Luis Serrano remembers the last night he was at Bemelmans, the famed lounge inside the Upper East Side’s Carlyle Hotel. It was March 16, a Monday night. The 56-year-old native of Ecuador is the ...

Austrian-American artist Ludwig Bemelmans was born on April 27, 1898, in Merano, Austria-Hungary, now located in modern-day Italy. His father was a painter and hotel owner and his mother an amateur ...

The legend of Ludwig Bemelmans is inextricably linked to grand hotels. He was the son of a hotelier father and, as a boy growing up in Germany with a penchant for rebellion, was sent away by his ...

Their author and illustrator, Ludwig Bemelmans (1898-1962), was a prolific writer of a great many other books too (more than 40, including novels), as well as a painter and cartoonist. What a ...

Inside the Carlyle Hotel on the Upper East Side, Bemelmans is an NYC night out that everyone should experience at least once—even if it means toughing out an hour-long line to get in.

Murray, 74, was an audience member at Bemelmans Bar, inside the famed Carlyle Hotel on the Upper East Side, listening to the tunes of singing jazz pianist Robert Mosci when he felt the need to ...