Fifth Ave 02.5 - From Manhattan With Love - Plot & Excerpts
The parallels they shared were not lost on her. In fact, they were among the reasons she chose to buy the building. She still couldn’t believe it was hers. What had once been one of the city’s great Art Deco hotels now was in her hands thanks to the money left to her by Harold Baines, her great friend who took his life but not before leaving her half of his considerable fortune. At first glance, the hotel was a sorry wreck, but Leana and her investors saw something beneath the grime, the moldy ceilings and the cracked walls, and they were committed to returning it back to its former glory. A complete restoration effort would begin next week. It would take a year before the hotel re-opened, but when it did, she was convinced it would rival any hotel in the city. Especially, anything owned by her father, George Redman, who happened to have an office building across the esplanade on 48th. She looked at it. It was just one of the many skyscrapers he called his own in the city. Unlike some of his more prominent landmark buildings, some of which she admitted were beautiful, this one failed to be remarkable or even memorable. It was pure glass and steel, a relic from the seventies that lacked beauty and imagination. It was as boxy as a refrigerator and it looked just as cold, which she thought was fitting considering he owned it. What it did have going for it was its location, which was a key reason companies fought to claim space on those rare occasions when space became available. It was another of his many successes, a red dot he could place on a map amid all the other red dots that marked the vast amount of property he owned in the city.
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