101-648: The Millennium Times Square New York (formerly the Hotel Macklowe and the Millennium Broadway ) is a hotel at 133 and 145 West 44th Street , between Times Square and Sixth Avenue , in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City . Operated by Millennium & Copthorne Hotels , the hotel has 750 guest units, as well as a conference center with 33 conference rooms. The hotel incorporates
202-575: A Broadway theater called the Hudson Theatre into its base. The hotel is composed of two guestroom towers flanking the Hudson Theatre. The original 48-story tower west of the theater was designed by William Derman and Perkins & Will , while the 22-story annex east of the theater was designed by Stonehill & Taylor . The original hotel tower contains a lobby with a passageway connecting two entrances on 44th and 45th Streets. In addition, there
303-482: A 1991 application to demolish the house and replace it with an AIDS hospice with financing from the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe . Time Magazine was started at 141 East 17th Street. 18th Street has a local subway station at the crossing with Seventh Avenue , served by the 1 (and the 2 at late nights) on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line . There used to be an 18th Street station on
404-504: A Broadway theater until the 1960s and subsequently served as a porn theater, a nightclub called the Savoy, and a movie theater. As early as the mid-1970s, U.S. Steel was attempting to redevelop the surrounding city block. Harry Macklowe acquired several properties on the block in the mid-1980s, including the Hudson Theatre in May 1984. He wanted to develop a 600,000-square-foot (56,000 m) tower on
505-655: A Doubletree by Hilton Hotel . At the end of the affiliation period, the Millennium Times Square was to become a Hilton hotel. The hotel briefly closed in early 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City but reopened in June 2020. In June 2021, Hilton abruptly ended its affiliation, and Millennium Hotels and Resorts hired Highgate to manage the hotel instead. In 1989, Paul Goldberger wrote for The New York Times that
606-594: A dead end, just before Avenue B, and runs to Greenwich Avenue, and the third part is from Eighth Avenue to Tenth Avenue . 14th Street is a main numbered street in Manhattan. It begins at Avenue C and ends at West Street. Its length is 3.4 km (2.1 mi). It has six subway stations: From Avenue A or Avenue C to West Street there is service M14A/D bus. At 6th Avenue, there is a PATH stop with service to Midtown Manhattan and New Jersey . Traffic on 15th Street moves from east to west. The street formerly started at
707-575: A depth of 100 feet (30 m). The surrounding area is part of Manhattan 's Theater District and contains many Broadway theatres . On the same block, 1530 Broadway is to the west and the Hotel Gerard and Belasco Theatre are to the east. Other nearby buildings include the High School of Performing Arts to the northeast, the Lyceum Theatre and 1540 Broadway to the north, One Astor Plaza to
808-491: A developer and we do the architecture ourselves". Several architectural critics, social media influencers, and journalists have commented on 432 Park Avenue's "ugly" design. After 432 Park Avenue was completed in the late 2010s, there were allegations of structural deficiencies, such as leaks and defective elevators, in the building. A proposed Macklowe Properties building, Tower Fifth , has similarly received backlash for its unattractive design; several critics claimed Macklowe
909-457: A development for the homeless. Initially, Macklowe had been planning an office tower for the site, but that had been delayed due to the controversy over the illegal demolition. Garofalo was found guilty of reckless endangerment, but he was given a conditional discharge absolving him from all charges if he did not get in any other legal trouble for a year. After being acquitted of perjury in May 1986, Garofalo sued Macklowe for defamation. In 1988, on
1010-600: A nationwide recession. To promote the convention center during mid-1990, the Hotel Macklowe ran a promotion in which large groups were allowed to use the meeting facilities for free on their second day. Among the events in the conference center was the World Chess Championship 1990 , where Russian Grandmasters Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov competed in New York City's first World Chess Championship since 1907 . The conference center also hosted events such as
1111-463: A number of New York buildings including 400 Madison Avenue , 540 Madison Avenue, Drake Hotel (which he demolished to make way for 432 Park Avenue ), Hotel Macklowe , and Two Grand Central Tower. In 1985, Macklowe was fined $ 2 million for demolishing four buildings in Times Square in the middle of the night. In 2003, Macklowe bought General Motors Building for a record $ 1.4 billion. The value of
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#17328445973021212-532: A pedestrian road for a quarter of a block and turns back into a street. Then it runs the rest of the way to 12th Avenue. It runs on the north side of Hudson Yards and the south side of the Empire State Building . 35th Street runs from FDR Drive to Eleventh Avenue. Notable locations include East River Ferry , Mercy University Manhattan Campus, and the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center . 36th Street runs from
1313-512: A quarter-million dollars per day. The Millennium Premier annex opened in 1999. The original hotel was also renovated in the early 2000s. In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in 2001, the hotel received more corporate tenants, though this could also be attributed in part to the renovation. CDL had requested a tax abatement for the construction of the Millennium Premier, arguing that it
