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The Culinary team poses for a photograph atop the Roof Garden located on the 20th floor of our hotel. Since 2011, our roof top garden contains six beehives which help pollinate the various types of vegetables, fruits, herbs and plants that grow in…

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Prior to the closing of the first Waldorf Astoria, the roof top was used as a playground for children staying at the hotel.

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During the winter months from 1903-1929, the roof garden of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel was converted into an ice skating rink to be used by hotel guests.

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A picture of the original Waldorf Astoria Hotel roofgarden; picture taken by George Boldt in 1903.

In the Summer of 2013, the Waldorf Astoria welcomed over 1,000 new guests with "open" arms. These guests were not your typical guests...no, they were over 1,000 honey bees which were given a new home in our Roof Top Garden. Chef David Garcelon greets…

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Descriptions of the various room of the Old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel from the 1903 promotional publication assembled by George C. Boldt, then manager and proprietor of the Waldorf-Astoria.

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Ice skaters on the roof garden of the Fifth Avenue Waldorf-Astoria
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