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Hotel New Yorker in Manhattan pays tribute to Nikola Tesla

Above: Hotel New Yorkers in Manhattan is one of the biggest and most beautiful hotels in the world.  Located at the intersection of 34th Street and 8th Avenue.  Built in 1930.

Tesla died on January 7th, 1943 in the Hotel New Yorker, where he had lived for the last ten years of his life (1933 -1943).  Room 3327 on the 33rd floor is the two-room suites  he occupied.

Above: Street window celebrating "Our Heritage", Nikola Tesla is photographed with King Peter of Yugoslavia in Hotel New Yorker, 1942.  Many famous people visited and lived in Hotel New Yorker, among them are Edward Hoover, Muhammad Ali, John Kennedy and others.

Above: Dr. Ljubo Vujovic, Secretary General, Tesla Memorial Society of New York in front of the street window bearing the photo of Nikola Tesla with King Peter of Yugoslavia, 1942.

Above: Dr. Ljubo Vujovic, Secretary General, Tesla Memorial Society of New York in front of the plaque of Nikola Tesla erected on July 10, 2001.

Above: Tesla commemorative plaque on Hotel New Yorker erected July 10, 2001 by the Tesla Memorial Society of New York and Hotel New Yorker.

Above: Dr. Ljubo Vujovic, Secretary General, Tesla Memorial Society of New York and Mr. Michael Krause, Film Producer, in Room 3327 on the 33rd floor of Hotel New Yorker, the room Nikola Tesla occupied.  Tesla 's room 3327 is now a regular Hotel room open to guests.

Above: Night view of Manhattan from Tesla's window on the 33rd floor, Hotel New Yorker.

Above: A view of Manhattan from Tesla's Window, Hotel New Yorker.

Above: View of New York City.

Above: Entrance in to Hotel New Yorker.

Above: Grand Ballroom, Hotel New Yorker

Above: Grand Ballroom, Hotel New Yorker, where Tesla celebrated his birthdays on July 10th.

Above: Tesla in his hotel room in the 1930s.  After he had an accident with a taxi in front of the hotel, he walked with a cane.

Above: Tesla being interviewed by reporters in Hotel New Yorker, January 10, 1935.

Above: New York Time July 11, 1937, Nikola Tesla received the Order of the White Lion from Vladimir Hurban, Minster from Czechoslovakia at the luncheon at the Grand Ballroom, Hotel New Yorker.  Many Radio and electronic industry in Czechoslovakia bears Tesla's name.  Tesla study philosophy at the University of Prague, he was good friends with Anthony Dvorsak, famous Czech composer who lived in New York City from 1892-1896.