1414-721: A real estate broker. In 1959, he married Linda Burg, a doctor's daughter. She worked as an editorial assistant at Doubleday. Together, they moved into a garden apartment in Brooklyn, where Harry developed an interest in the landlord’s brownstone-renovation business, and the landlord encouraged 21-year-old Harry, steering him into the job as a real estate broker. Macklowe quickly transitioned from broker to builder. Keenly interested in architecture and modern art, he soon became known for developing sleek modernistic buildings such as Metropolitan Tower , as well as for his starkly white minimalist offices. His firm, Macklowe Properties, owns or has owned
1515-484: A reel of highlights from the Banff Television Festival in 1991, as well as a publishing conference in 1992. The hotel's management wished to attract fashion shows to the conference center as well, despite the relatively small size of Hudson Theatre's stage. The conference center was particularly popular for announcements of corporate acquisitions and mergers. By early 1993, hospitality analysts predicted that
1616-441: A square tower topped by a striking gilded pyramid. Twenty-Seventh Street passes one block north of Madison Square Park and culminates at Bellevue Hospital on First Avenue . The segment of 27th Street east of Second Avenue is a pedestrian mall and passes through Bellevue South Park . There are three local subway stations on 28th Street: Also: 30th Street runs uninterrupted across the island from 12th Avenue to FDR Drive. It
1717-526: A wardrobe service for frequent guests, as well as the ticket reservation services within guest rooms. One of the hotel's promotions included an offering of Broadway tickets and a dinner, while another provided personalized bathrobes with guests' initials. Senior citizens were given discounts. The adjacent Hudson Theatre was renovated for $ 7 million. The theater was to serve as an auditorium for independent events, including corporate meetings, fashion shows, and product launches. The hotel's opening had coincided with
1818-481: Is a bar, restaurant, and fitness center in the original tower. The conference center in the lower stories extended into the Hudson Theatre, which in 2017 became a Broadway theater. The 22-story annex is branded as the Millennium Premier New York Times Square . The hotel's original tower was developed by Harry Macklowe as the Hotel Macklowe. Though Macklowe had acquired land for the hotel in
1919-545: Is a pedestrian plaza between Third Avenue and Lexington Avenue , and ends at Madison. Then West 24th and 25th streets continue from Fifth Avenue to Eleventh Avenue (25th) or Twelfth Avenue (24th). 26th Street is all in one part and after reaching FDR Drive bends and runs parallel to FDR Drive up to 30th Street. 27th Street is a one-way street that runs from Second Avenue to the West Side Highway with an interruption between Eighth Avenue and Tenth Avenue . It
2020-499: Is alternatively known as Police Officer Anthony Sanchez Way. Along the northern perimeter of Gramercy Park, between Gramercy Park East and Gramercy Park West, 21st Street is known as Gramercy Park North. 23rd Street is another main numbered street in Manhattan. It begins at Avenue C/FDR Drive and ends at Eleventh Avenue. Its length is 3.1 km/1.9m. It has two-way travel. On 23rd Street there are five local subway stations providing uptown and downtown service only: Additionally, there
2121-402: Is at 45th Street. The 44th Street entrance is flanked by silver sconces and contains a canopy. The rest of the hotel was designed in a modern style because, according to William Derman, it would appeal to "high-tech clients". The facade of the upper stories is made of dark glass. A wall of Deer Isle granite was built in front of the lower stories of the annex, also complementing the theater; it
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#17328445973022222-452: Is called St Mark's Place, but it is counted in the length below. The M8 bus route operates eastbound on 8th Street and westbound on 9th Street between Avenue A and Sixth Avenue. 8th Street has one subway station: Eighth Street–New York University , served by the N , R and W Trains. ( N late nights and weekends, R all times except late nights, and W all times except late nights and weekends.) Amos, Hammond, and Troy Streets were in
2323-403: Is comparatively plain in design and has little decoration. Macklowe acquired the unused air rights of the Hudson Theatre to make the original tower taller than would normally be allowed under zoning laws. The first seven stories of the hotel are made of stone, designed in a classical style to complement the Hudson Theatre. The main entrance is at 44th Street, while the convention center entrance
2424-424: Is demarcated at Broadway below 8th Street , and at Fifth Avenue at 8th Street and above. The numbered streets carry crosstown traffic. In general, but with numerous exceptions, even-numbered streets are one-way eastbound and odd-numbered streets are one-way westbound. Most wider streets, and a few of the narrow ones, carry two-way traffic. Although the numbered streets begin just north of East Houston Street in
2525-472: Is for pedestrians only and resumes at Szold Place, which runs from north to south toward 10th Street as a continuation of the flow of traffic from East 12th Street which runs east to west from Avenue D to Szold Place. Additionally, Little West 12th Street runs parallel to West 13th Street from West Street to the northeast corner of Ninth Avenue and Gansevoort Street. 13th Street is in three parts. The first runs from Avenue C to Avenue D. The second starts at
