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Show i New York's First Hotel. The earliest hotel on record In New York city was Krlegers tavern, about 1042, replaced In lTttl by the King's Arms. At nhmit the time that the town became KiiijIUIi u proclamation was Issued ifiilntiiiK the Inns, with the stipulation that turnls were not to cost mom limn I'lKlitpcpco nor beer xlxpepio the ii:irl. Today the only check on piolltecrliu; romes through 'he tint unit Inw of competition, hut for the purpiHi of iiiIvInIiik U-ts of Intended chniyeH rules for room nnd o:ird iiitisi In' pixteil rniinpk'iiniiidy ii the pri'inlM'", ' |