New York Hilton Midtown | |
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Hotel chain | Hilton Hotels & Resorts |
General information | |
Location | 1335 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York |
Coordinates | 40°45′44″N73°58′43″W / 40.76225°N 73.97874°W |
Opening | June 26, 1963 |
Owner | Park Hotels & Resorts |
Management | Hilton Worldwide |
Height | 148.4 m (487 ft) |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 47 |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | William B. Tabler Architects Harrison & Abramovitz; |
Developer | Uris Buildings Corporation |
Other information | |
Number of rooms | 1,932 |
Number of suites | 47 |
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The New York Hilton Midtown is the largest hotel in New York City and world's 101st tallest hotel. The hotel is owned by Park Hotels & Resorts and managed by Hilton Worldwide. At 2,052 rooms total (1,878 hotel rooms and an additional 174 rooms belonging to Hilton Grand Vacations) and over 150,000 sq ft of meeting space, the hotel is the largest Hilton in the continental U.S.
The 47-floor building, north of Rockefeller Center at Sixth Avenue and 53rd Street, has hosted every U.S. president since John F. Kennedy as well as the Beatles. The world's first handheld cell phone call was made by hotel guest Martin Cooper in front of the hotel in 1973. Donald Trump delivered his 2016 United States presidential election victory speech at the hotel.
The project was developed by Hilton Hotels Corporation, the Rockefeller Group, and the Uris Buildings Corporation. The original architect was Morris Lapidus and he proposed to build a curved Fontainebleau Hotel-style building. However, Lapidus had to withdraw since he was also designing the competing Americana of New York hotel a block away. [5]
William B. Tabler was then tapped to finish the project and he designed it with slabs. It opened June 26, 1963, as the New York Hilton and offered 2,153 rooms, making it the largest in the city.
In 1990, a $100 million renovation decreased the number of guest rooms to 1,980. The property underwent further renovations in 1991–1994 and a $100 million renovation in 1998–2000 that included a complete overhaul of the lobby, the addition of an 8,000-square-foot (740 m2) Precor USA Fitness Center on the fifth floor. Around that time the name was changed to Hilton New York, as all Hilton hotels were rebranding the name Hilton to go before the city name at the time. In 2007, the hotel completed its fourth renovation. It now has 47 suites on floors 42 through 44. Each suite includes between 600 and 2,000 sq ft (56 and 186 m2) of space.
In 2013, the hotel was renamed the New York Hilton Midtown in honor of its 50th anniversary. [6] At that time, the management announced that it was ending room service and establishing a self-service cafeteria called "Herb n' Kitchen". [7]
Ownership of the hotel was transferred in 2017 to Park Hotels & Resorts when that company was spun off from Hilton Worldwide. [8]
Hilton Hotels & Resorts asserts that the lyrics to John Lennon's 1971 song "Imagine" were composed in the hotel. [9]
In late spring 1971, Neil Sheehan and colleagues at The New York Times used rooms [10] at the hotel to organize and summarize the Pentagon Papers, an internal DoD study of the history of the Vietnam War which he had surreptitiously copied from Daniel Ellsberg, for publication. [11]
In June 1972, Elvis Presley stayed at the hotel while performing four sold-out concerts at nearby Madison Square Garden. He held a press conference before the first show at the hotel's Mercury Ballroom.
Martin Cooper made the world's first handheld cellular phone call in public April 3, 1973, when he called Joel S. Engel at the New York Hilton with a two-pound Motorola DynaTAC phone. Cooper, a Motorola inventor called his rival at Bell Labs to tell him about the invention. The cell phone base station was next door atop the 1345 Avenue of the Americas. [12]
The hotel owned the property immediately west of it which was the site of the Adelphi Theatre where episodes of The Honeymooners were filmed. The Adelphi was torn down in 1970. In 1989, an office tower, 1325 Avenue of the Americas, was built on the site. The tower is connected to the Hilton with a walkway and keeps the Hilton's Sixth Avenue address even though it is midblock and closer to Seventh Avenue. Exterior shots of Elaine's workplace at the J. Peterman Company in Seinfeld show the building. [13] [14]
In the 2016 United States presidential election, Donald J. Trump held his election night victory party in the hotel's grand ballroom.
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