2626-524: Is interrupted by Union Square It picks up again at Union Square West, and continues unimpeded to Eleventh Avenue at the Hudson River. Sights along 15th Street include: the southern border of Stuyvesant Square ; the landmarked Friends Meeting House and Seminary at Rutherford Place; Irving Plaza at Irving Place ; the Daryl Roth Theatre in the landmarked Union Square Savings Bank Building, across
2727-506: Is most noted for its strip between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues , known as Club Row because it features numerous nightclubs and lounges. Some of the most notable venues are Bungalow 8 , Marquee, Suzie Wong, Cain, and Pink Elephant. Since 2011, starting at 530 W. 27th and continuing down almost the entire rest of the block, the former warehouse spaces of clubs Twilo , Guesthouse, Home, Bed, and more have been repurposed by British immersive theater group Punchdrunk as The McKittrick Hotel,
2828-534: Is on the east side of the Hudson Theatre and is designed with 125 units. The annex has six units per floor on average. Each of the units has European tubs, full-height windows, three telephone lines, a modem hookup, and a fax machine. The public corridors of each floor were originally decorated with color photographs from The New York Times . There is also a mezzanine containing the Premier Lounge and Boardroom, which serves breakfast and evening cocktails. As of 2021,
2929-472: Is the M23 Select Bus Service , running through the length of 23rd Street. 24th Street is in three parts. A small portion of 24th Street exists between First Avenue and East Midtown Plaza ending at a dead end before Second Avenue, a second portion is between East Midtown Plaza and Madison Avenue , ending because of Madison Square Park . 25th Street, which is in three parts, starts at FDR Drive ,
3030-798: Is the southern terminus of Dyer Avenue and thus also of the Lincoln Tunnel 's eastern approach. There is also an elevator with access to the High Line on the West Side. Tisch Hospital is bounded on the south by 30th Street between 1st Avenue and FDR Drive. 31st Street begins on the West Side at the West Side Yard , while 32nd Street, which includes a segment officially known as Korea Way between Fifth Avenue and Broadway in Manhattan's Koreatown , begins at
3131-668: The Blackstone Group . He used $ 50 million of his own money and financed the rest with $ 7 billion in short-term loans (due in February 2008) from Deutsche Bank and the publicly traded hedge fund the Fortress Investment Group . In early 2008, he failed to refinance a $ 5.8 billion loan from Deutsche Bank and lost all seven buildings. Among the buildings forfeited were the General Motors Building (which collateralized
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3232-499: The Bowery . Peretz Square, a small triangular sliver park where Houston Street, First Street and First Avenue meet marks the spot where the grid takes hold. East 2nd Street begins just north of East Houston Street at Avenue C and also continues to the Bowery. The east end of East 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 7th streets is Avenue D , with East 6th Street continuing further eastward and connecting to
3333-654: The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 . These streets do not run exactly east–west, because the grid plan is aligned with the Hudson River , rather than with the cardinal directions . Thus, the majority of the Manhattan grid's "west" is approximately 29 degrees north of true west; the angle differs above 155th Street, where the grid initially ended. The grid now covers the length of the island from 14th Street north. All numbered streets carry an East or West prefix – for example, East 10th Street or West 10th Street – which
3434-505: The East River . In 2009, the two-way section of 10th Street between Avenue A and the East River had bicycle markings and sharrows installed, but it still has no dedicated bike lane. West 10th Street was previously named Amos Street for Charles Christopher Amos, who is also the namesake of Charles Street and Christopher Street . The end of West 10th Street toward the Hudson River was once
3535-455: The East Village , they generally do not extend west into Greenwich Village , which already had established, named streets when the grid plan was laid out by the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 . Some streets in that area that do continue farther west change direction before reaching the Hudson River. The highest numbered street on Manhattan Island is 220th Street, but Marble Hill is also within
3636-650: The FDR Drive , but most of the street between the Drive and Avenue C was permanently closed, as was the 15th Street exit from the Drive, after the September 11 attacks , due to the presence of the Con Edison East River Generating Station there. Only Con Edison personnel have access to the closed portion. The street is then interrupted by Stuyvesant Town from Avenue C to First Avenue . It then continues to Union Square East (Park Avenue South) where it
3737-544: The FDR Drive . The west end of most of these streets is the Bowery and Third Avenue , except for 3rd Street (formerly Amity Place), which continues to Sixth Avenue ; and 4th Street, which extends west and then north to 13th Street in Greenwich Village . Great Jones Street connects East 3rd to West 3rd. East 5th Street goes west to Cooper Square, but is interrupted between Avenues B and C by The Earth School and Public School 364, and between First Avenue and Avenue A by
