If the city administration will manage to convince the owner of the building of the former nuthouse to rebuild it into a hotel, then in Brooklyn at the First avenue, between the 29-th and 30-th streets, a new and quite an unusual hotel could appear. It's commercial would sound like this: "Wanna get to New York? Stay in a 4-stars psychiatric clinic. You will get a comfortable rest in luxury suites where the world famous psychos and killers spent their nights!"
Instead of the strait-jackets, terry dressing gowns will be offered to the clients. It is supposed that the most part of the clients of the Bellevue hotel will make the medical collaboratives and also the relatives and friends of the patients, that are located in the nearby hospitals. But due to the "interesting" past of the potential hotel, it would attract also other target groups of clients.
"The historical building with long corridors and small rooms, built in the Italian Renaissance style in 1931 ideally suits for a hotel",- thinks Melissa Connor, the vice-president of the city development commission.
Not every hotel can be proud that it hosted Norman Mailer, Eddy Sagwick and Charlie Parker, though as rare jewels of the colorful team of serial killers, maniacs and serious psychiatric ill people. "Our patients were not simple New-York neurasthenics, but really seriously insane people",- says doctor Frederic Kovan, who has worked for 14 years in the hospital as the chief psychiatrist. |