City Hotel
From The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails
, on lower Broadway in New York City, almost from its opening in 1794 until it was demolished in 1849, was the home of one of the most influential bars in the world, presided over by the famous “Willard of the City Hotel.” See Willard, Orsamus.
This definition is from The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails, edited by David Wondrich (Editor-in-Chief) and Noah Rothbaum (Associate Editor).