Sunshine Hotel
Coordinates: 40°43′21″N 73°59′34″W / 40.72250°N 73.99278°W
The Sunshine Hotel is a flophouse established in the 1920s located at 241 Bowery in Manhattan, New York City. It received media attention in the late 1990s and early 2000s as a result of numerous radio and film documentaries about the hotel. The Sunshine Hotel has shrunk in more recent years, with some parts being converted into a restaurant and offices.
Upon establishing the hotel in the 1920s, Frank Mazzara reworked the façade in the styles of Art Deco and Commercial. This façade has pale yellow bricks, limestone pediments and panels, and plaques with wreath and torch emblems. 241 Bowery is three stories high and is connected internally to its neighbors 243 and 245 Bowery.
The Sunshine Hotel had a three-building structure with sections labeled Lakewood, Sunshine, and Annex. The Lakewood had 45 rooms, the Sunshine had 100, and the Annex had 36. Each cubicle room offers no amenities except a bed, a locker, a light-bulb, and chicken-wire ceiling. These rooms' dimensions are 4 ft × 6 ft (1.2 m × 1.8 m) on the sides and 7 ft (2.1 m) tall. When the hotel opened in the 1920s, guests could stay for 10 cents (equivalent to $1.43 in 2016) a night. By 1998, its rates were $10 a night.
The address 241 Bowery was originally an office for the New York and Harlem Rail Company in the 1830s. In the late 1870s it was the location of the saloon and brothel Sultan Divin, and in 1910 the Fleabag saloon took over. By the early 1920s, the address was an old pickle factory. The broom-maker Frank Mazzara bought the location in 1922 and established the Sunshine Hotel.
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