3838-474: The Greenwich Village street grid and continue to West Street on the Hudson River . Because West 4th Street turns northward at Sixth Avenue, it intersects 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th streets in the West Village . The M8 bus operates on 10th Street in both directions between Avenue D and Avenue A , and eastbound between West Street and Sixth Avenue. 10th Street has an eastbound bike lane from West Street to
3939-800: The High Line near Tenth Avenue ; Chelsea Market between Ninth and Tenth Avenues; the Google Building between Eighth and Ninth Avenues; the row houses at 5, 7, 9, 17, 19, 21 & 23 West 16th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues; the Bank of the Metropolis at Union Square West; and St. George's Church at Rutherford Place. 16th Street is 1.8 mi (2.9 km) long. 17th, 18th and 19th streets start at First Avenue and finish at Eleventh Avenue. On 17th Street ( 40°44′08″N 73°59′12″W / 40.735532°N 73.986575°W / 40.735532; -73.986575 ), traffic runs one way along
4040-540: The IRT Lexington Avenue Line at the crossing with Park Avenue South . This street is home to the IAC Building , designed by Frank Gehry . 19th Street travels west for most of its length, except between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues the travel direction is reversed and traffic flows east. 20th Street starts at Avenue C, and 21st and 22nd Streets begin at First Avenue. They all end at Eleventh Avenue. Travel on
4141-472: The Old Grapevine tavern from the 1700s to its demolition in the early 20th century. 12th Street is in two parts. Traffic on most of 12th Street runs from west to east. The first segment of West 12th Street runs southwest to northeast from West Street to Greenwich Street, then turns straight west to east. At Fifth Avenue, West 12th Street becomes East 12th Street, and ends at Avenue C. One block of 12th Street
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4242-639: The FDR Drive to Eleventh Avenue. It runs on the south side of the Queens–Midtown Tunnel's Manhattan entrance/exit and over the Lincoln Tunnel's Manhattan entrance/exit. Notable locations on 36th Street are the American Copper Buildings , Sniffen Court , The Morgan Library & Museum , Gotham Hall, and the Javits Center . 37th Street runs from the FDR Drive to Eleventh Avenue. It runs on
4343-472: The Greenwich Village street grid before 1811. In the middle 19th century they were renamed as the western parts of West 10th, 11th and 12th Streets, respectively. 10th Street ( 40°44′03″N 74°00′11″W / 40.7342580°N 74.0029670°W / 40.7342580; -74.0029670 ) begins at the FDR Drive and Avenue C . West of Sixth Avenue , it turns southward about 40 degrees to join
4444-450: The Guild site with a 19-story hotel annex containing 130 rooms, and it offered to pay $ 80,000 for asbestos remediation of the site. The acquisition was finalized in May 1997; CDL announced it would spend $ 28 million on the annex, or $ 230,000 a room. The hotel was temporarily partially closed after an accident during the construction of 4 Times Square , one block south; the closure cost the hotel
4545-415: The Hotel Macklowe "stands as New York's proudest monument to the art of the deal." The following year, Goldberger wrote that the lobby "is a spectacular interior set within a mediocre new tower of dark green glass on a stone base that appears to have been designed for another building altogether", though the guest rooms were less impressive to him. Terry Trucco, a hotel critic for The New York Times , repeated
4646-418: The Hotel Macklowe and several other New York City hotels were facing financial issues that would force them to be placed for sales. Later that year, Macklowe defaulted on several million dollars of debt on his other properties. Chemical Bank took over the hotel in February 1994 after Macklowe defaulted on the hotel's mortgage. The bank immediately sought to sell it. In September 1994, Chemical arranged to sell
4747-578: The Hotel Macklowe was built, it was variously cited as containing 635, 637, or 638 rooms. Each room had a television that allowed visitors to look for and purchase tickets for airlines, theaters, sports events, and other attractions. The service was branded as "MackTel" and could also be used to request room service . The rooms' decorations were designed with a black and tan color scheme, cherry-wood headboards, and Art Deco armchairs. Rooms were also designed with marble-topped writing desks that contained minibars underneath. Harry Macklowe's then-wife Linda decorated
4848-723: The Hotel Macklowe's name to the Millennium Broadway in October 1995, with Millennium & Copthorne Hotels operating the hotel. CDL acquired the adjacent Newspaper Guild building for $ 3.4 million in December 1996. The Newspaper Guild had a three-story building and 54,000 square feet (5,000 m) of air rights, but they had previously refused to sell their air rights, and these could no longer be transferred to nearby sites. The Guild building had been fully occupied as late as 1991, but it had since lost most of its tenants. CDL wanted to redevelop
4949-536: The Hudson Theatre. The section west of the theater was originally developed by Harry Macklowe as the Hotel Macklowe. The building has 48 stories according to the New York City Department of City Planning (DCP), and a height of 481 feet (147 m). Macklowe's in-house architect William Derman, as well as Perkins & Will , were responsible for the final design. The firm of Gruzen Samton Steinglass had been involved in preliminary designs, but that company
5050-608: The Javits Center. Harry Macklowe Harry B. Macklowe (born 1937) is an American real estate developer and investor based in New York City. Macklowe was born to a Jewish family, the son of a garment executive from Westchester County , New York. He graduated from New Rochelle High School in 1955, and attended the University of Alabama , New York University , and the School of Visual Arts before dropping out, in 1960, to become
