The Row Hotel

Row NYC Hotel is a hotel in New York City. At 27 stories and 1,331 rooms, it was the largest hotel in Manhattan when it opened on February 13, 1928, as the Hotel Lincoln, one day after the 119th anniversary of the birth of its namesake, Abraham Lincoln. It featured a towering mast on top with neon lettering reading "HOTEL LINCOLN" which was lit on opening day by Governor Al Smith, who pressed a button in Albany to illuminate it. It was originally owned by the Kramer family and then by Maria Kramer, a dancer once married to Max Kramer, until the 1950s.