[1] For a period of time the building was in receivership; its demolition was prevented by support from a local historical society.

The hotel was later purchased at auction, and space was leased to not-for-profit Educational Housing Services in the mid-1990s.

The ground lease for the property was bought by investment firm Alliance Bernstein in 2016.

In the late 1960s, Minoru Yamasaki and a team of architects drafted the early plans for the World Trade Center in a suite at the George Washington.

From 1975 until his death in 1979 Al Hodge, who played Captain Video in the popular children's 1950s TV series, lived in an inexpensive rental unit in the hotel.