But its furniture lives on-packed up, taped, dollied out of the lobby-awaiting a second life.At Northcoast Hotel Liquidation, we specialize in the purchase, removal, and resale of hotel, restaurant, and lounge furnishings. Still: the Wellington predates the Plaza, the Algonquin, and the Knickerbocker. One vintage photo of Jimi Hendrix supposedly in the hotel roots the establishment to the 20th century more than its other bland signifiers. Their photos section is populated with stock photography of the hotel and general "New York City" activities: crossing the Brooklyn Bridge, going to Times Square, hitting up Central Park. "New York is unquestionably the most exciting city in the world and no place puts visitors in closer p," its bio says, "p" their own.
More depressing, perhaps, than the final days of the Wellington’s liquidation sale-even Friday, when basically no one came through while I was there-was a look over its defunct Facebook page. Benash, like the Wellington, is adorned with red neon signs, a bold celebration of New York nightlife and a promise of something come and gone. Across the street sits the boarded up Benash Delicatessen, the last of Midtown’s Jewish delis, which has been closed since 2018. Located a few blocks south of Central Park, the Wellington has stood since 1901, now ensconced in historical establishments both going strong-the block-away Carnegie Hall is decked out in promo posters and scaffolding-and shuttered. "It really is the city that never sleeps, huh?" my mom said after a handful of nights. My parents stayed in Midtown on their first visit to see me, despite my vague warning of "don’t stay in Midtown." They had to know what it was like, they argued, to be in the thick of it all: close to Times Square, close to the park, close to the shops. She opened and closed a storage locker a few times-"You think you could get clothes in there?" her mother asked, to which the daughter shook her head. On Thursday, I watched two parents chaperone their adult daughter throughout the sale. It was admittedly sad to imagine the property transformed into sterile luxury condos, the least cellar door phrase imaginable, but it was also sad to think about staying in the Wellington Hotel. You could buy just about any kind of chair imaginable, so long as you were content with mix-and-match: tall, low-backed bar seat, rolling black desk chair, simple wooden lobby chairs, or a dining room set fit with red, possibly "Asian-inspired" seat pads. What did anyone buy at a hotel liquidation sale anyway? I popped in Thursday and Friday, the final two days, eager to grab a lamp, maybe. A night at the three-star establishment would cost you about $229, neither the least nor most expensive stay in New York City that you could muster.įor the past two months, the Wellington has held a slow liquidation sale, handing off the hotel’s myriad furniture and other goods to anyone who comes in off the street with any interest. As New York magazine classified it in 2010, Extell "is emblematic of a new type of New York real estate firm that specializes in developing ultraluxury buildings that are akin to gated communities in the sky, where buyers with millions to spend can satisfy nearly any desire without ever stepping outside." In the way that these types of buildings have become interchangeably commonplace, Midtown hotels like the Wellington were also once a dime a dozen: early 20th century properties with non-distinct features, ornate carpeting, big beds, mahogany duped furniture. A few months ago, it was revealed that developer Gary Bartnett’s Extell Development Company had purchased the property. Midtown Manhattan’s century-plus old Wellington Hotel shuttered in December of 2021 during the height of the pandemic, it had been used as housing for those without. But the desks and what I could charitably identify as "the worst of the lamps" remained. Even a box labeled "luggage holders" sat empty. The beds were all but gone, the headboards too. There were still a lot of desks available at the Wellington Hotel liquidation sale.
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