The story
Newark's first million-dollar hotel was home to gangster Longy Zwillman, then purchased by preacher Father Divine who paid $550,000 in cash that took 14 bank tellers 3.5 hours to count.
Everything that was here
- 1922–present · still open
Hotel RivieraHotel
Newark's first million-dollar hotel was home to gangster Longy Zwillman, then purchased by preacher Father Divine who paid $550,000 in cash that took 14 bank tellers 3.5 hours to count.
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