NYPD slow to make the connection in Park Plaza Hotel slayings that claimed lives of eight women

No doubt New York’s Finest would just as soon forget that the Park Plaza Hotel ever existed. Eight women who lived alone there turned up dead in their rooms over a 16-month stretch, and the NYPD failed to make a connection. The first to die was Theresa Jordan, 39. Her decomposed body was found April 10, 1973, at the hotel, at 50 W. 77th St., opposite the American Museum of Natural History. Today, the rebranded building is called Parc 77, and closet-sized apartments go for three grand a month. But 40 years ago, it was a welfare flop where rooms rented for 40 bucks a month to down-and-outers. The coroner was summoned to the Park Plaza again 16 weeks after Jordan died. Kate Lewinsohn, 65, a retired stenographer, was found suffocated and raped in Room 221. Bodies really began piling up at the hotel in the spring of 1974.

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