Former hotel in Queens, New York
Curley's Atlas Hotel and Baths |
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Type | Hotel |
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Location | Queens, New York City |
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Address | Beach 102nd Street (originally), Beach 116th Street (after 1900) |
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Year(s) built | 1876 |
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Destroyed | March 31, 1968 |
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Owner | John J. Curley |
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Curley's Atlas Hotel and Baths was a long-standing institution in Queens, New York City. The hotel was founded in 1876 by John J. Curley on the beachfront at present-day Beach 102nd Street, in the neighborhood now known as Rockaway Beach or "Irishtown". The hotel was moved to its larger longer-lasting site at Beach 116th Street (then known as Fifth Avenue) in 1900.
Curley's remained extremely popular well past World War II, and was mentioned in a comedy routine by George Carlin as the place where he was conceived.[1]
The hotel was destroyed by fire on March 31, 1968. After the fire, the lot remained empty for forty years.[2]
Sources
- Vincent Seyfried and William Asadorian, Old Rockaway, New York, in Early Photographs, Dover Publications, Mineola, NY, 2000.
- Kevin Boyle, Braving the Waves: Rockaway Rises and Rises Again, Rising Star Press, 2002.
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