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" Remember going to the Plaza with your mom for lunch or afternoon tea when you were young? Eating vichyssoise in the Palm Court, hearing your mary janes echo on the marble tiles in the hallway, feeling a little bit Eloise, at least for an afternoon? Well the now-52-year-old Eloise has been politely put out to pasture by the condo board, and the Edwardian Room is being taken over by the mall-ification of Manhattan with new boutiques...but I will not let any of that rain on the Plaza&amp;#039;s birthday parade! The legendary hotel turned 100 last night, with a fireworks display on Grand Army Plaza, a performance by Paul Anka, and a 12-foot tall birthday cake model, built to scale, of one of my favorite buildings in New York. It may not be the same as it once was, but any aging social with a good plastic surgeon will tell you that we all need a little nip and tuck now and then to stay relevant...  &amp;quot;I am a city child...I live here, at the Plaza!&amp;quot;\u2013Eloise "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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