Pershing Hotel commercial complex (Pershing Lounge / Budland; Pershing Ballroom)

CTL-E-1370 · Business · other · Mid-20th century (Jamal 1958; Parker 1950)

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63rd Street hotel-entertainment complex whose Pershing Lounge (Budland) hosted Ahmad Jamal's landmark 1958 'But Not for Me' recordings and whose Pershing Ballroom hosted Charlie Parker (1950). A major ordinary-corridor commercial anchor; documented by PLACE-001.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from ECON-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-ECON-001:ECON-051; source research type(s): business.

Sources

CTL-DR-PLACE-001 research-brief.md (2026-09-28)

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