These women checked into the Barbizon Hotel and—even though it technically no longer exists—they never left. New York City once had more than a hundred residential hotels, places like the ...

Located at 63rd Street and Lexington Avenue, the Barbizon Hotel housed 720 single-occupancy rooms in its 20th-century heyday. It's now a condo building. NY Post composite Evelyn Echols always ...

The Barbizon offered Plath and women like her a sanctuary in a bustling, sometimes overwhelming city, even as it also gave them a taste of an independent life. In an era when opportunities for wom ...

And, best of all, she was living at the most glamorous address a girl could have if she dreamed of becoming a star: the Barbizon Hotel for Women, at the corner of Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street.

By Moira Donegan THE BARBIZON The Hotel That Set Women Free By Paulina Bren Grace Kelly lived there before she was famous, and at least once, she danced topless through the halls. A young Sylvia ...

Among the handful of iconic hotels closely entwined with New York’s cultural history, the Barbizon is perhaps less widely known than the Plaza, Algonquin or Waldorf Astoria. But as Paulina Bren ...

Regarding Heller McAlpin’s engaging review of the book “The Barbizon” by Paulina Bren (Books, Feb. 27): I stayed at the Barbizon as a 16-year-old during the summer of 1969. The plainness of ...

This gloomy repose is often the fate of the 19th century Barbizon painters of France. Their paintings were once prized by collectors all over the world, but the Barbizon painters had the ...

The Barbizon, one of the city's most prominent all-women hotels of the early 20th century, was gutted and remade into a condo called Barbizon 63 in 2005. Now, one of the building's penthouses is ...