"The hotel — an masterpiece by on in — always had a residential component: It was home to everyone from Cole Porter, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra and the and to Presidents Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower. The building’s exterior was designated a landmark by the in 1993 and parts of its interior were designated by the same body in 2017. ... The hotel was sold for $1.95 billion in 2014 by , its previous owner, to , a Chinese company that closed the building in 2017 to restore and renew it, aiming to reopen it in four years. But the Chinese government seized control of Anbang in 2018, sending its chairman to prison for fraud, and created the Daija Insurance Group in 2019 to assume control over Anbang’s assets. Daija now owns the hotel and residences."
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Waldorf Astoria New York
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