195-527: The Martinique New York on Broadway, Curio Collection by Hilton is a 532-room hotel at 53 West 32nd Street (also known as 1260-1266 Broadway) in Manhattan , New York City . It was designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh and built by William R. H. Martin , who headed the Rogers Peet business, in a French Renaissance style. The Martinique was developed in three sections between 1897 and 1911. The hotel
390-723: A Holiday Inn franchise in October 1998. The hotel switched to the Radisson chain in 2005 and joined Hilton's Curio Collection division in 2019. After the Martinique went into foreclosure in 2020, Burnett Equities bought the hotel and reopened it in late 2021. The Martinique New York is on the east side of Herald Square in the Koreatown and Midtown South neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City . The building has
585-532: A cross-platform interchange between local and express services. Some four-track lines with express service have two tracks each on two levels and use both island and side platforms. Since the majority of the system was built before 1990, the year the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) went into effect, many New York City Subway stations were not designed to be accessible to all. Since then, elevators have been built in newly constructed stations to comply with
780-505: A frontage along Broadway to the west, 33rd Street to the north, and 32nd Street to the south. The hotel was built on lots at West 33rd and 32nd Streets, and also the northeast corner of Broadway and 32nd Street. The irregularly shaped land lot covers 19,975 square feet (1,855.7 m), with a frontage of 93.17 feet (28 m) on Broadway and a depth of 122.83 feet (37.44 m) between 33rd and 34th Streets. The hotel comprises two 17-story structures on Broadway and 32nd Street, as well as
975-775: A $ 40 million renovation of the Martinique. The hotel joined Hilton's Curio Collection division on February 1, 2019, and was renamed the Martinique New York on Broadway, Curio Collection by Hilton . The hotel was forced to close in March 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City , and the operators laid off many of the hotel's 176 workers. As a result of the pandemic, the hotel filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September 2020. When Thurman died at
1170-595: A 1981 article in Rolling Stone magazine calling the stretch of West 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues the "sleaziest block in America". By the late 1990s, led by efforts by the city and the Walt Disney Company , the area had been revived as a center of tourism to the point where it was described by The New York Times as "arguably the most sought-after 13 acres of commercial property in
1365-402: A 1986 analysis, families stayed at the Martinique for an average of 16 months. The author Jonathan Kozol analyzed conditions at the Martinique for his 1988 book Rachel and Her Children , a study of homeless families. According to Kozol, it cost $ 2,000 per month for a room housing a family of four and $ 3,000 per month for a family of six. The federal government paid 50 percent of this cost, while
1560-497: A Vignelli-style interactive subway map, "The Weekender", an online map that provides information about any planned work, from late Friday night to early Monday morning. In October 2020, the MTA launched a digital version of the map showing real-time service patterns and service changes, designed by Work & Co . Several privately produced schematics are available online or in printed form, such as those by Hagstrom Map . Out of
1755-528: A balconette, as well as a large entablature above it, decorated with a shield and cornucopia. The second, fourth, eighth, and tenth stories also contain balconettes. Above the mansard roof is a central tower with a dormer, which in turn is flanked by a pair of smaller dormer windows. The ground floor contains a large lobby, known as the concourse. The space contained an Italian Renaissance-style ceiling as well as inlaid floor tiles. The walls were of Greek Skyros marble in gray and yellow with light-purple veining, and
1950-449: A balcony on the fourteenth story. The windows on the fourteenth story are plain in design and are topped by a cornice with a stone balcony. The fifteenth story is within the mansard roof and contains projecting dormer windows, which are flanked by volutes and topped by finials. The center section of the mansard contains a square tower, which rises above the roof and supports a water tank. There are round windows within this square tower. At
2145-420: A cladding of plain brick. The facade is crowned by a large green mansard roof and has decorated dormer windows. The southern elevation on 32nd Street is the building's primary facade and dates to the 1911 expansion. This elevation is laid out symmetrically, and the five central bays are placed within a slightly projecting pavilion. The main entrance is on 32nd Street, through a three-bay-wide marble doorway at
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#17327826992242340-589: A day celebrated as Evacuation Day , marking when the last British forces left the city. From January 11, 1785, until 1789, New York City was the fifth of five capitals of the United States under the Articles of Confederation , with the Continental Congress meeting at New York City Hall (then at Fraunces Tavern ). New York was the first capital under the newly enacted Constitution of
2535-628: A few stretches of track run at ground level; 40% of track is above ground. Many lines and stations have both express and local services. These lines have three or four tracks. Normally, the outer two are used by local trains, while the inner one or two are used by express trains. As of 2018 , the New York City Subway's budgetary burden for expenditures was $ 8.7 billion, supported by collection of fares, bridge tolls, and earmarked regional taxes and fees, as well as direct funding from state and local governments. Alfred Ely Beach built
2730-562: A firm based in Oklahoma City , bought the hotel in November 2021 for $ 55.5 million. Burnett Equities president Andy Burnett renegotiated the terms of the land lease following a dinner with the landowner's daughter, and he leased out 30,000 square feet (2,800 m) of empty storefront space to three restaurants. The hotel reopened the next month, with 200 rooms. Burnett Equities hired Steven Kratchman Architect, which had been renovating
2925-641: A foolhardy character in climbing the outer walks of buildings by human beings". Frank A. Duggan took over as the hotel's manager in May 1928. The 56 East 59th Street Corporation, led by Louis Markel, bought the hotel from the Greeley Square Company that November. Markel headed the Martinique Hotel Corporation, which officially took title to the hotel at the beginning of January 1929. Markel planned to spend $ 250,000 remodeling
3120-502: A foyer that led to a tea room and banquet room. The foyer was decorated in the Louis XIV style , with carved, dark oak woodwork and walls completely covered in period tapestries. Within the foyer, there were carved wooden doors with inlaid paneled mirrors. The tea room had artificial stone walls covered with painted-green wooden grillages; the skylight over the entire room was concealed by rafters and grillage with entwined vines. Adjoining
3315-553: A grand ballroom, an executive boardroom, and breakout rooms. As of 2021, the hotel has 9,000 square feet (840 m) of event space in 14 rooms, which can fit 500 people. When the Martinique Hotel was developed at the end of the 19th century, many commercial structures were being developed around Herald Square. Manhattan's theater district had begun to shift northward along Broadway, from Union Square and Madison Square to Herald Square and eventually Times Square , during
3510-563: A growing number of Indian restaurants and spice shops along a stretch of Lexington Avenue between 25th and 30th Streets which has become known as Curry Hill . Washington Heights in Uptown Manhattan is home to the largest Dominican immigrant community in the United States. Harlem , also in Upper Manhattan, is the historical epicenter of African American culture. Since 2010, a Little Australia has emerged and
3705-457: A homeless shelter. United Press International said the Martinique became "a national symbol of the helplessness and squalor faced by those too poor to afford housing", while local newspaper Newsday wrote: "The Martinique is a building that reeks of despair and of broken dreams. It is often called a symbol of the city's inability to deal with the homeless population." The reverend of the nearby Church of St. Francis of Assisi said in 1974 that
3900-930: A language other than English at home. Points of interest on Manhattan Island include the American Museum of Natural History ; the Battery ; Broadway and the Theater District ; Bryant Park ; Central Park , Chinatown ; the Chrysler Building ; The Cloisters ; Columbia University ; Curry Hill ; the Empire State Building ; Flatiron Building ; the Financial District (including the New York Stock Exchange Building ; Wall Street ; and
4095-416: A large arch spanning most of the room, as well as smaller arches that led off the main arch. There were reliefs of arabesques along the grill room's ceiling, which ran along the ceiling's rubs, as well as a pair of wrought-iron chandeliers that were colored to match the design of the ceiling. Leading off the grill room was a large humidor , as well as kitchens and serving pantries. The second story included
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#17327826992244290-769: A letter or a number and "lines" have names. Trains display their route designation. There are 28 train services in the subway system, including three short shuttles . Each route has a color and a local or express designation representing the Manhattan trunk line of the service. New York City residents seldom refer to services by color (e.g., "blue line" or "green line") but out-of-towners and tourists often do. The 1 , C , G , L , M , R , and W trains are fully local and make all stops. The 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , A , B , D , E , F , N , and Q trains have portions of express and local service. J , Z , 6 , and 7 trains vary by direction, day, or time of day. The letter S
