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Her murder went unsolved: “Follow-Up News,” New York Times, August 22, 1976.
The Barbizon’s owners: Didi Moore, “The Developer as Hero,” Metropolitan Home, October 1982.
Lori Nathanson, just graduated from Vassar College: Lori Nathanson, email correspondence with the author, December 29, 2015.
The Women had become a serious eyesore: Vivian Brown, “Refurbishing the Barbizon,” Washington Post, August 27, 1977.
One Barbizon resident recalled the benches: Interview with Kitty Yerkes, May 1, 2009, UNCW Archives and Special Collections; Randall Library Oral History Collection, 1990–Present; Series 2: Southeast North Carolina; Subseries 2.3: Notables; Item 108.
With the new manager, Barry Mann: Connie Lauerman, “Barbizon Hotel: Still Home Away from Home for Women,” Chicago Tribune, December 28, 1977.
Out too went the pink and lime furniture: “Home Style: Beautifying the Barbizon,” New York Times, October 10, 1976.
He wanted to continue to offer: Lauerman, “Barbizon Hotel.”
With that done, he organized: Judy Klemesrud, “Barbizon Hotel Celebrates Half Century of Service to Women,” New York Times, October 31, 1977.
The hotel had changed from “a fresh-faced starlet”: Ellan Cates, “Barbizon Hotel for Women Goes Coed,” Journal-Register (Medina, NY), February 10, 1981.
The only former-resident-turned-celebrity: Klemesrud, “Barbizon Hotel Celebrates.”
Kim Neblett, once checked into the Barbizon: Dee Wedemeyer, “Barbizon, at 49: A Tradition Survives,” New York Times, March 13, 1977.
Her hair fragrant: Meg Wolitzer, “My Mademoiselle Summer,” New York Times, July 21, 2013.
there were still only 130 rooms: Alan S. Oser, “Barbizon Hotel, Long an Anachronism, Begins a New Life,” New York Times, February 27, 1981.
But this was 1979 New York: Wolitzer, “My Mademoiselle Summer.”
Two years earlier, New York: Angela Derouin, email correspondence with author, January 17, 2016.
At a Scent Seminar at Revlon: Wolitzer, “My Mademoiselle Summer.”
The city would find salvation: Frank Bruni, “Why Early ’80s New York Matters Today,” New York Times Style Magazine, April 17, 2018.
When David Teitelbaum was first hired: Wedemeyer, “Barbizon, at 49.”
A “bejeweled” elderly resident: Ellan Cates, “End of an Era: Barbizon Hotel for Women,” UPI Archives, March 1, 1981.
The Women momentarily put aside: Paul Blustein, “New Owners May Mix Things Up at Women-Only Barbizon Hotel,” Wall Street Journal, November 13, 1980.
At first, Teitelbaum offered $1 million: Edward A. Gargan, “For 114 Women at the Barbizon, a Grim Uncertainty,” New York Times, December 29, 1980.
Under New York rental laws: Blustein, “New Owners May Mix Things Up.”
The male raffle winner: Luce Press Clippings (Television News Transcripts), February 15, 1981, 7:00 a.m., accessed June 4, 2019, at http://www.starwarmer.org/personalbarbizon.html.
William Nicholas of Long Island: “Sammy Cahn Sings ‘It’s Been a Long, Long Time’ to First Male Guests at the Barbizon; Ten-Story Heart Unfurled to Mark Occasion,” press release, copy accessed June 4, 2019, at http://www.starwarmer.org/personalbarbizon.html.
The splashy event had made an impression: Luce Press Clippings (Television News Transcripts), February 14, 1981, 10:30 p.m., accessed June 4, 2019, at http://www.starwarmer.org/personalbarbizon.html.
He continued to insist: Horace Sutton, “New York’s Barbizon Hotel Is Finally Going Coed,” Chicago Tribune, June 20, 1982.
In 1984, the hotel’s reincarnation finally complete: “New York Day by Day: Festival at the Barbizon,” New York Times, April 20, 1984.
The menu at the Café Barbizon: 1987 menu for the Café Barbizon, SC.
Police were called to a room: Marianne Yen and Bill Dedman, “Spence Faces Drug, Weapon Charges After Being Found in New York Hotel,” Washington Post, August 9, 1989.
Soon after, Georgette Mosbacher: “Uzi-Toting Thief Robs Georgette Mosbacher,” Los Angeles Times, June 13, 1990.
This time, to lower costs: Linda Dyett, “The Medical-Beauty Convergence,” American Spa, September/October 2000, 50.
Shortly before the Twin Towers came down: “Barbizon Moves Ahead and Its Great Ladies Remember,” New York Post, October 28, 1997.
The challenge of the condominium project: Josh Barbanel, “A New Chapter for the Barbizon,” New York Times, March 19, 2006.
Among those who first bought: Josh Barbanel, “The New 30 Is Now 50,” New York Times, August 19, 2007.
The former chairman of Meow Mix: Christine Haughney, “$6 Million for the Co-op, Then Start to Renovate,” New York Times, October 6, 2007.
In 2011, the Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts: Sarah Kershaw, “Still Waiting in the Wings,” New York Times, July 24, 2011.
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8 SARA KRULWICH/The New York Times/Redux
11 Denver Public Library, Western History; Photographic Collections
17 Samuel H. (Samuel Herman) Gottscho (1875-1971) / Museum of the City of New York
45 Courtesy of the Susan Camp Private Collection (1936-7 Katharine Gibbs Catalogue, 40)
71 Courtesy of the New York Public Library Digital Collection
75 USC Digital Library. Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection
92 Courtesy of the Susan Camp Private Collection (Collier’s, December 25, 1948: 21)
94 Courtesy of the Nanette Emery Mason Private Collection
111 “Grace Kelly in The Country Girl”: The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images. Photographer: Ed Clark
115 Courtesy of the Susan Camp Private Collection (New York Sunday News, March 5, 1950: 7) Photographers: Bill Klein and Daniel Jacino
123 Courtesy of Pamela Barkentin. Photographer: George Barkentin
143 LANDSHOFF HERMAN, Mademoiselle © Conde Nast
152 Courtesy of Neva Nelson
171 Courtesy of Conde Nast. SHORR RAY, Mademoiselle
203 Courtesy of the Susan Camp Private Collection (Collier’s, December 25, 1948: 21) Photographer: Sharland
227 LANDSHOFF HERMAN, Mademoiselle © Conde Nast
231 LANDSHOFF HERMAN, Mademoiselle © Conde Nast
255 Estate of Evelyn Hofer. Photographer: Evelyn Hofer
277 Courtesy of the Susan Camp Private Collection (September 25, 1980, Press Photo)
288 Paulina Bren
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