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The lobby of the Palace Hotel has three levels all accessed off the grand staircase. Prior to the completion of this project, few New Yorkers had seen the spectacular Villard interiors, which are among the very finest in the country. The hotel scored a major coup in the mid-90’s when Le Cirque, the very fashionable restaurant, a kind of a celebrity haunt, announced it would relocate from its Upper East Side location into the public rooms of the Villard townhouse. The new restaurant is the Cirque 2000 and its daring design works reasonably well in the Flatiron or SoHo districts. In 1995, the hotel created an elegant outdoor cafe in the already handsome courtyard that is quite possibly the finest oasis in the city.


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