5151-717: The Millennium Premier New York Times Square has "premier rooms" of 330 square feet (31 m), "deluxe rooms" of 365 square feet (33.9 m), and "executive rooms" of 405 square feet (37.6 m). The hotel's conference center is placed on the first five floors of the hotel. and covers 100,000 square feet (9,300 m). It was originally known as the Macklowe Conference Center and included 33 conference rooms. These are composed of 12 smaller rooms, 15 medium-sized rooms, and six auditorium spaces. The rooms could fit between five and 125 people. When
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#17328445973025252-503: The Village View Apartments. East 6th Street contains many Indian restaurants between First and Second Avenues and is sometimes known as Curry Row . 8th and 9th streets run parallel to each other, beginning at Avenue D, interrupted by Tompkins Square Park at Avenue B , resuming at Avenue A and continuing to Sixth Avenue. West 8th Street is an important local shopping street. 8th Street between Avenue A and Third Avenue
5353-477: The ban on developing the site. Some of the council members who had voted to overturn the ban said they did not realize they had voted to do so. Harrison J. Goldin , the New York City Comptroller , ordered an investigation into the matter, saying Macklowe had signed a legal agreement in which he had accepted the ban. Goldin also urged the city government to issue a "stop work" order on the hotel. By then,
5454-669: The borough of Manhattan, so the highest street number in the borough is 228th Street. The numbering system continues in the Bronx , up to 263rd Street, though east of Van Cortlandt Park the system ends at 243rd Street. The lowest numbered street in Manhattan is East 1st Street, which runs through Alphabet City near East Houston Street . There are also three streets numbered as First, Second and Third Place in Battery Park City . Download coordinates as: East 1st Street begins just north of East Houston Street at Avenue A and continues to
5555-421: The conference center. There is also a catering service. The conference center extends into the Hudson Theatre, which was converted into the conference center's auditorium. A new deck, dressing rooms, and stage rigging were added to the theater, and a projectionists ' booth and a Dolby sound system were installed as part of the conversion. The auditorium has an orchestra level, boxes, two balconies, promenades on
5656-519: The corner of Broadway and West 31st Street is the Grand Hotel . The former Hotel Pierrepont was located at 43 West 32nd Street, The Continental NYC tower is at the corner of Sixth Avenue and 32nd Street. 29 East 32nd Street was the location of the first building owned by the Grolier Club between 1890 and 1917. 33rd Street runs uninterrupted from First Avenue to Seventh Avenue where it turns into
5757-485: The council to protest the fact that Macklowe planned to name the development "Hotel Macklowe". Protests over the demolitions continued in later years, as in 1998, when artists posted signs on lampposts outside the hotel referencing the demolitions. Before the hotel's opening, Swig indicated that the hotel might charge $ 125 per room per night. Swig indicated in November 1989 that there were already 100,000 overnight bookings for
5858-469: The demolition. The city government sought to imprison the responsible parties, and Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau indicted both Goldman and Garofalo. Morgenthau sent the case to a grand jury , saying the defendants' failure to disconnect utility lines had constituted reckless endangerment. Macklowe paid a $ 2 million fine, and the city gave the money to the Franciscans , which used it to fund
5959-434: The early 1980s, he was penalized after illegally demolishing four structures on the site in 1985, and he could not develop the site until 1987. The original tower opened in early 1990 and incorporated the Hudson Theatre into the conference center. Chemical Bank acquired the hotel from Macklowe through foreclosure in 1994, reselling to CDL Hotels , which renamed it the Millennium Broadway. The Millennium Times Square New York
6060-641: The entrance to Penn Station and Madison Square Garden . On the East Side , both streets end at Second Avenue at Kips Bay Towers and NYU Medical Center which occupy the area between 30th and 34th streets. The Catholic church of St. Francis of Assisi is situated at 135–139 West 31st Street. At 210 West is the Capuchin Monastery of St. John the Baptist, part of St. John the Baptist Church on 30th Street. At
6161-494: The high-profile divorce, the pair's extensive collection of artwork from artists such as Alberto Giacometti , Mark Rothko and Cy Twombly was auctioned off by Sotheby's in two parts as part of a court order in November 2021. Estimated at around a $ 600 million value, the first half of the collection sold for even more; at auction, it brought in $ 676 million. Sotheby's called it the most valuable single-owner auction ever conducted. On May 16, 2022, when Sotheby's held part two of
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#17328445973026262-457: The home of Newgate Prison, New York City's first prison and the United States' second. 11th Street is in two parts. It is interrupted by the block containing Grace Church between Broadway and Fourth Avenue . East 11th Street runs from Fourth Avenue to Avenue C and runs past Webster Hall . West 11th Street runs from Broadway to West Street. 11th Street and Sixth Avenue was the location of
