From a New York Times story by Abby Ellin headlined “At 13, She Fled the Nazis. At 95, She Runs a Storied Bohemian Hotel.”:

One night in 1980, Rita Paul asked her husband, Daniel, if he minded if they moved into the Hotel Earle in Greenwich Village. ‌ ‌

It was not such a strange request. The Paul‌‌s had owned the ‌‌Earle since 1973, ‌‌when it was already seven decades old. By the time the Pauls acquired it, the Earle had evolved from a bare-bones residential hotel to a funky haven for an eclectic crowd. For her own retreat, Ms. Paul had her eye on four connecting chambers on the fourth floor.