4485-401: A modern German style. It was accessed by a marble staircase and elevators, which led to a small vestibule with white tiles. The Grill room was decorated in red and orange, and the floor was made of red tiles. The walls and piers were made of a material resembling Caen stone ; the walls were also wainscoted in dark oak and contained decorative lighting sconces . The vaulted ceiling consisted of
4680-567: A mortgage loan for the Martinique in December 1931, claiming that the hotel's owners had not made mortgage payments for two years. A foreclosure auction for the hotel was scheduled for May 1933. The same month, Metropolitan Life bid $ 500,000, taking ownership of the building and most of the site. Metropolitan Life also took over the previous owners' lease of a 39-foot-wide (12 m) parcel of land on Broadway, which had belonged to Mary J. George. Metropolitan Life hired Francis Keally in 1936 to design
4875-515: A multibillion-dollar rebuilding plan was unveiled to restore the historic grandeur of Penn Station, in the process of upgrading the landmark's status as a critical transportation hub . The 700,000 sq ft (65,000 m ) Moynihan Train Hall , developed as a $ 1.6 billion renovation and expansion of Penn Station into the James A. Farley Building , the city's former main post office building,
5070-474: A play area for the children who were housed there. Around the same time, state officials received complaints that families at the Martinique occupied "cramped, subdivided rooms without bathrooms [or] furniture". The city government ultimately fined the hotel's owners in 1988 after finding that the guest rooms had been divided into cubicles of as small as 9 by 12 feet (2.7 by 3.7 m). The hotel lacked in-room telephones, heat, running water, or elevator service, and
5265-542: A public authority presided by New York City, was created in 1953 to take over subway, bus, and streetcar operations from the city, and placed under control of the state-level Metropolitan Transportation Authority in 1968. Organized in 1934 by transit workers of the BRT, IRT, and IND, the Transport Workers Union of America Local 100 remains the largest and most influential local of the labor unions. Since
5460-785: A refurbishment of the guest rooms. The hotel continued to host events in the 1940s, such as meetings of the American Jewish Committee and the New York State Committee on Discrimination in Housing. Kridel's syndicate bought the hotel in 1944, subject to a $ 1.3 million mortgage. By then, the hotel and the underlying land was valued at $ 2.25 million. During World War II , German saboteurs Richard Quirin and Heinrich Harm Heinck , notorious for their involvement in Operation Pastorius , stayed at
5655-420: A renovation of the ground-floor restaurant, converting part of the restaurant into a bar. George Bernard, a retired women's apparel dealer, acquired the plot of land on Broadway from the executor of Mary George's estate in 1937 for $ 152,000. Metropolitan Life leased the hotel in 1939 to a syndicate headed by Frank W. Kridel . The hotel was undergoing an extensive renovation at the time of the sale, which included
5850-443: A richness which is completed by Pompeiian panels of unquestioned merit." The Louis XIV style dining room was to the right (east) of the lobby. It had Circassian-walnut paneling and gold panels on the walls. There were eight gold panels, which contained three-quarter length, life-size depictions of four men and four women, painted by Irving Wiles and Carroll Beckwith . In addition, the dining room had rose-and-gold draperies. There
6045-535: A series of spontaneous, violent protests by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. They are widely considered to constitute the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights . In
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6240-420: A similar color scheme was used on the coffered ceiling , from which chandeliers were suspended. Within the lobby is a spiral staircase dating from 1907, as well as an antique clock. The clock was manufactured by King James I 's personal clockmaker, H. T. Crawford , for English statesman Ralph Winwood in 1691. The hotel's developer, William R. H. Martin , had purchased the clock from Mrs. Elizabeth C. Cole when
6435-632: A six-story wing on 33rd Street. The building shares the city block with the Hotel Pierrepont and the Hotel at Fifth Avenue to the east. Other nearby structures include the Empire State Building to the northeast, Herald Towers to the north, Macy's Herald Square to the northwest, Manhattan Mall to the west, and the former Grand Hotel and the Hotel Wolcott one block south. The 12-story, 165-room Hotel Alcazar at one time adjoined
6630-482: A station, passengers may use station booths (formerly known as token booths) or vending machines to buy their fare, which is currently stored in a MetroCard or OMNY card. Each station has at least one booth, typically located at the busiest entrance. After swiping the card at a turnstile, customers enter the fare-controlled area of the station and continue to the platforms. Inside fare control are "Off-Hours Waiting Areas", which consist of benches and are identified by
6825-547: A total of 850 miles (1,370 km) including non-revenue trackage . Of the system's 28 routes or "services" (which usually share track or "lines" with other services), 25 pass through Manhattan, the exceptions being the G train, the Franklin Avenue Shuttle , and the Rockaway Park Shuttle . Large portions of the subway outside Manhattan are elevated, on embankments , or in open cuts , and
7020-430: A waiting list of 65 names, and that at least one suite of two rooms and bath, rented at $ 500, has been sublet at $ 1,200". The success of the Martinique prompted another developer to construct an apartment hotel on a neighboring site. Soon after the Martinique opened, Martin converted the Martinique to a transient hotel; even this did not provide enough room for the growing demand of the neighborhood. Mary L. George, who owned
7215-467: A wildlife sanctuary, and several lawns and sporting areas, as well as 21 playgrounds, and a 6-mile (9.7 km) road from which automobile traffic has been banned since 2018. While much of the park looks natural, it is almost entirely landscaped; the construction of Central Park in the 1850s was one of the era's most massive public works projects, with some 20,000 workers moving 5 million cubic yards (3.8 million cubic meters) of material to shape
7410-562: A year. In 1961, the struggling Pennsylvania Railroad unveiled plans to tear down the old Penn Station and replace it with a new Madison Square Garden and office building complex. Organized protests were aimed at preserving the McKim, Mead & White -designed structure completed in 1910, widely considered a masterpiece of the Beaux-Arts style and one of the architectural jewels of New York City. Despite these efforts, demolition of
7605-497: A yellow sign. A typical subway station has waiting platforms ranging from 480 to 600 feet (150 to 180 m) long. Some are longer. Platforms of former commuter rail stations—such as those on the IND Rockaway Line , are even longer. With the many different lines in the system, one platform often serves more than one service. Passengers need to look at the overhead signs to see which trains stop there and when, and at
7800-466: Is a New York City designated landmark and is part of the Historic Hotels of America . As completed, the hotel had 600 rooms. The hotel occupies an irregular site with facades along Broadway to the west, 33rd Street to the north, and 32nd Street to the south. On all three sides, the facade is made of glazed brick, terracotta , and limestone, with balconies, cartouches, and sash windows . It
7995-598: Is a name from the Dutch colonial era after Haarlem , a city in the Netherlands. Some have simple folkloric names, such as Hell's Kitchen , alongside their more official but lesser used title (in this case, Clinton). Some neighborhoods, such as SoHo , which is mixed use, are known for upscale shopping as well as residential use. Others, such as Greenwich Village , the Lower East Side , Alphabet City and
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8190-489: Is approximately 8 feet 9 inches (2.67 m) wide and 51 feet 4 inches (15.65 m) long, whereas B Division equipment is about 10 feet (3.05 m) wide and either 60 feet 6 inches (18.44 m) or 75 feet (22.86 m) long. The different lengths for the B Division fleet are necessary because 75-foot cars can not be used over the BMT Eastern Division . Cars purchased by
8385-762: Is bounded by the Hudson River to the west and the East River to the east. To the north, the Harlem River divides Manhattan Island from the Bronx and the mainland United States. Early in the 19th century, land reclamation was used to expand Lower Manhattan from the natural Hudson shoreline at Greenwich Street to West Street . When building the World Trade Center in 1968, 1.2 million cubic yards (920,000 m ) of material excavated from
8580-419: Is crowned by a large green mansard roof and has decorated dormer windows. Inside the hotel were various ornately decorated public rooms, including a lobby, cafe, and dining rooms at ground level; a grill room in the basement; and ballrooms on the second floor. The modern-day hotel contains two restaurants and some exhibition space. Martin acquired land for the hotel between 1892 and 1895. The first section of
8775-418: Is five bays wide. On all three elevations, the ground story is clad with rusticated limestone blocks and contains storefronts, while the upper stories are faced in terracotta and brick. The facade also contains aluminum sash windows . When built, the hotel featured "rusticated stonework balconies and prominent cartouches on all three of its facades". The eastern elevation, which faces nearby buildings, contains