6363-625: The hotel as originally scheduled, he would not have been granted the bonus. Macklowe also received $ 3.3 million in restitution from the city government after the New York Court of Appeals found the SRO moratorium to be illegal. He also received tax abatements under the Industrial and Commercial Development Incentive program. The project was managed by Kent Swig, who was Macklowe Properties' vice president and Harry Macklowe's son-in-law. McCaffrey & McCall
6464-409: The hotel opened, each of the meeting rooms had custom furniture and lights, as well as modern audiovisual equipment. The rooms also had leather chairs and their own thermostats. The conference center as a whole had word-processing and secretarial services, fax machines, photocopiers, photographers, and a graphics studio. Internet kiosks occupy the second floor, and the roof had satellites to supplement
6565-468: The hotel to Kwek Leng Beng of Singaporean chain CDL International for about $ 100 million. The transaction valued the hotel at nearly $ 164,000 per room. At that point, half of the hotel's revenue came from conferences; the services included a $ 100,000 charge for broadcasting an event to live attendees at ten other sites. After buying the hotel, Kwek hired outside management to operate it. CDL changed
6666-723: The hotel. Macklowe Hotel opened in May 1990. It was one of three new hotels around Times Square at the time, the others being the Crowne Plaza Times Square Manhattan and the Embassy Suites Times Square. Following the previous year's attack of a Central Park jogger , the hotel offered a paid service wherein a personal trainer would accompany guests while jogging in Central Park . The Hotel Macklowe advertised it as New York City's "only institutionalized hotel jogging service". The hotel's other services included
6767-420: The hotel. The larger lot at 145 West 44th Street covers 16,820 square feet (1,563 m), with a frontage of 117.42 feet (35.79 m) on 44th Street and a depth of 200 feet (61 m). That site includes the Hudson Theatre , which is between the two wings of the hotel. The smaller lot at 133 West 44th Street covers 6,025 square feet (559.7 m), with a frontage of 60.25 feet (18.36 m) on 44th Street and
6868-469: The last block of the 20th, 21st, and 22nd streets, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues, is in the opposite direction than it is on the rest of the respective street. 20th Street is very wide from the Avenue C to First Avenue. Along the southern perimeter of Gramercy Park , between Gramercy Park East and Gramercy Park West, 20th Street is known as Gramercy Park South. Between Second and Third Avenues, 21st Street
6969-533: The loan) and the Credit Lyonnais Building . Several Macklowe developments have received criticism when they were developed. For instance, when Metropolitan Tower was developed in the late 1980s, Paul Goldberger called it "the least respectful of the architectural traditions" in its vicinity, The comments about Metropolitan Tower in particular led Macklowe to express dissatisfaction at architectural criticism directed toward his buildings "just because I'm
7070-490: The lobby contains a waiting area on the western wall and the Hudson Theatre on the eastern wall. The center of the lobby has a concierge, hotel check-in desk, stairs, and elevators, while the northern end of the lobby includes a gift shop. The walls contain Day-Night , a pair of oil paintings by Carlo Maria Mariani , which depict an awake man and a sleeping woman. The lobby is also decorated in wood and black marble. Derman designed
7171-712: The north side of the Queens–Midtown Tunnel's Manhattan entrance/exit and over the Lincoln Tunnel's Manhattan entrance/exit. Notable locations on 37th Street are the Corinthian, the Morgan Library & Museum , Gotham Hall, and the Javits Center . 38th Street runs from FDR Drive to Eleventh Avenue. It runs on the south side of the Lincoln Tunnel's Manhattan entrance/exit. Notable Locations on 38th Street are The Corinthian , The Town House Hotel, 425 Fifth Avenue , and
7272-517: The original decorations, which included gray-and-black carpets evocative of Rockefeller Center 's interiors. The convention-center lobby was designed with mahogany, a reference to the decorative scheme at the Four Seasons Restaurant . The elevator cabs were clad in mahogany and steel. Because the original hotel and the Hudson Theatre were already ornately decorated with marble, the Premier annex
7373-420: The other side of the park at Union Square East (Park Avenue South), but is shortly stopped again by Stuyvesant Square from between Second and Third Avenues (Rutherford Place) to between First and Second Avenues (Perlman Place). At First Avenue, it is interrupted by Stuyvesant Town , and starts up again at Avenue C . It then dead ends between that avenue and the FDR Drive . Sights on 16th Street include:
7474-604: The rooms with prints from architects such as Michael Graves , Zaha Hadid , Arata Isozaki , Rem Koolhaas , Daniel Libeskind , Morphosis Architects , and Bernard Tschumi . As of 2021, the Millennium Times Square New York contains 625 rooms. These consist of "standard rooms" of 238 square feet (22.1 m) each, "superior rooms" of 240 square feet (22 m) each, and "deluxe rooms" of 350 square feet (33 m) each. The rooms are spread through floors 16 through 52. Higher units contain views of Times Square and
7575-521: The sale, the auction house hit what it called a record for a private art collection sold at auction, bringing the total to $ 922 million, with fees. The Macklowes have two children: William S. Macklowe and Elizabeth Macklowe. William replaced his father as President of Macklowe Properties in 2008. He and his wife belong to the Jewish Center of the Hamptons synagogue. In 1993, William married and divorced
