[3] In 1950, the hotel was completely redecorated and redesigned, and, from the following year on, it housed the Café de la Paix, said to be the first sidewalk restaurant in New York City.

[6] However, before any work on the Trump project began, the hotel was sold again just over a week later on April 29, 1998, to hotelier Ian Schrager for $185 million.

[7][8] The structure was then completely remodeled as The Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park,[9] with the lower portion remaining a hotel and the top twelve floors converted to eleven enormous condominiums.

In his review from 1931, W. Parker Chase described the hotel as "a picturesque cliff, amidst towering trees to the north, and other soaring skyscrapers to the south.

On a wall in the lobby, which was of Levanto marble, hung a large painting of the city of St. Moritz by Giovanni Giacometti, a gift to the hotel from the Swiss Alps resort for which it was named.

Hoflieferant), offering lunch and dinners in the tea room, grill and roof garden, where the St. Moritz orchestra entertained with both classic and syncopated music.

[2][13][14] Comedian Carol Burnett describes in her book This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection how in the summer of 1959 she spotted Marlene Dietrich at Rumpelmayer's.

[16] Liza Minnelli references Rumplemayers in her song “Exactly Like Me”, written by Kander & Ebb on her live album during her Tony Award winning concert run at the Winter Garden in 1974.

Unhinged magician Corky Withers, played by Anthony Hopkins, stays in the hotel during the first act of Richard Attenborough's Magic (1978).