8970-508: Is growing in Nolita, Lower Manhattan. Manhattan has two central business districts, the Financial District at the southern tip of the island, and Midtown Manhattan . The term uptown also refers to the northern part of Manhattan above 72nd Street and downtown to the southern portion below 14th Street , with Midtown covering the area in between, though definitions can be fluid. Fifth Avenue roughly bisects Manhattan Island and acts as
9165-558: Is land and 10.8 square miles (28 km ) (32%) is water. The northern segment of Upper Manhattan represents a geographic panhandle . Manhattan Island is 22.7 square miles (59 km ) in area, 13.4 miles (21.6 km) long and 2.3 miles (3.7 km) wide, at its widest point, near 14th Street . The borough consists primarily of Manhattan Island, along with the Marble Hill neighborhood and several small islands, including Randalls Island and Wards Island and Roosevelt Island in
9360-406: Is no nightly system shutdown for maintenance, tracks and stations must be maintained while the system is operating. This work sometimes necessitates service changes during midday, overnight hours, and weekends. When parts of lines are temporarily shut down for construction purposes, the transit authority can substitute free shuttle buses (using MTA Regional Bus Operations bus fleet ) to replace
9555-658: Is relatively evenly spread throughout the year. Average winter snowfall between 1981 and 2010 has been 25.8 inches (66 cm); this varies considerably from year to year. Manhattan's many neighborhoods are not named according to any particular convention, nor do they have official boundaries. Some are geographical (the Upper East Side ), or ethnically descriptive ( Little Italy ). Others are acronyms , such as TriBeCa (for "TRIangle BElow CAnal Street") or SoHo ("SOuth of HOuston"), NoLIta ("NOrth of Little ITAly"), and NoMad ("NOrth of MADison Square Park"). Harlem
9750-427: Is smaller than the peak of the system. In addition to the demolition of former elevated lines, which collectively have resulted in the demolition of over a hundred stations, other closed stations and unused portions of existing stations remain in parts of the system. Many stations in the subway system have mezzanines . Mezzanines allow for passengers to enter from multiple locations at an intersection and proceed to
9945-913: Is the world's seventh-tallest building (as of 2023) . The Occupy Wall Street protests in Zuccotti Park in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan began on September 17, 2011, receiving global attention and spawning the Occupy movement against social and economic inequality worldwide. On October 29 and 30, 2012, Hurricane Sandy caused extensive destruction in the borough, ravaging portions of Lower Manhattan with record-high storm surge from New York Harbor, severe flooding, and high winds, causing power outages for hundreds of thousands of city residents and leading to gasoline shortages and disruption of mass transit systems. The storm and its profound impacts have prompted discussion of constructing seawalls and other coastal barriers around
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#173278269922410140-408: Is the economic engine of New York City , with its 2.45 million workers drawn from the entire New York metropolitan area accounting for almost more than half of all jobs in New York City. Manhattan's workforce is overwhelmingly focused on white collar professions. In 2010, Manhattan's daytime population was swelling to 3.94 million, with commuters adding a net 1.48 million people to
10335-638: Is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City . Coextensive with New York County , Manhattan is the smallest county by geographical area in the U.S. state of New York . Located almost entirely on Manhattan Island near the southern tip of the state, Manhattan constitutes the center of the Northeast megalopolis and the urban core of the New York metropolitan area . Manhattan serves as New York City's economic and administrative center and has been described as
10530-647: Is the most expensive shopping street in the world. The borough hosts many prominent bridges , tunnels , and skyscrapers including the Empire State Building , Chrysler Building , and One World Trade Center . It is also home to the National Basketball Association 's New York Knicks and the National Hockey League 's New York Rangers . Manhattan was historically part of the Lenapehoking territory inhabited by
10725-554: Is used for three shuttle services: Franklin Avenue Shuttle , Rockaway Park Shuttle , and 42nd Street Shuttle . Though the subway system operates on a 24-hour basis , during late night hours some of the designated routes do not run, run as a shorter route (often referred to as the "shuttle train" version of its full-length counterpart) or run with a different stopping pattern. These are usually indicated by smaller, secondary route signage on station platforms. Because there
10920-708: Is well suited for the foundations of Manhattan's skyscrapers . It is part of the Manhattan Prong physiographic region. Under the Köppen climate classification , New York City features both a humid subtropical climate ( Cfa ) and a humid continental climate ( Dfa ); it is the northernmost major city on the North American continent with a humid subtropical climate. The city averages 234 days with at least some sunshine annually. Winters are cold and damp, and prevailing wind patterns that blow offshore temper
11115-577: The 142nd Street and Myrtle Avenue junctions, whose tracks intersect at the same level, as well as the same-direction pairs of tracks on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line at Rogers Junction . The 7,700 workers who built the original subway lines were mostly immigrants living in Manhattan. More recent projects use tunnel boring machines , which increase the cost. However, they minimize disruption at street level and avoid already existing utilities. Examples of such projects include
11310-600: The 472 stations , 470 are served 24 hours a day. Underground stations in the New York City Subway are typically accessed by staircases going down from street level. Many of these staircases are painted in a common shade of green, with slight or significant variations in design. Other stations have unique entrances reflective of their location or date of construction. Several station entrance stairs, for example, are built into adjacent buildings. Nearly all station entrances feature color-coded globe or square lamps signifying their status as an entrance. The current number of stations
11505-484: The 63rd Street Lines , opened in 1989. The new South Ferry station was built and connected to the existing Whitehall Street–South Ferry station in 2009. The one-stop 7 Subway Extension to the west side of Manhattan, consisting of the 34th Street–Hudson Yards station, was opened in 2015, and three stations on the Second Avenue Subway in the Upper East Side were opened as part of Phase 1 of
11700-745: The American Revolutionary War . The Continental Army was forced to abandon Manhattan after the Battle of Fort Washington on November 16, 1776. The city, greatly damaged by the Great Fire of New York during the campaign, became the British military and political center of operations in North America for the remainder of the war. British occupation lasted until November 25, 1783, when George Washington returned to Manhattan,
11895-706: The Chicago "L" plans all stations to be accessible in the 2030s, the Toronto subway will be fully accessible by 2025, and Montreal Metro plans all stations to be accessible by 2038. Both the Boston and Chicago systems are as old or older than the New York City Subway, though all of these systems have fewer stations than the New York City Subway. Newer systems like the Washington Metro and Bay Area Rapid Transit have been fully accessible from their opening in
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#173278269922412090-564: The East Village , have long been associated with the Bohemian subculture. Chelsea is one of several Manhattan neighborhoods with large gay populations and has become a center of both the international art industry and New York's nightlife. Chinatown has the highest concentration of people of Chinese descent outside of Asia . Koreatown is roughly centered on 32nd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Rose Hill features
12285-908: The FBI as "something of a deadly dress rehearsal for 9/11", was a terrorist attack in which six people were killed when a van bomb filled with explosives was detonated in a parking lot below the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex . On September 11, 2001, the Twin Towers of the original World Trade Center were struck by hijacked aircraft and collapsed in the September 11 attacks launched by al-Qaeda terrorists. The collapse caused extensive damage to surrounding buildings and skyscrapers in Lower Manhattan, and resulted in
12480-426: The Harlem and Hudson rivers, separated it from the remainder of Manhattan. Before World War I, the section of the original Harlem River channel separating Marble Hill from the Bronx was filled in, and Marble Hill became part of the mainland. After a May 1984 court ruling that Marble Hill was simultaneously part of the Borough of Manhattan (not the Borough of the Bronx) and part of Bronx County (not New York County),
12675-424: The Hearst Tower , the rebuilt 7 World Trade Center , and the Bank of America Tower —the first skyscraper designed to attain a Platinum LEED Certification. The skyscraper , which has shaped Manhattan's distinctive skyline , has been closely associated with New York City's identity since the end of the 19th century. Structures such as the Equitable Building of 1915, which rises vertically forty stories from
