Plaza Hotel Celebrates 100 Years With Stars, Fireworks
A hundred years after it first entered into the city's lore, and nearly three years after it was closed for renovations, the owners of the Plaza Hotel are planning a celebration at the building, which overlooks Central Park.
Monday's plans include fireworks by Grucci, a live performance of a reworked "My Way'' by composer Paul Anka, and a 12-foot edible cake replica of the Plaza Hotel. Actor Matthew Broderick has been invited to host the festivities.
The Plaza closed in April 2005 to undergo a $350 million renovation and restoration after Isaac Tshuva's company, Elad Properties, purchased it for $675 million.
The company is close to completing a top-to-bottom renovation that will transform part of the building into fabulously expensive luxury condominiums.
The Plaza, a National Historic Landmark, was designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh to replicate the grandeur of a French Renaissance-style Chateau.
