Show store carries old hotel name away up in harlem Is a sign which reads the old astor house store in reply to an inquiry the proprietor eald said the bus ness was established in the vicinity of the old astor house when the latter was the big hotel of 0 new york later on it moved up to fourteenth street and carried the name of the old hotel with it some years after it moved up to forty sec see ond street and the name went with it then it jumped all the way to har lem iem and as the name had become one ot of the fixtures of the business it was maintained the business now Is in the hands of the third generation ot of the family that established it just a bit of sentiment new ew york press |