An ambitious joint venture proposal would replace the 101-year-old hotel with a 1.3 million-square-foot tower.

Redevelopment potential The Roosevelt was far from the only New York hotel to take in migrants. At one point, about 19,000 ...

But he didn’t say at the time that 96 of the hotel’s 103 employees would lose their jobs. The Roosevelt was dubbed “the new Ellis Island” because it served as a centralized intake center ...