although the hotel remained open during the project. The work included replacing the guest rooms' decorations, adding automatic elevators, refurbishing the restrooms, and installing mechanical equipment. Harry M. Anholt took over as Realty Hotels' president in 1954. During that decade, as part of a $5 million project spanning three hotels, Realty Hotels added 54 guest rooms to the Biltmore's top floor. In addition, the hotel's managers added several executive suites, which were then rented to industries and businesses for year-long terms. The Biltmore also began offering discounts and other sales packages to attract groups and conventions; by 1958, conventions at the hotel were being booked up to two years in advance. Additionally, the Grand Central Art Galleries (founded in 1922 by a group that included Walter Leighton Clark, John Singer Sargent, and Edmund Greacen) moved from Grand Central to the Biltmore in May 1959. The new space, on the hotel's second floor, contained six exhibition rooms and an office. Although the hotel was still profitable, the New York Central as a whole had begun to lose money by the late 1950s. During this time, the New Haven and the New York Central were involved in a long-running dispute; New Haven officials argued that they were entitled to half of the Biltmore's profits, as the two railroads were equal partners in the terminal's operation. In November 1958, the New Haven indicated that it did not want to renew Realty Hotels' lease of the Biltmore, which was about to expire, as Realty Hotels was a wholly-owned subsidiary of the New York Central. The New Haven wanted Realty Hotels to start paying rent directly to Grand Central's manager, which would split the profits evenly between the two railroads. In response, the New York Central ordered the terminal's manager to refuse the payments. A New York state court granted the New York Central a temporary injunction against the New Haven. The New York Supreme Court ruled in September 1960 that the New Haven had the right to collect income from the Biltmore. The Supreme Court's Appellate Division upheld the ruling in 1961, as did the New York Court of Appeals the next year. The New Haven had filed for bankruptcy by then, so a state judge ordered the New York Central to pay $1.6 million to the New Haven's trustees in July 1962. 1960s and 1970s The Parlor Car, a women's parlor room, opened