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Article: Former Carter Adviser Leon Charney Building Bryant Park Hotel.
- Article from:
- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- July 22, 2008
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Leon Charney, a 69-year-old developer and attorney whose colorful career has included stints as President Jimmy Carter's foreign policy adviser and convicted spy Jonathan Pollard's lawyer, and who now moderates a public affairs show called The Leon Charney Report, is building a hotel near Bryant Park.
Mr. Charney, who had just returned from China when he spoke with The Observer, said he will replace the five-story office building at 120 West 41st Street--now vacant but for the Simply Pasta restaurant on the ground floor--with a $90 million boutique hotel, which will rise "about" 22 floors and contain a bit more than 100 luxury rooms, a spa and a swimming pool.
Mr. ...
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