Hart Island (where the occupant was buried) has an interesting history:<p>"The remains of more than one million people are buried on Hart Island, though since the first decade of the 21st century, there are fewer than 1,500 burials a year. Burials on Hart Island include individuals who were not claimed by their families or did not have private funerals; the homeless and the indigent; and mass burials of disease victims."<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart_Island" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart_Island</a><p><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hart+Island/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hart+Island/</a>
The Hart Island public cemetery, at the end of the article, is a morbidly interesting tangent: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart_Island" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart_Island</a>
One of the less talked about aspects of rent stabilized apartments is how people become trapped in them.<p>I know people who have been living in rent stabilized apartments in NYC for decades who will never let them go, even though they no longer like the neighborhood or the unit.<p>Of course, it is hard to feel sorry for someone living in a $1,200/mo 1-bedroom in a nice area in Manhattan.
The hotel was effectively a rent controlled <i>apartment</i>.<p>This story becomes way less interesting, and way more common (NYC), once that info is understood.
One of my grand-uncles lived in the Park Plaza Hotel. He was a widower, a WWII vet, and loved the city. I was a kid at the time so assumed his lifestyle was closer to "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" and didn't know what an SRO was. I assumed he was able to afford it on his Army pension, LOL!
Having worked in consulting & travelled for 95% of the time, I would not wish living in a hotel on anyone. I think my friends thought my life was glamorous flying all the time & going to different places.<p>Nope.