90 THE CARLYLE

They say of footballers of a certain age that “form is temporary, but class is permanent”. Much the same can be said of Rosewood’s Carlyle hotel on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Opened in 1930, it positively drips with art- deco period features – and was known as “the New York White House” during the Kennedy administration, as JFK owned an apartment on the 34th floor. Indeed, after famously singing Happy Birthday to JFK at a Birthday Gala at Madison Square Garden in May 1962, Marilyn Monroe was said to have used a warren of secret tunnels to enter The Carlyle to party with Kennedy and friends. More recently, the hotel’s Café Carlyle has become a jazz hotspot, with the likes of Alan Cumming regularly performing.

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