Built on the grounds of a public school in 1906, the hotel was bought by controversial socialite Leona Helmsley in 1985. The New York Helmsley Hotel became an iconic property in midtown with a ...

“She’s very comfortable with the hotel business,” said one source familiar with Helmsley’s business dealings. One year ago, Helmsley decided she could part with the New York ...

Host Hotels & Resorts said today that it closed on the $313.5 million sale of the New York Helmsley Hotel , which will be reflagged under the Westin Hotels & Resorts brand in mid-2012 after an ...

Host Hotels & Resorts has closed on the $313.5 million purchase of the New York Helmsley Hotel, which will become a Westin in mid 2012 after an extensive renovation. Host Hotels will renovate the ...

Leona Helmsley, the imperious Manhattan hotel magnate who was derided as “the Queen of Mean” in the late 1980s when she was on trial for income tax evasion and was deemed the woman New Yorkers ...

Trouble owed her coddled lifestyle to her former owner, New York Hotel heiress Leona Helmsley, who died in 2007 and turned her back on relatives to bequeath the bulk of her estate, $12 million ...

The New York Palace Hotel has opened a new bar called Trouble's Trust, inspired by heiress Leona Helmsley's famous four-legged friend. Courtesy The New York Palace Hotel Oct. 27, 2013&#151 ...

Built in 1953, the 177-room hotel was long owned by New York billionaires Harry and Leona Helmsley. Leona Helmsley, a real estate tycoon dubbed "The Queen of Mean" by the New York media ...