three others in the complex.” Present day Today, the St. George Tower is a co-op owned and run by the St. George Tower and Grill Owners Corp. and is located at 111 Hicks Street (also known as 44 Pineapple Street). It has 30 floors and 275 units, covers a lot area of , and has a gross floor area of . The 100 Henry Street entrance, also known as the "Weller Wing" of the St. George and previously the hotel main entrance, is now part of Educational Housing Services (EHS), which provides dormitory service to NYC area university students. This same entrance also allows access to the EHS-owned "Studio Wing". In 2005, EHS expanded their St. George operations and opened a new wing of the building at 55 Clark Street known as Clark Residence constructed over the site of the hotel building destroyed by fire in 1995. EHS houses 1,200 domestic and international students. Street level house shops, restaurants, and charming neighborhood shops occupy the street fronts on Clark and Henry. The subway entrance is located on the Henry Street entrance. In media Columbia Records (now Sony Classical) used the Grand Ballroom at the Hotel St. George as a venue for several famous recordings by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. Among them are Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture (recorded on January 28, 1957), Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring (January 1958), and Gershwin's An American in Paris (December 1958) and Rhapsody in Blue (June 1959). In the 1972 film The Godfather, the meeting between Luca Brasi and Virgil Sollozzo was filmed in the hotel's lobby bar. The fish motif glass panel was designed by David Harriton, and created and installed by Harriton Carved Glass, 522 E. 72nd St. New York 21 New York. References External links 1885 establishments in New York (state) Brooklyn Heights Building and structure fires in New York City Emery Roth buildings Hotels established in 1885 Hotels in Brooklyn New York City Subway infrastructure Residential buildings in Brooklyn