The Greystone

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The Greystone, also known as the Greystone Hotel is a fourteen-story building at 212-218 West 91st Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Samuel and Henry A. Blumenthal bought the property from the Astor estate in 1922 with marketing beginning two years later.{{cite web |title=Greystone Hotel |url=https://www.waltergrutchfield.net/greystone.htm |website=www.waltergrutchfield.net |access-date=20 April 2021}} It was designed by the architectural firm of Schwartz & Gross.{{cite book |last1=Salwen |first1=Peter |title=Upper West Side Story: A History and Guide |date=1989 |publisher=Abbeville Press |isbn=978-0-89659-894-2 |page=341 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OSAx9tm6hMEC&q=greystone%20%20 |access-date=20 April 2021 |language=en}}

The building is currently in residential use and the former ballroom has since been a series of restaurants including Polistina's and Big Daddy's.{{cite book |last1=Story |first1=Richard David |title=That's Italian |date=24 September 1990 |publisher=New York Magazine |page=30 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZmeBLxJqbN8C&dq=greystone+hotel+upper+west+side&pg=PA30 |access-date=20 April 2021 |language=en}}{{cite news |title=Acuity Capital {{!}} 212 West 91st Street {{!}} Natixis |url=https://therealdeal.com/2018/08/03/acuity-capital-secures-95m-loan-for-uws-rental-building/ |access-date=20 April 2021 |work=The Real Deal New York |date=3 August 2018}}{{cite news |title=West Side Rag » Update: UWS Big Daddy's Restaurant Plans to Close, Then Reopen as a Fine-Dining Restaurant; Here's the 'Official Statement' |url=https://www.westsiderag.com/2019/02/20/uws-big-daddys-restaurant-plans-to-close-then-reopen-as-a-fine-dining-restaurant |access-date=20 April 2021 |work=www.westsiderag.com |date=20 February 2019}}{{cite news |last1=Shutler |first1=Natalie |title=Home Shrunken Home |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/realestate/micro-apartments-tiny-homes-prefabricated-in-brooklyn.html |access-date=20 April 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=20 February 2015}}

Among its notable residents was

• Alberto Arroyo.{{cite news |last1=Gross |first1=Jane |title=RUNNER, 69, LIVES LIFE IN THE PARK |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/04/nyregion/runner-69-lives-life-in-the-park.html |access-date=20 April 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=4 November 1985}}
• The sixth Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn.