Billionaire Rowling’s Manhattan Hotel to Permanently Close

The Omni Berkshire Place hotel in midtown Manhattan will permanently close, the Covid-19 pandemic’s latest blow to New York’s lodging business.

Omni Hotels, owned by billionaire Robert Rowling’s TRT Holdings, informed loyalty members of plans to close the property on East 52nd Street, where Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein wrote the musical Oklahoma!