Tesla occupied room 3327 at New York City's Hotel New Yorker. He moved into the hotel in 1934 and lived there during the final years of his life.
The Hotel New Yorker, opened in 1930, was one of Manhattan's major Art Deco-era hotels. Tesla's room became closely associated with his late-life routine: he continued working on ideas, receiving occasional visitors and reporters, and walking to nearby parks and landmarks to feed pigeons. His attachment to the birds was so strong that it became one of the best-known details of his later years.
Tesla died alone in room 3327 on January 7, 1943, at age 86. A hotel maid found him after he had placed a “do not disturb” sign on the door. The medical examiner listed coronary thrombosis as the cause of death. Room 3327 is sometimes confused with other numbered rooms because Tesla had lived in several New York hotels, including the Waldorf-Astoria, St. Regis, Hotel Pennsylvania, and Hotel Governor Clinton. The New Yorker room is the one specifically linked to his death.