12870-404: The Hudson and Manhattan Railroad 's 33rd Street Terminal in the 1900s further spurred growth immediately around Herald Square. The hotel was developed by William R. H. Martin , who headed the Rogers Peet business and named the hotel after himself. Martin had opened a store at 1260 Broadway in 1890, several years before companies such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Macy's opened their stores in
13065-406: The IND Sixth Avenue Line was completed in 1940, the city went into great debt , and only 33 new stations have been added to the system since, nineteen of which were part of defunct railways that already existed. Five stations were on the abandoned New York, Westchester and Boston Railway , which was incorporated into the system in 1941 as the IRT Dyre Avenue Line . Fourteen more stations were on
13260-451: The IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line , which ran directly underneath the World Trade Center . Sections of the tunnel, as well as the Cortlandt Street station, which was directly underneath the Twin Towers, were severely damaged. Rebuilding required the suspension of service on that line south of Chambers Street. Ten other nearby stations were closed for cleanup. By March 2002, seven of those stations had reopened. Except for Cortlandt Street,
13455-672: The IRT subway debuted in 1904, the typical tunnel construction method was cut-and-cover . The street was torn up to dig the tunnel below before being rebuilt from above. Traffic on the street above would be interrupted due to the digging up of the street. Temporary steel and wooden bridges carried surface traffic above the construction. Contractors in this type of construction faced many obstacles, both natural and human made. They had to deal with rock formations and groundwater, which required pumps. Twelve miles of sewers, as well as water and gas mains, electric conduits, and steam pipes had to be rerouted. Street railways had to be torn up to allow
13650-422: The Munsee , Lenape , and Wappinger tribes . There were several Lenape settlements in the area including Sapohanikan , Nechtanc , and Konaande Kongh , which were interconnected by a series of trails. The primary trail on the island, which would later become Broadway , ran from what is now Inwood in the north to Battery Park in the south. There were various sites for fishing and planting established by
13845-507: The R142 , R142A , R143 , R160 , R179 and R188 were placed into service. These cars are collectively known as New Technology Trains (NTTs) due to modern innovations such as LED and LCD route signs and information screens, as well as recorded train announcements and the ability to facilitate Communication-Based Train Control (CBTC) . As part of the 2017–2020 MTA Financial Plan, 600 subway cars will have electronic display signs installed to improve customer experience. Riders pay
14040-694: The South Street Seaport ); Grand Central Terminal ; Greenwich Village (including New York University ; Washington Square Arch ; and Stonewall Inn ); Harlem and Spanish Harlem ; the High Line ; Koreatown ; Lincoln Center ; Little Australia ; Little Italy ; Madison Square Garden ; Museum Mile on Fifth Avenue (including the Metropolitan Museum of Art ); Penn Station , Port Authority Bus Terminal ; Rockefeller Center (including Radio City Music Hall ); Times Square ; and
14235-496: The U.S. mainland . Manhattan Island is divided into three informally bounded components, each cutting across the borough's long axis: Lower Manhattan, Midtown , and Upper Manhattan. Manhattan is one of the most densely populated locations in the world, with a 2020 census population of 1,694,250 living in a land area of 22.66 square miles (58.69 km ), or 72,918 residents per square mile (28,154 residents/km ), and coextensive with New York County, its residential property has
14430-522: The World Trade Center (including the National September 11 Museum and One World Trade Center ). There are also numerous iconic bridges across rivers that connect to Manhattan Island, as well as an emerging number of supertall skyscrapers . The Statue of Liberty rests on Liberty Island , an exclave of Manhattan, and part of Ellis Island is also an exclave of Manhattan. The borough has many energy-efficient office buildings, such as
14625-488: The boroughs of Manhattan , Brooklyn , Queens , and the Bronx . It is owned by the government of New York City and leased to the New York City Transit Authority , an affiliate agency of the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Opened on October 27, 1904, the New York City Subway is one of the world's oldest public transit systems, one of the most-used, and the one with
14820-466: The citadel of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island, later called New Amsterdam ( Nieuw Amsterdam ), in what is now Lower Manhattan. The establishment of Fort Amsterdam is recognized as the birth of New York City. In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant was appointed as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony. New Amsterdam was formally incorporated as a city on February 2, 1653. In 1664, English forces conquered New Netherland and renamed it "New York" after
15015-478: The deaths of 2,606 of the 17,400 who had been in the buildings when the planes hit, in addition to those on the planes. Since 2001, most of Lower Manhattan has been restored, although there has been controversy surrounding the rebuilding. In 2014, the new One World Trade Center , at 1,776 feet (541 m) measured to the top of its spire, became the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere and
15210-423: The eleventh-busiest rapid transit rail system in the world. The subway carried 2,027,286,000 unlinked, non-unique riders in 2023. Daily ridership has been calculated since 1985; the record, over 6.2 million, was set on October 29, 2015. The system is also one of the world's longest. Overall, the system contains 248 miles (399 km) of routes, translating into 665 miles (1,070 km) of revenue track and
15405-644: The extension of the IRT Flushing Line and the IND Second Avenue Line . Since the opening of the original New York City Subway line in 1904, multiple official and planning agencies have proposed numerous extensions to the subway system. One of the more expansive proposals was the " IND Second System", part of a plan to construct new subway lines in addition to taking over existing subway lines and railroad rights-of-way. The most grandiose IND Second Subway plan, conceived in 1929,
15600-624: The topography and create the English-style pastoral landscape that Olmsted and Vaux sought. The remaining 70% of Manhattan's parkland includes 204 playgrounds, 251 Greenstreets, 371 basketball courts , and many other amenities. The next-largest park in Manhattan, the Hudson River Park , stretches 4.5 miles (7.2 km) along the Hudson River and comprises 550 acres (220 ha). Other major parks include: Manhattan
15795-527: The world's tallest building . Manhattan's majority white ethnic group declined from 98.7% in 1900 to 58.3% by 1990. On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Greenwich Village killed 146 garment workers , leading to overhauls of the city's fire department, building codes , and workplace safety regulations. In 1912, about 20,000 workers, a quarter of them women, marched upon Washington Square Park to commemorate
15990-745: The 1,537,195 counted in the 2000 census . In 2010, the largest organized religious group in Manhattan was the Archdiocese of New York , with 323,325 Catholics worshiping at 109 parishes, followed by 64,000 Orthodox Jews with 77 congregations, an estimated 42,545 Muslims with 21 congregations, 42,502 non-denominational adherents with 54 congregations, 26,178 TEC Episcopalians with 46 congregations, 25,048 ABC-USA Baptists with 41 congregations, 24,536 Reform Jews with 10 congregations, 23,982 Mahayana Buddhists with 35 congregations, 10,503 PC-USA Presbyterians with 30 congregations, and 10,268 RCA Presbyterians with 10 congregations. Altogether, 44.0% of
16185-711: The 1920s, Manhattan experienced large arrivals of African-Americans as part of the Great Migration from the southern United States, and the Harlem Renaissance , part of a larger boom time in the Prohibition era that included new skyscrapers competing for the skyline, with the Woolworth Building (1913), 40 Wall Street (1930), Chrysler Building (1930) and the Empire State Building (1931) leapfrogging each other to take their place as
16380-440: The 1970s, job losses due to industrial restructuring caused New York City, including Manhattan, to suffer from economic problems and rising crime rates. While a resurgence in the financial industry greatly improved the city's economic health in the 1980s, New York's crime rate continued to increase through the decade and into the beginning of the 1990s. The 1980s saw a rebirth of Wall Street , and Manhattan reclaimed its role as
16575-410: The 1970s. In November 2016, the New York City Subway had 6712 cars on the roster. A typical New York City Subway train consists of 8 to 11 cars, although shuttles can have as few as two, and the train can range from 150 to 600 feet (46 to 183 m) in length. The system maintains two separate fleets of cars, one for the A Division routes and another for the B Division routes. A Division equipment
16770-450: The 1980s, make the current fleet of subway cars graffiti-free, as well as order 1,775 new subway cars. By the early 1990s, conditions had improved significantly, although maintenance backlogs accumulated during those 20 years are still being fixed today. Entering the 21st century, progress continued despite several disasters. The September 11 attacks resulted in service disruptions on lines running through Lower Manhattan, particularly
