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 <description><![CDATA[<!--paging_filter--><p>Vornado-owned <a href="http://www.nyobserver.com/node/39264">Hotel Pennsylvania</a> has agreed to pay nearly $100,000, court records show, to a group of six tourists who claimed to have been bitten by bedbugs while staying at the old Seventh Avenue lodge.
<p>The alleged victims included two Swiss women reportedly &quot;<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/01/national/main1089394.shtml">eaten alive</a>&quot; by the nocturnal blood-sucking insects in 2005. </p>
<p>The victims' attorney, Adam Sattler, called the amount of the settlement &quot;satisfactory,&quot; adding that the hotel has since taken steps to better prevent the pests from infiltrating rooms and attacking other guests. </p>
<p>The 22-story, McKim, Mead &amp; White-designed building, erected in 1919, has been the subject of much debate lately. Vornado has threatened to demolish the hotel and erect a giant office tower in its place, while <a href="http://www/savethehotel.org">activists</a> have campaigned to preserve it. </p>
<p>Perhaps best-known as the inspiration for the old Glenn Miller tune, &quot;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEnnsylvania_6-5000">Pennsylvania 6-5000</a>,&quot; the less-than-luxurious state of the once glamorous Hotel Penn was perhaps best described by comic Dave Barry in his 2002 <em>Miami Herald </em>column, &quot;<a href="http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/693415/posts">Hotel, schmotel</a> -- I'll just shtay in the shtreet.&quot; </p>]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:12:27 -0500</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>Chris Shott</dc:creator>
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