Wyndham New Yorker Hotel
| The New Yorker A Wyndham Hotel | |
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The hotel, with its large "New Yorker" sign
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| General information | |
| Location | 481 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10001 United States |
| Coordinates | 40°45′10″N 73°59′38″W / 40.75278°N 73.99389°W |
| Opening | 1930 |
| Owner | Unification Church of the United States |
| Management | Wyndham Hotels & Resorts |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 43 (21 for hotel) |
| Floor area | 1,000,000 sq ft (93,000 m2) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Sugarman and Berger |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 1,083 (originally 2,500) |
| Number of suites | 64 |
| Number of restaurants | 2 (originally 5) |
| Website | |
| www.newyorkerhotel.com | |
The New Yorker A Wyndham Hotel is a historic hotel located at 481 Eighth Avenue in New York City, United States. The 43-story Art Deco hotel, opened 1930, is a 1,083-room, mid-priced hotel located in Manhattan's Garment District and Hell's Kitchen areas, near Pennsylvania Station, Madison Square Garden, Times Square, and the Empire State Building. The 1-million-square-foot (93,000-square-metre) building offers two restaurants and approximately 33,000 square feet (3,100 m2) of conference space. Since re-opening as a hotel in 1994, it has undergone approximately $100 million in capital improvements, including lobby and room renovations and infrastructure modernization. The Unification Church purchased the building in 1975, and since 2014, it has been part of the Wyndham Hotels & Resorts chain.
Due to its noticeable marquee and proximity to the Empire State Building, it makes appearances in many films and is the backdrop for TV-studio reports and interviews broadcast worldwide from New York by BBC News.
The New Yorker Hotel was built by Garment Center developer Mack Kanner. When the project was announced in 1928, the Sugarman and Berger designed building was planned to be 38 stories, at an estimated cost of $8 million. However, when it was completed in 1929, the building had grown to 43 stories, at a final cost of $22.5 million and contained 2,500 rooms, making it the city's largest for many years. Hotel management pioneer Ralph Hitz was selected as its first manager, eventually becoming president of the National Hotel Management Company. An early ad for the building boasted that the hotel's "bell boys were 'as snappy-looking as West Pointers'" and "that it had a radio in every room with a choice of four stations". It was a New Yorker bellboy, Johnny Roventini, who served as tobacco company Philip Morris' pitchman for twenty years, making famous their "Call for Philip Morris" advertising campaign.
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