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Description

What to expect: The Garden City Hotel has been Long Island’s principal celebration and meeting hotel since 1874, as well as a social, dining, and nightlife center. Socialites of a bygone era—such as the Astors and Vanderbilts—sojourned here. Charles Lindbergh spent the night before flying across the Atlantic to Paris in 1927. Twenty-first-century celebrities have succeeded the social elite as habitués.

Rebuilt four times, most recently in 1983, and renovated in 2003, the hotel preserves 19th-century opulence, a tapestry of marble, crystal, mirrored and upholstered walls, fireplaces (now gas), and brocade-and velvet-seating. Background music is classical.

Amenity highlights: Highly acclaimed Polo Restaurant serves seasonal New American dishes such as fresh-pea ravioli with crabmeat in lobster coulis; pan-seared, wild, striped bass in Basque-style pepper stew with clams, chorizo, and saffron potatoes; and antelope loin with dauphine potatoes. The high-tech Posh Ultra Lounge offers DJ dance music Thursday and Saturday nights for celebrity-studded crowds. A complimentary health club includes an indoor pool and a spa tub.

Insider tip: Garden City, now a leafy village, was created in the 19th century on 10,000 acres of treeless plains by Alexander Turney Stewart, a Scot from Northern Ireland who had become a New York City department-store mogul. On request, the hotel provides a Heritage Tour map of historical buildings and sites surrounding the hotel.