16965-417: The 19th century, the island was named so for a grove of hickory trees at its southern end that was considered ideal for the making of bows. In April 1524, Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano , sailing in service of Francis I of France , became the first documented European to visit the area that would become New York City. Verrazzano entered the tidal strait now known as The Narrows and named
17160-415: The 2020–2024 Capital Program. This would allow one of every two to four stations on every line to be accessible, so that all non-accessible stops would be a maximum of two stops from an accessible station. In 2022, the MTA agreed in a settlement to make 95 percent of subway and Staten Island Railway stations accessible by 2055. By comparison, all but one of Boston's MBTA subway stations are accessible,
17355-524: The ADA. (Most grade-level stations required little modification to meet ADA standards.) Many accessible stations have AutoGate access. In addition, the MTA identified "key stations", high-traffic and/or geographically important stations, which must conform to the ADA when they are extensively renovated. Under plans from the MTA in 2016, the number of ADA accessible stations would go up to 144 by 2020. As of May 2024 , there were 145 ADA-accessible stations. Over
17550-567: The Atlantic port to the vast agricultural markets of the Midwestern United States and Canada . Tammany Hall , a Democratic Party political machine , began to grow in influence with the support of many of the immigrant Irish , culminating in the election of the first Tammany mayor, Fernando Wood , in 1854. Covering 840 acres (340 ha) in the center of the island, Central Park , which opened its first portions to
17745-470: The Broadway elevation is designed in a very similar manner to the outer bays of the 32nd Street elevation. The main differences are that, on the sixth story, the center window of the northern section is flanked by a pair of shields. In addition, the roof is slightly asymmetrical, with a square tower rising from the northern section. The 33rd Street elevation is part of the original hotel and contains many of
17940-593: The City of New York since the inception of the IND and the other divisions beginning in 1948 are identified by the letter "R" followed by a number; e.g.: R32 . This number is the contract number under which the cars were purchased. Cars with nearby contract numbers (e.g.: R1 through R9 , or R26 through R29 , or R143 through R179 ) may be relatively identical, despite being purchased under different contracts and possibly built by different manufacturers. From 1999 to 2019,
18135-571: The East River; and Governors Island and Liberty Island to the south in New York Harbor . The Island is about 13.4 miles (21.6 km) from north to south, and at its widest, 2.3 miles (3.7 km). Manhattan Island is loosely divided into Downtown ( Lower Manhattan ), Midtown ( Midtown Manhattan ), and Uptown ( Upper Manhattan ), with Fifth Avenue dividing Manhattan lengthwise into its East Side and West Side . Manhattan Island
18330-708: The English Duke of York and Albany , the future King James II. In August 1673, the Dutch reconquered the colony, renaming it "New Orange", but permanently relinquished it back to England the following year under the terms of the Treaty of Westminster that ended the Third Anglo-Dutch War . Manhattan was at the heart of the New York Campaign , a series of major battles in the early stages of
18525-721: The Hotel Martinique on the north side of 34th Street, east of Broadway. The Martinique also wrapped around a 20-story hotel at the southeast corner of Broadway and 33rd Street. An entrance to the New York City Subway 's 34th Street–Herald Square station and to the PATH system's adjacent 33rd Street station is directly outside the hotel, within Greeley Square . The hotel is variously described as being 16, 17, or 19 stories high. The design "capitalized on
18720-567: The Hotel Martinique, against the recommendation of German spy George John Dasch . In September 1947, the Martinique's managers attempted to raise the rent for its permanent guests by 30 percent. The New York Supreme Court initially ruled against the hotel's managers in early 1948, but the Appellate Division subsequently reversed the Supreme Court's ban. Kridel continued to manage the hotel until September 1954, when he sold
18915-536: The Lenape throughout Manhattan. The name Manhattan originated from the Lenape 's language, Munsee , manaháhtaan (where manah- means "gather", -aht- means " bow ", and -aan is an abstract element used to form verb stems ). The Lenape word has been translated as "the place where we get bows" or "place for gathering the (wood to make) bows". According to a Munsee tradition recorded by Albert Seqaqkind Anthony in
19110-487: The Martinique Hotel as a franchise of the Days Inn chain. The Martinique sat vacant through the mid-1990s, even as Thurman gradually renovated the interior. By 1994, the renovation had stalled because of increasing costs, and the owner and lessee were involved in a legal dispute over the Martinique's renovation. For several years, Thurman struggled to obtain financing for the hotel. In 1996, Thurman announced plans to operate
19305-567: The Martinique was included in a contemporary real-estate journal article about apartment hotels. The uptown store of Rogers Peet was in the same building. Martin began running a series of short ads to introduce his house, the ads appearing several times a week in the Sun and Times . Although the hotel opened in 1898 as a speculative investment , it instantly became popular. The Real Estate Record and Guide wrote in April 1899 that "the Martinique has
19500-609: The United Nations is located in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan. Manhattan hosts three of the world's top 10 most-visited tourist attractions: Times Square , Central Park , and Grand Central Terminal . Penn Station is the busiest transportation hub in the Western Hemisphere . Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere. Fifth Avenue
19695-719: The United States , from March 4, 1789, to August 12, 1790, at Federal Hall . Federal Hall was where the United States Supreme Court met for the first time, the United States Bill of Rights were drafted and ratified, and where the Northwest Ordinance was adopted, establishing measures for admission to the Union of new states. New York grew as an economic center, first as a result of Alexander Hamilton 's policies and practices as
19890-615: The abandoned LIRR Rockaway Beach Branch (now the IND Rockaway Line ), which opened in 1955. Two stations ( 57th Street and Grand Street ) were part of the Chrystie Street Connection , and opened in 1968; the Harlem–148th Street terminal opened that same year in an unrelated project. Six were built as part of a 1968 plan : three on the Archer Avenue Lines , opened in 1988, and three on
20085-500: The area. Martin had purchased the first part of the plot in 1892 and expanded it in 1893 and 1895; he then hired Henry Janeway Hardenbergh to design a French Renaissance-style hotel on the site. Hardenbergh filed plans for the new hotel in July 1897. The hotel, located at 54–58 West 33rd Street, was planned to be 16 stories high and was budgeted at $ 400,000. The Hotel Martinique was originally intended as an apartment hotel . A floor plan of
20280-526: The arriving train to identify it. There are several common platform configurations. On a double track line, a station may have one center island platform used for trains in both directions, or two side platforms , one for each direction. For lines with three or four tracks with express service, local stops will have side platforms and the middle one or two tracks will not stop at the station. On these lines, express stations typically have two island platforms, one for each direction. Each island platform provides
20475-507: The beginning of September 1988. Subsequently, the New York City government began relocating 443 families from the hotel. The hotel had been closed by the end of December 1988, and the last homeless families had left the Martinique by the beginning of the next month. The displaced families were relocated to permanent apartments in other shelters; units in New York City Housing Authority developments; apartments that
20670-414: The building to Robert Selby and Eugene Moses. From 1973 until the end of 1988, the Martinique was a welfare hotel housing hundreds of families. The welfare hotel gained a negative reputation across the U.S. and was the setting for Jonathan Kozol 's 1988 study, Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America . Developer Harold Thurman leased the building from the owners in 1989, and he reopened it under
20865-566: The building to Robert Selby and Eugene Moses; the hotel was then assessed at $ 1.8 million. The new owners took title to the hotel the next month and began planning a renovation of the property. In anticipation of the opening of the New York Coliseum , the Heritage Hotel Group announced plans in early 1956 to renovate the hotel for $ 1 million. The work involved renovating all guest rooms, adding air conditioning throughout
21060-421: The center and outermost bays of the central pavilion, the windows on the second and third stories are separated horizontally by decorative spandrel panels and flanked by vertical moldings, and there are broken pediments and crests above the third-story windows. In the five center bays, the remaining windows are plainly decorated, and a molded frieze runs above the second-story windows. In the four outermost bays,
21255-427: The center of the ground level, which is topped by a projecting marquee. Directly above the marquee is a frieze with the name "Hotel Martinique", as well as an escutcheon on either side of the frieze. The outermost ground-level bays contain windows or doors. The second through fourth stories contain a rusticated stone facade with nine windows on each story. Each of the windows contains an iron railing in front of it. In
