The hotel plans to harvest its own honey and help pollinate plants in the skyscraper-heavy heart of the
city, joining a mini beekeeping boom that has taken over
hotel rooftops from Paris to Times Square.
"Today about half the population of each hive, the foragers, are flying mostly in the direction of Central Park," explained Andrew Cote, the Waldorf's beekeeper-in-residence, on a recent sunny afternoon as he inspected each hive.