Hotel Edison Hotel Edison Hotel Edison is a historic hotel building in Midtown Manhattan, New York City and is part of the Triumph Hotels collection which is owned by Shimmie Horn and Gerald Barad. It was constructed in 1931. Thomas Edison turned on the lights when it opened. It accommodated 1,000 guests on 26 floors and offered three restaurants. It attempted to mimic the telephone number PEnnsylvania 6-5000 of the Hotel Pennsylvania by using the telephone exchange name CIrcle 6-5000. Herbert J. Krapp was the architect, and Milton J. Kramer was the original owner. It is located on 47th Street, west of
Glenn Miller Orchestra top items in his library." In just four years, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra accumulated 17 number-one singles and 59 Top Ten hits. His number-one hits stayed at the top of either "Your Hit Parade" or "Billboard" charts for 73 weeks. In a period of only 203 weeks of recording, Miller and His Orchestra's songs spent 442 weeks, the equivalent of eight and half years, in the Top Ten, 189 of which are from multiple consecutive streaks, the largest being two totalling above 70 weeks. Miller also has the distinction of having three posthumous "Billboard" number-one albums: A self-titled compilation