21450-425: The central 6th-story window is ornately decorated with shields and a pediment. Some of the eighth- and tenth-story windows contain balconettes . A Greek key molding runs above the eleventh story. There are terracotta shells flanking the windows on the twelfth and thirteenth stories; the windows on the thirteenth story are also topped by double keystones and contain sills with volutes below them. Large brackets support
21645-534: The city became a hotbed of revolution (including anarchists and communists among others), syndicalism , racketeering , and unionization . In 1883, the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge across the East River established a road connection to Brooklyn and the rest of Long Island . In 1898, New York City consolidated with three neighboring counties to form "the City of Greater New York ", and Manhattan
21840-455: The city government had renovated; or their own accommodations. The hotel's owners were banned from demolishing the hotel or converting it to another use because of a New York City law that sought to preserve single room occupancy hotels. The owners, who wished to market the space to Koreatown merchants, sought an exemption from the law. Developer Harold Thurman leased the building from Seasons Affiliates for 99 years in 1989, with plans to reopen
22035-578: The city's skyline, most notably the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and 30 Rockefeller Plaza . A postwar economic boom led to the development of huge housing developments targeted at returning veterans, the largest being Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village , which opened in 1947. The United Nations relocated to a new headquarters that was completed in 1952 along the East River. The Stonewall riots were
22230-1003: The coldest winter month. Spring and autumn are unpredictable and can range from chilly to warm, although they are usually mild with low humidity. Summers are typically warm to hot and humid, with a daily mean temperature of 76.5 °F (24.7 °C) in July. Nighttime conditions are often exacerbated by the urban heat island phenomenon, which causes heat absorbed during the day to be radiated back at night, raising temperatures by as much as 7 °F (4 °C) when winds are slow. Daytime temperatures exceed 90 °F (32 °C) on average of 17 days each summer and in some years exceed 100 °F (38 °C). Extreme temperatures have ranged from −15 °F (−26 °C), recorded on February 9, 1934, up to 106 °F (41 °C) on July 9, 1936. Manhattan lies in USDA plant hardiness zone 7b (5 to 10 °F/-15 to -12.2 °C). Manhattan receives 49.9 inches (1,270 mm) of precipitation annually, which
22425-410: The complexity of the system (Manhattan being the smallest borough, but having the most services), but they do show major city streets as an aid to navigation. The newest edition took effect on June 27, 2010, and makes Manhattan bigger and Staten Island smaller, with minor tweaks happening to the map when more permanent changes occur. Earlier diagrams of the subway, the first being produced in 1958, had
22620-464: The corner of Broadway and 32nd Street is a one-bay-wide chamfered corner, which separates the Broadway and 32nd Street elevations. The three southern bays on Broadway were built as part of the 1911 expansion and are spaced widely, similar to the 32nd Street elevation. The three northern bays, constructed as part of the 1903 expansion, are more narrowly spaced and slightly project from the facade. The ground level contains storefronts and windows. Otherwise,
22815-425: The correct platform without having to cross the street before entering. Inside mezzanines are fare control areas, where passengers physically pay their fare to enter the subway system. In many older stations, the fare control area is at platform level with no mezzanine crossovers. Many elevated stations also have platform-level fare control with no common station house between directions of service. Upon entering
23010-458: The cultural, financial, media , and entertainment capital of the world. Present-day Manhattan was originally part of Lenape territory. European settlement began with the establishment of a trading post by Dutch colonists in 1624 on southern Manhattan Island; the post was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The territory and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted
23205-472: The decade to 1,694,250, representing 19.2% of New York City's population of 8,804,194 and 8.4% of New York State's population of 20,201,230. The population density of New York County was 70,450.8 inhabitants per square mile (27,201.2/km ) in 2022, the highest population density of any county in the United States and higher than the density of any individual U.S. city . At the 2010 census , there were 1,585,873 people living in Manhattan, an increase of 3.2% from
23400-407: The demarcation line for east/west designations. South of Waverly Place , Fifth Avenue terminates and Broadway becomes the east/west demarcation line. In Manhattan, uptown means north and downtown means south. This usage differs from that of most American cities, where downtown refers to the central business district. As of the 2020 census , Manhattan's population had increased by 6.8% over
23595-407: The end of 2020, the hotel's operators defaulted on their mortgage. By early the following year, Herald Hotel was seeking to sell its lease of the Martinique Hotel, which was scheduled to run for another 68 years. However, the hotel had trouble attracting buyers because the lease was expensive, the building was a landmark, and the hotel required $ 15 million in repairs to its facade. Burnett Equities ,
23790-448: The facade had become extremely shabby. The hotel's owners also removed asbestos from the lobby in 1987, but city officials had not authorized the work. After the administration of U.S. president Ronald Reagan threatened to withdraw $ 70 million in federal funding, in 1988, mayor Ed Koch announced that he would close 46 welfare hotels within two years. The first of these hotels to close was the Martinique, which stopped accepting guests at
23985-511: The fire. Many of the women wore fitted tucked-front blouses like those manufactured by the company, a clothing style that became the working woman's uniform and a symbol of women's liberation , reflecting the alliance of the labor and suffrage movements. Despite the Great Depression , some of the world's tallest skyscrapers were completed in Manhattan during the 1930s, including numerous Art Deco masterpieces that are still part of
24180-610: The first Secretary of the Treasury to expand the city's role as a center of commerce and industry. By 1810, New York City, then confined to Manhattan, had surpassed Philadelphia as the most populous city in the United States. The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 laid out the island of Manhattan in its familiar grid plan . The city's role as an economic center grew with the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, cutting transportation costs by 90% compared to road transport and connecting
24375-428: The first decade of the 20th century. One block to the east, new department store buildings were quickly being developed on Fifth Avenue . Because of growing demand for these theaters and department stores, numerous hotels were developed on Broadway between Madison Square and Times Square during the late 19th and early 20th century, including the Martinique. The opening of Pennsylvania Station , Macy's Herald Square , and
24570-558: The first demonstration for an underground transit system in New York City in 1869 and opened it in February 1870. His Beach Pneumatic Transit only extended 312 feet (95 m) under Broadway in Lower Manhattan operating from Warren Street to Murray Street and exhibited his idea for an atmospheric railway as a subway. The tunnel was never extended for political and financial reasons. Today, no part of this line remains as
24765-482: The five-cent fare of the time, or 10¢ ($ 3 in 2023 dollars ). In 1940, the city bought the two private systems. Some elevated lines ceased service immediately while others closed soon after. Integration was slow, but several connections were built between the IND and BMT. These now operate as one division, called the B Division . Since the former IRT tunnels are narrower, have sharper curves, and shorter station platforms, they cannot accommodate B Division cars, and
24960-400: The former IRT remains its own division, the A Division . Many passenger transfers between stations of all three former companies have been created, allowing the entire network to be treated as a single unit. During the late 1940s, the system recorded high ridership, and on December 23, 1946, the system-wide record of 8,872,249 fares was set. The New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA),
25155-491: The highest sale price per square foot in the United States. Manhattan is home to Wall Street as well as the world's two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization , the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq . Many multinational media conglomerates are based in Manhattan, as are numerous colleges and universities, such as Columbia University and New York University . The headquarters of
25350-420: The hotel for the past 15 years, as the hotel's architect of record in 2022. Burnett then restarted the renovation project, expanding the retail space from six to seven storefronts, as well as completing renovations to the guest rooms and the lower section of the facade. Crain's New York wrote at the time: "The parts of the Martinique that have held on across more than a century—the tiles, the baroque molding and
25545-440: The hotel housed 300 families, along with 175 "discharges from mental hospitals, addicts, and alcoholics". The Washington Post estimated in 1987 that one-sixth of the city's 12,000 homeless children lived at the Martinique, even though the hotel lacked basic facilities such as kitchens in each room. By December 1985, the Martinique housed over 1,400 children in 389 families; eighteen months later, there were 438 families. According to
