| New York Marriott Marquis | |
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 Seen in 2021 | |
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| Hotel chain | Marriott Hotels & Resorts |
| General information | |
| Architectural style | Brutalist |
| Location | Manhattan, New York City, United States |
| Address | 1535 Broadway |
| Coordinates | 40°45′31″N 73°59′10″W / 40.75861°N 73.98611°W |
| Opening | September 3, 1985 |
| Cost | US$350 million |
| Owner | Host Hotels & Resorts |
| Management | Marriott International |
| Height | 574 ft (175 m) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 51 (+2 basement) |
| Floor area | 1,844,800 sq ft (171,390 m2) |
| Lifts/elevators | 16 (passenger), 6 (service); installed by Westinghouse and modernized by Schindler twice (2006 and 2019) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | John Portman & Associates |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 1,971 |
| Number of suites | 57 |
| Number of restaurants | 3 |
| Website | |
| Official website | |
| "New York Marriott Marquis". CTBUH Skyscraper Center.[1][2][3] | |
The New York Marriott Marquis is a Marriott hotel on Times Square, in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Designed by architect John C. Portman Jr., the hotel is at 1535 Broadway, between 45th and 46th Streets. It has 1,971 rooms and 101,000 sq ft (9,400 m2) of meeting space.
The hotel has two wings, one on 45th Street and one on 46th Street, connected by a podium at ground level. The first two stories contain retail space, while the Marquis Theatre was built within the building's third floor. The hotel's atrium lobby is at the eighth floor and also includes meeting space and restaurants. Thirty-six stories of guestrooms rise above the lobby, overlooking it. The top three stories contain the View, one of New York City's highest restaurants. An architectural feature of the hotel is its concrete elevator core, which consists of a minaret-shaped structure with twelve glass elevator cabs on the exterior.
Real estate agent Peter Sharp acquired the site in the 1960s with plans to build an office building on the site. The hotel was first announced in 1972 and official plans were released in 1973, but the hotel was postponed after the New York City fiscal crisis in 1975. The hotel was restarted in the late 1970s under mayor Ed Koch. There was extensive controversy over the destruction of five old theaters on the site, and various lawsuits and protests delayed the start of construction until 1982. By the time construction began, Westin had been replaced with Marriott. The hotel opened on September 3, 1985, and has undergone several renovations and modifications since then. By the late 1990s, the hotel was one of the most profitable in the Marriott chain. Marriott bought out Portman's minority ownership stake in 1993 and acquired the underlying site in 2013.
- ^ "Emporis building ID 114261". Emporis. Archived from the original on November 5, 2015.
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- ^ New York Marriott Marquis at Structurae