Iroquois Hotel: Just down the street from the Algonquin Hotel on West 44th Street, the Iroquois New York Hotel opened in 1900. Although it does not have the same reputation for being an artistic and literary mecca as the Algonquin, it has had its share of celebrity visits. James Dean lived there for a time in the 1950s, and Jonny Depp was said to have stayed there at one point. Today its owners advertise the hotel as a “luxurious” midtown refuge.