25740-423: The hotel on 33rd Street opened in 1898 and originally operated as an apartment hotel . The Martinique was expanded twice, in 1901–1903 and 1907–1911. Martin sold the hotel in 1919 to T. Coleman du Pont of the Greeley Square Company. Louis Markel's 56 East 59th Street Corporation acquired the hotel in 1929 and lost it to foreclosure two years later. Frank W. Kridel operated the hotel from 1939 to 1954, when he sold
25935-476: The hotel opened, all of the rooms faced the street, even though there were no light courts to provide natural illumination inside the building. The hotel also contained water filters and soundproof partitions. Originally, guests could have their breakfast delivered directly to their rooms. The suites facing the corner of Broadway and 32nd Street contained elliptical parlors. In 2006, the hotel had 14,000 square feet (1,300 m) of convention space, which included
26130-520: The hotel was under construction. The lobby is still extant but has been redecorated in yellow and blue as of 2022. After the 1911 expansion, a corridor extended between the lobby on 32nd Street and a foyer on 33rd Street. The main public rooms were designed in a style that, according to contemporary sources, was inspired by the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre . The Broadway Cafe was to the left (west) of
26325-494: The hotel's managers transported guests' baggage to and from the station free of charge. In the 1910s, the hotel housed some long-term residents, such as physician Cornelia A. Walker and former New York deputy attorney general Job E. Hedges . The hotel also hosted such events as the New York State Bankers' Association's annual meetings, as well as luncheons for local civic group Broadway Association. The Martinique
26520-479: The hotel, and restoring the ballrooms. About 300 of the hotel's 650 rooms were being completed before mid-1956. Tourism in New York City had suffered during the 1960s and 1970s, leading many hotel operators to convert their hotels into apartment buildings. In 1972 or 1973, the American Red Cross and the government of New York City started using the Martinique as a homeless shelter for families. Over
26715-414: The hotel. In August 1930, the media reported that a Chicago-based department store was considering paying $ 9 million for the Martinique and neighboring structures, then redeveloping the site. However, two companies signed long-term leases for storefronts in the hotel the following month, preventing the department store's development for the time being. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company foreclosed on
26910-461: The hotel. In addition, a bistro and a supper club opened within the hotel, supplementing a cafe and an Asian restaurant that already operated within the Martinique. In 2018, the hotel's lessees Herald Hotel Associates decided to instead partner with Hilton Hotels & Resorts , saying that the Radisson partnership was not as profitable as Herald Hotels had desired. The Hilton partnership included
27105-504: The hurricane included the restoration of the new South Ferry station from 2012 to 2017; the full closure of the Montague Street Tunnel from 2013 to 2014; and the partial 14th Street Tunnel shutdown from 2019 to 2020. Annual ridership on the New York City Subway system, which totaled nearly 1.7 billion in 2019, declined dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic and did not surpass one billion again until 2022. When
27300-473: The land around Upper New York Harbor New Angoulême , in reference to the family name of King Francis I; he sailed far enough into the harbor to sight the Hudson River , and he named the Bay of Santa Margarita – what is now Upper New York Bay – after Marguerite de Navarre , the elder sister of the king. Manhattan was first mapped during a 1609 voyage of Henry Hudson . Hudson came across Manhattan Island and
27495-499: The lands to his brother, the Duke of York . New York, based in present-day Lower Manhattan , served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor greeted millions of arriving immigrants in the late 19th century and is a world symbol of the United States and its ideals. Manhattan became a borough during the consolidation of New York City in 1898 , and houses New York City Hall ,
27690-463: The line at the beginning of 2017. Many rapid transit systems run relatively static routings, so that a train "line" is more or less synonymous with a train "route". In New York City, routings change often, for various reasons. Within the nomenclature of the subway , the "line" describes the physical railroad track or series of tracks that a train "route" uses on its way from one terminal to another. "Routes" (also called "services") are distinguished by
27885-403: The lines and leased them to the companies. The first line of the city-owned and operated Independent Subway System (IND) opened in 1932. This system was intended to compete with the private systems and allow some of the elevated railways to be torn down but stayed within the core of the city due to its small startup capital. This required it to be run 'at cost', necessitating fares up to double
28080-556: The lobby and could be accessed both from Broadway and from the corridor between 32nd and 33rd Streets. The cafe contained walls of light-colored, artificial stone, and its ceiling was treated in the Italian Renaissance style, ornamented in low relief. It was ornamented with Italian-marble columns as well as Pompeiian-style wall panels. A 1910 brochure stated: "The Gentlemen’s Broadway Cafe is a veritable architectural gem. The walls and columns of Italian marble give to this room
28275-621: The managers. Work on the planned annex stalled for two years because Martin wished to relocate the Rogers Peet store to the Marbridge Building , which he was constructing two blocks north, before beginning work on the annex. Hardenbergh filed plans for the second annex in October 1907, and the Rogers Peet store moved to the first three stories of the Marbridge Building. The firm of Moran and Jones designed 388 rooms in
28470-458: The marble stairs—will continue to stand the test of time." The LPC approved the proposed exterior renovations in August 2023. The hotel's history has a long association with the history of golf in the United States. The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) was established at the hotel on April 10, 1916, where 35 charter members and 78 golf professionals formed to create what was then
28665-618: The matter was definitively settled later that year when the New York Legislature overwhelmingly passed legislation declaring the neighborhood part of both New York County and the Borough of Manhattan. Within New York Harbor , there are three smaller islands: Other smaller islands, in the East River , include (from north to south): The bedrock underlying much of Manhattan consists of three rock formations: Inwood marble , Fordham gneiss , and Manhattan schist , and
28860-408: The middle of the Broadway frontage erected in 1901–1903. The section at the corner of 32nd Street and Broadway, including the entire 32nd Street frontage, was erected in 1909–1911. The original hotel measured 68 feet (21 m) wide, while the annex on Broadway measured 39 feet (12 m) wide. The 1911 addition was of French Renaissance design, carried out in a general way in the interior though there
29055-636: The moderating effects of the Atlantic Ocean , yet the Atlantic and the partial shielding from colder air by the Appalachians keep the city warmer in the winter than inland North American cities at similar or lesser latitudes. The daily mean temperature in January, the area's coldest month, is 32.6 °F (0.3 °C); temperatures usually drop to 10 °F (−12 °C) several times per winter, and reach 60 °F (16 °C) several days in
29250-774: The modern-day New York City Subway system were already in service by then. The oldest structure still in use opened in 1885 as part of the BMT Lexington Avenue Line in Brooklyn and is now part of the BMT Jamaica Line . The oldest right-of-way, which is part of the BMT West End Line near Coney Island Creek , was in use in 1864 as a steam railroad called the Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Rail Road . The first underground line of
29445-463: The most stations, with 472 stations in operation (423, if stations connected by transfers are counted as single stations). The system has operated 24/7 service every day of the year throughout most of its history, barring emergencies and disasters. By annual ridership, the New York City Subway is the busiest rapid transit system in both the Western Hemisphere and the Western world , as well as
29640-473: The native people living there, and continued up the river that would later bear his name, the Hudson River . Manhattan was first recorded in writing as Manna-hata , in the logbook of Robert Juet, an officer on the voyage. A permanent European presence in New Netherland began in 1624, with the founding of a Dutch fur trading settlement on Governors Island . In 1625, construction was started on
29835-533: The neighboring McAlpin Hotel, bought the Martinique from the Martin family in October 1919. The Martinique was renamed the McAlpin Annex the same month. The hotel's manager Frank E. Jago restored the Hotel Martinique's original name in May 1921, saying that the McAlpin Annex name had created confusion. The Pennsylvania Drug Company leased a storefront on the southern side of the ground story the same year, within
30030-442: The neighboring lots at 1266 and 1268 Broadway, leased the site to Martin. George then filed plans for a 16-story annex for the Martinique Hotel in November 1900, to be designed by Hardenbergh. The Construction News wrote in 1901 that the annex "is said to be the first hotel building in the world to use fireproof wood throughout". The first annex was completed around 1903. In June 1905, Martin rehired Hardenbergh to design an annex on
