The rooms are being done in waves, with some of the new rooms already on line and the entire hotel to be finished by the spring of next year.

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Built by railway baron Charles Melville Hayes, the hotel also has connections to another, more famous 100 year anniversary this spring.

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This opulent 294-room hotel -- once home to the Ministry of Defense -- reopened in the spring of 2011.

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It is all three of Cunningham's New Yorks that spring to mind when looking out over lower Manhattan from the floor-to-ceiling windows at the Bowery Hotel.

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