{"id":2904,"slug":"the-jane-hotel-new-york-new-york","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Jane is the '08 — the 'sailors' home' that's the 25 cents, the 'Titanic' that's the sheltered. The 'Nearer My God' is the '12 — the '100 survivors' that's the sang, the 'roaring chorus' that's the memorial. The 'cabin' is the rooms — the 'bunk beds' that's the kept, the 'YMCA' that's the '44.","The 'Riverview' is the '90s — the 'flophouse' that's the down-and-out, the 'MacPherson' that's the '08 restored. The 'beacon' is the tower — the 'Hudson' that's the shone, the 'anchors' that's the carved. The Jane is the boutique — the 'Boring' that's the Ellis Island, the 'still hotel' that's the same.","The file keeps The Jane: the 1908 sailors, the Titanic survivors, the 25-cent rooms, and the boutique restored.","The Jane Hotel is the archive's NYC file — the seamen's palace."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Jane Hotel is the archive's NYC file — the Titanic's shelter.","A hotel keeps its chorus — the file's suggestion being that Jane's hold is the survivors: the '100' that's the sang, the '25 cents' that's the sailors, and the 'cabin' that's the kept."]}],"name":"The Jane Hotel","aliases":[],"type":"HOTEL","type_label":"Hotel","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_BUILDING","MARITIME"],"groups":["hauntings","legends","lodging"],"desc":"The 1908 sailors’ hotel—where the Titanic survivors stayed.","full_desc":"The Jane Hotel is a hotel in New York, New York. The 1908 sailors’ hotel—where the Titanic survivors stayed. Its accounts name only a collective — the sailors. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. It still takes guests. For HauntHunt it is exactly the kind of file the archive exists for: a real place, a real record, and a story still being told.","address":null,"city":"New York","county":null,"state":"New York","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":40.662712,"lon":-73.938677,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"NYC batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":2655,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"The sailors are reportedly seen. The New York hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. 'The Jane Hotel' carries the account. A ghost with a name outlasts a ghost without one; the reports keep it employed.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The sailors","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"The Jane Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_seventeen","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":2656,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures in the hotel. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. The file holds testimony rather than proof; the claim remains anecdotal. The account appears in 'The Jane Hotel'. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"The Jane Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_seventeen","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Built 1908; the Titanic connection is documented. A hotel with this much documented history gives the dossier real substance underneath the lore. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The detail is preserved in 'The Jane Hotel'. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1908","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"The Jane Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_seventeen","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The sailors are reportedly seen. A hotel in New York, New York with more than a century of check-ins gives the reports plenty of rooms to work with. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The account appears in 'The Jane Hotel'. It's the version the place will be remembered by, whether or not it's the true one.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"The Jane Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_seventeen","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The sailors","claimed_identity":"The sailors","verified":null,"summary":"The sailors are reportedly seen. The Jane Hotel, a hotel in New York, New York, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. Sources including 'The Jane Hotel' keep the claim in circulation. The named presence is what turns a haunting into a household. The claim holds its place in the ledger.","behavior":"The sailors are reportedly seen.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"The Jane Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_seventeen","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Operating or preserved hotel property; public areas vary—check directly for tours or overnight stays.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"The Jane Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_seventeen","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}