7676-420: The sentiment, saying: "The surprise is that this enormous 638-room hotel has an imposing sense of style". A Los Angeles Times review described the hotel as having "all the luxuries of the major chain hotels but none of the tackiness". 44th Street (Manhattan) The New York City borough of Manhattan contains 214 numbered east–west streets ranging from 1st to 228th, the majority of them designated in
7777-460: The site from being developed for four years; this action was meant to deter other developers from making similar demolitions for their own projects. The City Council quietly overturned the ban on developing the 44th Street site in January 1987, two years early. The administration of mayor Ed Koch had suggested the ban be overturned because of concerns that the ban was unconstitutional. The SRO moratorium
7878-535: The site of their theatrical experience Sleep No More . Heading east, 27th Street passes through Chelsea Park between Tenth and Ninth Avenues , with the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) on the corner of Eighth . On Madison Avenue between 26th and 27th streets, on the site of the old Madison Square Garden , is the New York Life Building , built in 1928 and designed by Cass Gilbert , with
7979-413: The site. The development of the lot started with a highly controversial demolition. Macklowe paid Mitran Associates $ 380,000 to demolish four structures at 143–149 West 44th Street during the night of January 7, 1985; at the time, Sol Goldman was selling him the buildings, but the sale had not yet been finalized. The demolition was carried out without either obtaining the necessary permits or disconnecting
8080-415: The skyline of New York City. he "Millennium Suites" are at the top of the original hotel tower and cover 580 square feet (54 m) each. The rooms have writing desks, European tubs, and full-height windows. On the 16th floor is a private fitness center. It contains a massage room, steam room, and a sauna, as well as a room containing weights and exercise machines. The 22-story Premier at Millennium Broadway
8181-476: The skyscraper soon doubled after he persuaded Apple to build a subterranean Apple retail store beneath the building's plaza , an idea he personally and successfully pitched to Steve Jobs . Jobs then proposed that the entrance to the sunken store be a 32-foot tall-glass cube, which the city approved and was opened to the public in 2006. In February 2007, during the peak of the real estate market, Macklowe purchased seven Manhattan skyscrapers for $ 6.8 billion from
8282-531: The street from the Zeckendorf Towers at Union Square East; the Google Building between Eighth and Ninth Avenues; Chelsea Market , between Ninth and Tenth Avenues; and the High Line near Tenth Avenue. 15th Street is 1.9 mi (3 km) in length. Traffic on 16th Street moves from west to east. It starts at Eleventh Avenue at the Hudson River, and runs until it is interrupted at Union Square West (Broadway) by Union Square . It picks up again on
8383-435: The street, from east to west excepting the stretch between Broadway and Park Avenue South, where traffic runs in both directions. It forms the northern borders of both Union Square (between Broadway and Park Avenue South ) and Stuyvesant Square . Composer Antonín Dvořák 's New York home was located at 327 East 17th Street, near Perlman Place. The house was razed by Beth Israel Medical Center after it received approval of
8484-509: The structure had been built to either the 25th story or had surpassed the 30th story. Koch had given conflicting explanations, first saying the ban had been revoked through legal channels, then suggested that council members did not read the legislation closely. A critic in The New York Times said "the law was repealed, almost as furtively as Mr. Macklowe's crew had cleared the site". At least one City Council member, Carol Greitzer , wanted
8585-531: The theater for $ 1.2 million. In December 2015, the Ambassador Theatre Group signed a lease with Millennium & Copthorne to convert the Hudson Theatre back to a Broadway venue. The Hudson Theatre was reopened as a Broadway theater in February 2017. The hotel became affiliated with Hilton Hotels , under the Doubletree brand, starting in June 2019. It was rebranded as Millennium Times Square New York,
8686-473: The theater. After its conversion into a Broadway theater in 2017, the Hudson Theatre has had 970 seats. The Hudson Theatre opened in 1903. It was originally operated by Henry B. Harris , and then his widow Renee Harris , until the Great Depression . It then served as a network radio studio for CBS from 1934 to 1937 and as an NBC television studio from 1949 to 1960. The Hudson operated intermittently as
8787-492: The third anniversary of the demolition, the New York Supreme Court ruled that Garofalo had to pay more than $ 1.5 million in damages to the New York City government. The ruling judge said: "That nobody was hurt and other property and people were not damaged is purely fortuitous." Development of the tower was deadlocked for years due to legal troubles. A New York City Council ordinance had prohibited any structures on
8888-444: The three seating levels, and a large stage behind the proscenium arch. The auditorium's width is slightly greater than its depth, and the auditorium is designed with plaster decorations in high relief . The auditorium had a capacity of 700 guests when it was being used for theater-style events, but this could be converted to a banquet-style space for 300 guests. In addition to independent corporate events, weddings could be hosted in
