It’s an interesting question of what would have happened if the New Yorker Hotel had reappeared in the past at the location where it would later disappear. The building had only been built seven years before it disappeared, so in 1903 that area was an entire city block with different buildings on it. Even if the hotel had somehow arrived and stayed intact with multiple other buildings located inside it, it couldn’t have stayed that way very long, and the collapse of the building would have been disastrous for anything nearby, likely killing hundreds. But it didn’t appear there, thankfully.
Instead, the building reappeared inside, and around, and mostly under, Nikola Telsa’s Wardenclyffe lab on the night of July 14, 1903, at the exact moment that at a younger Nikola Tesla first managed to create a state of temporal flux by vibrating time.
Unlike the disappearance of the hotel, there was a lot of sound as it appeared. Residents reported being awoken by a gigantic boom from the direction of Wardenclyffe. A few had already noticed some odd lights in that direction, and those watchers say the boom was preceded by a giant flash at exactly 11:13 at night, and after that there was also a rumbling sound. But no one went to check until morning.
In the morning, in the light of day, the disaster was clear. The entire Wardenclyffe lab was completely shredded, in almost nonsensical ways. The 182-foor transmission tower had collapsed. There also was inexplicable debris that didn’t seem to be from now demolished the plain brick factory-style building, scattered pieces of mismatched bricks and woodwork that didn’t seem to relate to anything. Even individual pieces of luggage and scattered personal effects.
The earth, also, had been bowed upward in ways and had large crevices in it that made it incredible difficult to cross. Part of the surrounding ground also had collapsed. No rescue attempt or a serious investigation was ever made, due to the dangerous nature of the site. It eventually became a giant sinkhole.
The contemp Nikola Tesla was never seen again, and was presumed dead in whatever had happened, which the contemps quickly realized extended far underground. As Tesla had been building underground, and had boasted about how Wardenclyffe would ‘have a grip on the earth so the whole of this globe can quiver’, it was presumed whatever had happened had been a very badly designed experiment causing basically a localized earthquake. Nikola’s financial backer, J. P. Morgan, at first considered filing suit to claim ownership of the site, but upon visiting the location, abandoned his claim because he was convinced that nothing whatsoever could be recovered from whatever horrific accident Tesla had caused that ended his own life.
But what had happened wasn’t the fault of the younger’s experiment. The older Tesla had managed to lock onto the temporal flux generated that night, and bring the entire hotel back in time, to that exact point.
This would have been much more obvious had the entire 43-story New Yorker Hotel appear intact above ground, but the temporal relocation was centered on the temporal flux itself, which was created 120 feet underground at the bottom of the shaft designed to generate and contain the energy that Telsa would have later dubbed ‘Prana energy’. That, combined with the fact the other center of that temporal relocation presumably was the 24th floor of the New Yorker Hotel, meant that three-fourths of said hotel ended up embedded mostly underground, shoving the dirt outward and leaving empty space into which a sinkhole eventually formed, and the completely uncalibrated journey had already twisted and shook the hotel so badly that it arrived in pieces, with more pieces the farther out. So the eight or nine stories that arrived above ground, superimposed on the factory-style building of Wardenclyffe and the bottom of the 180-foot-tall broadcasting tower standing above that building, completely tore themselves apart and were fairly unrecognizable as an additional building.
It’s unknown how the older Nikola Tesla, along with Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Dr. Marie Equi, managed to extract themselves from that disaster, or what state they were in, or even how they survived the trip. They must have planned for the trip very carefully, perhaps built a safe room of some sort. It’s not even clear they understood the entire hotel would go with them. It seems incredibly lucky they all made it.
But they did.
As an aside, this is literally impossible as understood by temporal scientists. There is absolutely no understanding of temporal theory that could possibly allowed this to have happened.