Hotel New York
Twin-towered Art Nouveau former shipping-line headquarters, now a hotel at the tip of a historic pier.
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This guide to Hotel New York in Rotterdam begins on the tenth of May, nineteen forty, when the war reached the Wilhelminakade and the pier outside became a battleground. It reaches back to the decades when this was the head office of the Holland America Line, and to the emigrants who passed through on their way to a new life across the Atlantic. Stand on the quay facing the two towers, where you can see the carved figures at the entrance.
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