8989-424: The utility lines. Macklowe had been motivated by a desire to avoid a pending moratorium that would have prevented the demolition or conversion of SROs across the city for 18 months, which would take effect on January 9. Macklowe had told John Tassi to tell Eddie Garofalo, who headed Mitran, that the buildings were being demolished on Goldman's behalf. This would subsequently lead to perjury charges in association with
9090-636: The west, 1500 Broadway to the southwest, and the Chatwal New York hotel and the Town Hall to the south. Among the structures that had previously occupied the site were two single room occupancy (SRO) hotels at 143 and 149 West 44th Street, as well as residences. The eastern section of the site, 133 West 44th Street, had been occupied by the Newspaper Guild from 1946 to the late 1990s. The Millennium Times Square New York consists of two wings flanking
9191-456: Was "ruining" the New York skyline. On January 4, 1959, Macklowe married Linda Burg. After over 50 years of marriage in 2016, Burg filed for divorce. In 2019 after a contentious, $ 2 billion divorce, he remarried to Patricia Lazar-Landeau. Macklowe put a massive picture of himself and his new wife on the corner of 432 Park Avenue, in what was widely seen as an insult to his former wife. Following
9292-525: Was affiliated with the DoubleTree brand of Hilton Hotels & Resorts from 2019 to 2021, after which Highgate was hired to manage the hotel. The Millennium Times Square New York is at 133–145 West 44th Street, between Seventh Avenue and Sixth Avenue near Times Square , in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City . The hotel is split across two land lots , each with a separate wing of
9393-435: Was also designed with 60,000 square feet (5,600 m) of office space. The original hotel was designed with a superstructure made of concrete. The hotel has 750 rooms across its two towers: 625 in the original hotel and 125 in the Premier annex. Within the original hotel building, the two entrances are connected by a passageway running the entire block, which functions as a privately owned public space . The southern end of
9494-503: Was clad in simpler marble. The hotel was designed with one bar and one full-service restaurant. Ali Barker was the original executive chef for the hotel's restaurant. Originally, the restaurant was known as Restaurant Charlotte, which offered both full-service meals and afternoon tea. When the hotel passed under Millennium ownership, the restaurant space became the Bugis Street Brasserie and Bar, serving Singaporean cuisine. When
9595-523: Was designed as a standalone slab rather than as a portion of the annex's facade. The entirety of the annex is set back from the stone wall, recessed from the lot line. According to Paul David Taylor of Stonehill & Taylor, the zoning regulations would have required a setback at a low height if the hotel had been built out to the lot line. According to the DCP, the hotel has 471,985 square feet (43,848.8 m) of gross floor area . The original hotel building
9696-419: Was developing a hotel on the 44th Street site. A spokesperson for the New York City Department of Buildings said at the time that, since the SRO moratorium had expired, Macklowe was allowed to develop the site. In addition, Macklowe had been granted a zoning bonus that allowed the hotel to be built with 20 percent more space than the maximum that was normally allowed in the zoning district. Had Macklowe commenced
9797-460: Was extended by five years at a council vote that year. The New York Daily News reported at the time that the moratorium would prevent the redevelopment of the Lenox Hotel at 149 West 44th Street, which stood in the way of Macklowe's project. Later that year, Macklowe paid the city $ 2.65 million so he could finish razing the 29,400-square-foot (2,730 m) Lenox Hotel site. By early 1988, Macklowe
9898-543: Was hired as the marketing agent for the hotel. Because this was to be the first hotel in the Macklowe chain, all staff had to be newly hired, unlike in more established chains where more senior staff was transferred from other hotels. During the hotel's construction, models of guestrooms and conference rooms were built on the Hudson Theatre's stage. In January 1989, the media reported how the City Council had previously overturned
9999-476: Was part of the existing hotel because it did not have separate mechanical system and it was connected to the Hudson Theatre at several locations. The city initially denied the tax abatement, conceding the Premier annex was separate from the original hotel, and the New York Supreme Court upheld the decision. However, the ruling was overturned on appeal in 2003, and the city was forced to pay the abatement retroactively. In 2005, Jablonski Berkowitz Conservation restored
10100-433: Was replaced by Perkins & Will during development. To the east of the theater is a 22-story annex, developed in 1999 for Millennium & Copthorne Hotels . The annex was designed by Stonehill & Taylor and Kiat Supattapone ; it is known as the Millennium Premier New York Times Square. The facade of the Hudson Theatre is incorporated into the base of the tower. The architectural firm of J. B. McElfatrick & Son
10201-416: Was the theater's original architect, but the firm of Israels & Harder oversaw the completion of the theater's design. Both the theater's 44th and 45th Street elevations are clad in tan brick with Flemish bond . The four-story 44th Street elevation, serving as the theater's primary entrance, is divided into five vertical bays and contains entrance doors at ground level. The five-story 45th Street elevation
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