The New York Times has a magnificent look inside Cipriani 42nd Street, the Midtown Manhattan catering hall with grand marble columns, soaring ceilings, and ornate chandeliers. If you’ve ever passed by the building, you’ll know just from the outside that it’s an old-fashioned and majestic place.

Back in the 1920′s it served as the headquarters for the Bowery Savings Bank. My, what a great banking experience that must have been. Banks nowadays are so plain and ugly.