Meet me at the hyphen.

Psh, listen, Connie: You don’t have to tell me how confusing having a hyphen in your name can be.

The new structure was 17 stories with “perpendicular railways”; an indoor driveway on the 34th street side, the first in hotel history; a grand ballroom seating 1,500 and a roof garden. Between them the two hotels had 1,000 rooms, three floors of banquet and meeting rooms and common manage- man under George Boldt. After it was named Waldorf=Astoria, New Yorkers would tell their friends, “Meet me at the Hyphen.” ‘Where’s that?’ the friends would ask. ‘Between the Waldorf and the Astoria.’

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   I’m pretty sure they just did away with the “=” in their name, but I’m not sure.

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