Half Moon Hotel

Half Moon Hotel

The Half Moon Hotel in Coney Island, New York was a 225-foot-tall, 14-story hotel that opened in 1927 on the Boardwalk at West 29th Street. It is best known as the location where Abe Reles, informant for the FBI who brought down numerous members of Murder, Inc., "fell" to his death on November 12, 1941 a few hours before he was scheduled to testify against Albert Anastasia.

The name "Half Moon" refers to the name of explorer Henry Hudson's ship, which anchored off Gravesend Bay in Brooklyn (the location of Coney Island), on its way to finding a short cut to Asia.

In the late 1940's The Half Moon Hotel became a maternity hospital called Harbor Hospital. In the 1970's it became a senior citizen's home. It was demolished in 1995.


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