The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen was founded in 1820 to improve educational and cultural opportunities for the people of New York.  A number of facilities are available to the public at their building in the heart of midtown Manhattan.

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The yellow pages of the New York telephone directory carries 57 pages of hotel advertisements, mostly in boastful full color. Hotel Wales – long a member of The Hundred Year Association – appears in two single lines of low-key type even though it has been serving well-to-do travelers for more than a century. (Phone number:  212 876-6000 .)

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