Collection moved to the Mid-Manhattan Library on 40th Street. In March 2009, after the financial crisis of 2007–08, Orient Express backed out. In October 2011, demolition began on the building after Orient sold the building to Tribeca Associates and Starwood Capital Group, to erect a 46-story $400 million hotel/condo complex with a library. Originally supposed to open by June 30, 2014, it opened in March 2015 without a library. It was planned to be the flagship of the new Baccarat Hotels and Resorts luxury brand. It was later sold to Chinese insurer Sunshine Insurance Group for $230 million. The formal design by Enrique Norten of TEN Arquitectos of the new library was unveiled in May 2013. The new library is , as opposed to the original space, on part of the main floor and two lower floors. Much of the main floor space is a massive airy staircase with "bleacher steps" where people can sit and congregate. The new library has a 141-seat auditorium (smaller than the old) and a technology hub. The building contains a two-story-high glass facade. It opened June 27, 2016. Critics spoke highly of the new design but disapproved the smaller size. Winnie the Pooh dolls In the 1940s Pooh author A. A. Milne donated the dolls to the American publisher E. P. Dutton. The dolls were then donated to the library in 1988. In 1998 British Member of Parliament Gwyneth Dunwoody urged that the dolls be returned to the British Parliament. Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani came to their defense. The mayor, after the visiting the library, and holding the bear with a group of children proclaimed in a "leaked" conversation that the bear told him "I want everyone in Britain and America to know that we're very, very happy here in New York City" and that it had also lauded the city's drop in crime and thought New York "capital of the world." Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey said "The Brits have their head in a honey jar if they think they are taking Pooh out of New York City." Mike McCurry, spokesman for Bill Clinton said "As the President indicated to some of us, the notion that the United States would lose Winnie is utterly unbearable." According to the New York Public Library's web site, the dolls were relocated to "grand new quarters in the History and Social Science Library" at the Main Branch, where