Carnegie Hall | New York | John Jacob Astor | The St. Regis
Billy Joel's Big Apple
by
Mark Seal"My favorite hotel is The St. Regis. It's very much old New York.
It was built for John Jacob Astor for his friends from out of town.
It's got his stamp all over it. It's done in a grand style, but
it's not overwhelmingly big. It's kind of classical, very
comfortable, very welcoming. A lot of the appointments and decor
are European in style, but it also has that old New York feeling to
it. It's
Midtown, it's convenient, and there are a lot of great
things to do in the area."
Dinner
"Right across the street from
Carnegie Hall is Fontana di Trevi. It
was one of the places I was thinking of when I wrote the song
'Scenes from an Italian Restaurant.' I used to go there from time
to time and I couldn't always get a table for dinner. Then I played
Carnegie Hall back in the early '70s and it was sold-out for like
three nights. They had a big poster of me outside the hall. I went
across the street to Fontana di Trevi and asked the maitre d' for a
table. He said, 'Oh, no, no. I'm sorry, we are booked.' So I said,
'Do you see that poster?' He said, 'Yeah.' And then he looked at me
and said, 'Oh, my god. You know, we just happen to have a table.'
One surefire way to get a table in
New York City is to sell out
Carnegie Hall."
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