| Hyatt Grand Central New York | |
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 Hyatt Grand Central New York as seen from the southeast, at Lexington Avenue and 42nd Street | |
 Interactive map highlighting the hotel's location | |
| Hotel chain | Hyatt Hotels |
| General information | |
| Location | Manhattan, New York, US |
| Address | 109 East 42nd Street |
| Coordinates | 40°45′08″N 73°58′35″W / 40.75222°N 73.97639°W |
| Opening | January 28, 1919 |
| Renovated | September 25, 1980 |
| Owner | Hyatt |
| Management | Hyatt |
| Height | 295 ft (90 m) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 26 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Warren & Wetmore |
| Renovating team | |
| Architect(s) | Gruzen Samton |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 1306 |
| Website | |
| https://newyork.grand.hyatt.com/ | |
The Hyatt Grand Central New York is a hotel located at 109 East 42nd Street, adjoining Grand Central Terminal, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It operated as the 2,000-room Commodore Hotel between 1919 and 1976, before hotel chain Hyatt and real estate developer Donald Trump converted the hotel to the 1,400-room Grand Hyatt New York between 1978 and 1980. As of 2019[update], the hotel is planned to be replaced with a skyscraper named Project Commodore.
The New York Central Railroad had acquired the site in 1910 and started constructing the hotel in October 1916. The Commodore was designed by Warren & Wetmore, with the Fuller Company as the hotel's general contractor. The hotel was 295 feet (90 m), with up to 28 stories, and had an H-shaped floor plan and a brick-and-terracotta facade. It contained a large lobby designed in a manner resembling an Italian courtyard, as well as various dining rooms and ballrooms. The Commodore opened on January 28, 1919, and was originally operated by Bowman-Biltmore Hotels. Zeckendorf Hotels took over the Commodore's operation in 1958 before handing it to New York Central subsidiary Realty Hotels in 1966. Due to declining profits, the Commodore closed on May 18, 1976.
Trump and Hyatt offered in 1975 to take over the Commodore and renovate it into the Grand Hyatt. After the city government granted a tax abatement for the renovation, Trump and Hyatt completely remodeled the hotel from June 1978 to September 1980, spending $100 million and removing almost all of the Commodore's original decorations. The renovated hotel includes a glass facade, a three-story atrium, a restaurant cantilevered over a sidewalk, and the Commodore's original ballroom. With the deteriorating partnership between Trump and Hyatt, the Pritzker family, which operated the Grand Hyatt, acquired Trump's stake in the hotel in 1996. The Project Commodore skyscraper was announced for the site in 2019, and the Grand Hyatt temporarily closed in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. The hotel reopened in 2021 as the Hyatt Grand Central. As of December 2023[update], work on Project Commodore is expected to begin by 2026.