Hotel Astor (New York City)

Hotel Astor
Hotel Astor
	Hotel Astor in 1909
General information
Architectural style	Beaux-Arts
Location	Manhattan, New York City, United States
Construction started	1904
Completed	1910
Renovated	1935 and 1949
Demolished	1967

Hotel Astor was a hotel on Times Square in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, United States. Built in 1905 and expanded in 1909–1910 for the Astor family, the hotel occupied a site bounded by Broadway, Shubert Alley, and 44th and 45th Streets.^[1] Architects Clinton & Russell designed the hotel as an 11-story Beaux-Arts edifice with a mansard roof. It contained 1,000 guest rooms, with two more levels underground for its extensive "backstage" functions, such as the wine cellar.

The hotel was developed as a successor to the Waldorf-Astoria. Hotel Astor's success triggered the construction of the nearby Knickerbocker Hotel by other members of the Astor family two years later. The building was razed in 1967 to make way for the high-rise office tower One Astor Plaza.

^ Bloom, Ken (2007). The Routledge Guide to Broadway (1st ed.). New York: Routledge. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-415-97380-9.

[page_13-1] Bloom, Ken (2007). The Routledge Guide to Broadway (1st ed.). New York: Routledge. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-415-97380-9.

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