Dixie Hotel

Hotel Carter
view from the east on 43rd Street
General information
Location	250 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036 United States
Opening	1930
Owner	Tran Dinh Truong
Technical details
Floor count	25
Design and construction
Architect	Emery Roth
Other information
Number of rooms	700
Website
http://www.carterhotel.com

The Hotel Carter is a historic Manhattan lodging place located a half block west of Times Square. The facility was financed by a $2,200,000 loan to Harold and Percy Uris by the New York State Title and Mortgage Company in May 1929. It was chartered for $10,000 by M.C. Levine, of 535 5th Avenue, on April 22, 1930. Until October 1976 it was called the Dixie Hotel. The building is 24 stories tall, and at its opening, had 1,000 rooms. According to the hotel's website, it now has 700 rooms. When initially built, it extended from 43rd Street to 42nd Street, although the wing abutting 42nd Street has since been demolished.

It has been ranked the dirtiest hotel in America from 2004–08. Numerous reports on TripAdvisor warn of bedbug infestation and unsafe conditions.

Excavation for the new structure began with the removal of six old tenements from the site in May 1929. Tenements were razed between 250–263 West 43rd Street along with a two story "taxpayer" at 241 West 42nd Street. Several floors of steel work were added to the framework by mid-October.

In October 1931 a Federal judge appointed the Irving Trust Company as receiver in the bankruptcy of the Harper Organization, Inc., and Harris H., and Percy Uris, its officers. The defendant corporation owned the Dixie Hotel. James B. Regan, formerly proprietor of the Knickerbocker Hotel, was another appointed receiver.

The hotel and bus terminal were sold in March 1932, during the Great Depression, to pay a debt of $2,058,540. The property was valued at $2,300,000. In April 1932 the Southworth Management Corporation, headed by Roy S. Hubbell, assumed control of hotel operations. Hubbell formerly managed the Hotel Commodore and the Hotel Belmont in New York City. The Southworth Management Corporation was affiliated with William Ziegler Jr. The company had jurisdiction over the site of the demolished Hotel Belmont at 42nd Street and Park Avenue (Manhattan). Hubbell, whose primary residence was in Pelham, New York, died in October 1932, in his bedroom at the Dixie Hotel. He was 55.