NEW YORK -- The 80-year-old Barbizon Hotel, located on Lexington Avenue at 63rd Street, is getting a new name to go along with its $40 million face-lift. The 306-room property, which opened in 1921 as ...

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, ...

An elderly castaway living in New York City's upscale Barbizon Hotel was strangled to death in her luxury suite - and her unsolved and chilling demise remains a mystery 50 years later. An elderly ...

When well-brought-up young women used to come to New York to live, many of them hopped in cabs and headed straight to 140 E. 63rd St. The building that occupied the corner of East 63rd and Lexington ...

The Barbizon Hotel for Women was built in 1927 as a residential hotel and clubhouse for single women who came to New York for professional opportunities. Designed by the prominent hotel architects ...

Discover the amenities available to women of a certain set eager to occupy the Barbizon’s rooms. Ponder why Sylvia Plath tossed her carefully curated wardrobe off the roof of the Barbizon. Experience ...

The Barbizon Hotel for Women, currently known as Barbizon 63, was known for giving women a safe (and chaste!) retreat right in the big, bad Big Apple (at 140 East 63rd Street, to be exact). The ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Barbizon Hotel for Women in Manhattan has been given landmark status. The New York City Landmarks Commission unanimously approved the decision on Tuesday. The 23-story, neo-Gothic ...

Billionaire jeweler Nicola Bulgari wants his luxury duplex right now, but the mean condo board says he has to wait. Bulgari is suing the Barbizon Hotel for “abuse” because he has to wait to combine ...