Are we bringing back 5th avenue anon… So, the Carlyle Hotel is near to the Alice in Wonderland statue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyle_Hotel
In the same way that they call Mar-a-Lago the Florida Whitehouse for Trump, it was called the New York Whitehouse during the Kennedy presidency.
The Carlyle became known as "the New York White House" during the administration of President John F. Kennedy, who owned an apartment on the 34th floor for the last ten years of his life. He stayed at the apartment in a well-publicized visit for a few days just prior to his inauguration in January 1961. Marilyn Monroe was sneaked in through the service entrance on East 77th Street.[citation needed] After famously singing "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" at Kennedy's birthday gala at Madison Square Garden on May 19, 1962, Monroe reportedly used a warren of tunnels to enter the Carlyle secretly with Kennedy and friends.[citation needed] The New York Post reported a Mob smear campaign plot on Robert F. Kennedy planned as an informant passed on information that a Mrs. Jacqueline Hammond had information on the sex-capade; however, the Post article stated "An FBI summary of the documents released yesterday said the bureau didn't consider the Milwaukee and Hammond information "solid".[11][clarification needed] Years later, longtime bellman Michael O'Connell recalled, "Those tunnels. President Kennedy knew more about the tunnels than I did".[12]
The Carlyle was the last place John F. Kennedy, Jr. ate breakfast before departing on his ill-fated plane trip to Martha's Vineyard with his wife and her sister.[10]
The Council for United Civil Rights Leadership (CUCRL) was organized in a meeting held at the Carlyle. Malcolm X expressed his concerns with having a white man in charge of this new fundraising organization during a November 10, 1963, speech, "Message to the Grass Roots". He described the hotel (rather than just one suite) as being owned by the Kennedy family.[13]
In 1967, the hotel was purchased by a partnership of Jerome L. Greene, Norman L. Peck, and Peter Jay Sharp.[14] The hotel is the source of the name for The Carlyle Group, as it was the location where that firm's founders first met in the mid-1980s.[15]
Despite its brushes with history, the hotel retained a reputation for discretion. In June 2000, The New York Times called it a "Palace of Secrets".[10] The hotel was the subject of a 2018 documentary film by writer-director Matthew Miele, called Always at the Carlyle.
I've also embedded the first Secrets In plain Sight video for New York, which is required viewing if you're going down this rabbit hole. You should watch the entire video ideally.