent, 196 , 197

and central controls, 203 , 230 , 236

community and single-use as keys, 227 , 248 , 253 , 18

and conflicts with old city, 17 , 281 , 54, 228 , 266

and hotels, 168 , 198 , 231 , 233 , 278

investment underpinnings, 186 , 236 , 253

palace hotel as conversion, 53 –55

See also Old city

New Deal measures, 259 –260, 274 , 280 , 257

New York City, 212 , 215

cheap hotel life, 56 , 227 , 231 , 116, 122 , 132 , 170

expensive hotel life, 3 , 44 , 52 , 224

municipal and police lodgings, 136, 149 , 240

positive hotel reform, 235 , 286 , 294

New York districts. See Bowery; Chelsea; Gramercy Park; Greenwich Village; Harlem; Hell's Kitchen; Lower East Side;

New York hotels. See Algonquin Hotel; Allerton Houses; Astor House; Brevoort Hotel; Chelsea Hotel; Hotel Beresford; Hotel Majestic; Hotel Martinique; Hotel Pierre; Hotel Sutton; Majestic


396

New York hotels,

Hotel; Manhattan Hotel; McAlpin Hotel; Mills Hotel; Plaza Hotel; Ritz Tower; University Club; Waldorf-Astoria (new); Waldorf-Astoria (original)

Nob Hill, San Francisco

midpriced area (Lower Nob Hill), 75 –76, 80 , 75

palace hotel area (Upper Nob Hill), 47 –48, 81, 187

Nonbuilding, 276 –277

Non-materialist subculture, 162

Norfolk, Virginia, 281 , 142

Normal standard of living, 204 , 206

North Beach, San Francisco, 15 , 258 . See also Hotel Gianduja

Nuisance use, as legal strategy, 231 –232, 244 , 252


 

Preferred Citation: Groth, Paul. Living Downtown: The History of Residential Hotels in the United States. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1994 1994. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft6j49p0wf/