30225-483: The new annex. The expansion opened on December 21, 1910, at which point daily room rates ranged from $ 3.50 to $ 6.00 and up. Walter Chandler managed the newly expanded hotel, which could accommodate 1,200 diners and 1,000 transient guests in 600 guest rooms. The development of the second annex had coincided with the opening of Penn Station and the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad terminal. To attract visitors from Penn Station,
30420-411: The next two decades, the New York City government spent over $ 1 million per year to use the hotel as a shelter. Initially, the Martinique was a temporary shelter, housing families for only a short period of time. Over the years, the hotel typically housed families who could not be assigned to shelters in their own boroughs due to overcrowding, as well as those displaced by fire. The hotel became infamous as
30615-416: The northeast corner of Broadway and 32nd Street, which at the time was occupied by the Rogers Peet store at 1260 Broadway. The new annex was to measure 100 feet (30 m) on Broadway and 125 feet (38 m) on 32nd Street. That November, Martin bought several adjacent row houses at 42–52 West 33rd Street. A set of restaurants and a cafe opened within the hotel in 1906; at the time, William Taylor and Son were
30810-414: The openness of Greeley Square" (now Herald Square ). A 1918 publication stated: "New York is noted for its beautiful buildings, and the Martinique is no exception". The building is a New York City designated landmark and is also part of the Historic Hotels of America . The hotel was constructed in three sections. The original building on 33rd Street was erected in 1897–1898, followed by an extension to
31005-466: The original World Trade Center , which was destroyed during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks . Situated on one of the world's largest natural harbors , the borough is bounded by the Hudson , East , and Harlem rivers and includes several small adjacent islands , including Roosevelt , U Thant , and Randalls and Wards Islands . It also includes the small neighborhood of Marble Hill now on
31200-404: The perception of being more geographically inaccurate than the diagrams today. The design of the subway map by Massimo Vignelli , published by the MTA between 1972 and 1979, has become a modern classic but the MTA deemed the map flawed due to its placement of geographical elements. A late night-only version of the map was introduced on January 30, 2012. On September 16, 2011, the MTA introduced
31395-848: The population was claimed as members by religious congregations, although members of historically African-American denominations were underrepresented due to incomplete information. In 2014, Manhattan had 703 religious organizations, the seventeenth most out of all US counties. There is a large Buddhist temple in Manhattan located at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge in Chinatown . As of 2015, 60.0% (927,650) of Manhattan residents, aged five and older, spoke only English at home, while 22.63% (350,112) spoke Spanish, 5.37% (83,013) Chinese, 2.21% (34,246) French, 0.85% (13,138) Korean, 0.72% (11,135) Russian, and 0.70% (10,766) Japanese. In total, 40.0% of Manhattan's population, aged five and older, spoke
31590-443: The population, along with visitors, tourists, and commuting students. The commuter influx of 1.61 million workers coming into Manhattan was the largest of any county or city in the country. New York City Subway July 3, 1868 ; 156 years ago ( 1868-07-03 ) (first elevated, rapid transit operation) [REDACTED] The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system in New York City serving
31785-544: The public in 1858, became the first landscaped public park in an American city. New York City played a complex role in the American Civil War . The city had strong commercial ties to the South , but anger around conscription , resentment against Lincoln's war policies and paranoia about free Blacks taking the jobs of poor immigrants culminated in the three-day-long New York Draft Riots of July 1863, among
31980-447: The rest reopened in September 2002, along with service south of Chambers Street. Cortlandt Street reopened in September 2018. In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy flooded several underwater tunnels and other facilities near New York Harbor , as well as trackage over Jamaica Bay . The immediate damage was fixed within six months, but long-term resiliency and rehabilitation projects continued for several years. The recovery projects after
32175-477: The routes proposed over the decades have never seen construction, discussion remains strong to develop some of these lines, to alleviate existing subway capacity constraints and overcrowding, the most notable being the proposals for the Second Avenue Subway . Plans for new lines date back to the early 1910s, and expansion plans have been proposed during many years of the system's existence. After
32370-403: The routes that would normally run on these lines. The Transit Authority announces planned service changes through its website, via placards that are posted on station and interior subway-car walls, and through its Twitter page. Current official transit maps of the New York City Subway are based on a 1979 design by Michael Hertz Associates . The maps are not geographically accurate due to
32565-430: The same decorative elements as the later 32nd Street and Broadway elevations. The ground level has been converted to storefronts, but the remaining stories have the same design as on the other elevations. The center three bays project slightly from the facade. The window openings in the central bay are wider than in the other bays, although the center bay's windows have been sealed up. The central sixth-story opening contains
32760-402: The seat of the city's government . Harlem in Upper Manhattan became the center of what is now known as the cultural Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village , part of the Stonewall National Monument , is considered the birthplace in 1969 of the modern gay rights movement , cementing Manhattan's central role in LGBT culture . Manhattan was the site of
32955-494: The second-story windows are topped by geometric lintels , while those on the third story are topped by broken pediments and crests. Above all of the fourth-story windows are voussoirs , which are flanked by brackets that support a balcony on the fifth story. The balcony itself contains a cast-iron balustrade. On the fifth through eleventh stories, most windows contain plain sills and are surrounded by eared terracotta frames. The fifth-story windows contain volutes above them, and
33150-442: The shorelines of the borough and the metropolitan area to minimize the risk of destructive consequences from another such event in the future. On October 31, 2017 , a terrorist drove a truck down a bike path alongside the West Side Highway in Lower Manhattan, killing eight. According to the United States Census Bureau , New York County has a total area of 33.6 square miles (87 km ), of which 22.8 square miles (59 km )
33345-401: The shuttered Martinique as a 530-room Holiday Inn hotel as part of a franchise agreement. Preservationists expressed concerns that Holiday Inn would significantly modify the hotel's facade. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the hotel as a New York City landmark on May 5, 1998. The Martinique reopened in October 1998 as the Holiday Inn Martinique on Broadway . At
33540-432: The sidewalk, prompted the passage of the 1916 Zoning Resolution , requiring new buildings to contain setbacks withdrawing progressively at a defined angle from the street as they rose, in order to preserve a view of the sky at street level. Manhattan's skyline includes several buildings that are symbolic of New York, in particular the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building , which sees about 4 million visitors
33735-424: The site was used to expand the Manhattan shoreline across West Street, creating Battery Park City . Constructed on piers at a cost of $ 260 million, Little Island opened on the Hudson River in May 2021, connected to the western termini of 13th and 14th Streets by footbridges . Marble Hill was part of the northern tip of Manhattan Island, but the Harlem River Ship Canal , dug in 1895 to better connect
33930-414: The space originally occupied by the dining room. As a result, a new restaurant was built on the northern side of the ground story. By the 1920s, the entertainment district around Herald Square had largely relocated northward to Times Square. Harry F. Young, a climber who was scaling the hotel for a film, fell nine stories to his death in 1923, prompting the New York City Council to ban "street exhibitions of
34125-465: The state and city governments paid 25 percent each. Children who lived at the hotel had no dedicated play area; The New York Times wrote in 1983 that "the stench of urine and marijuana is everywhere". As a result, the hotel's children often used drugs, shoplifted, and harassed bystanders in Herald Square. In 1986, Manhattan Community Board 5 provided funding to convert the hotel's former ballroom (which had been used as storage space since 1956) into
34320-480: The structure began in October 1963. The loss of Penn Station led directly to the enactment in 1965 of a local law establishing the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission , which is responsible for preserving the "city's historic, aesthetic, and cultural heritage ". The historic preservation movement triggered by Penn Station's demise has been credited with the retention of some one million structures nationwide, including over 1,000 in New York City. In 2017,
34515-569: The subway opened on October 27, 1904, almost 36 years after the opening of the first elevated line in New York City (which became the IRT Ninth Avenue Line ). The 9.1-mile (14.6 km) subway line, then called the "Manhattan Main Line", ran from City Hall station northward under Lafayette Street (then named Elm Street) and Park Avenue (then named Fourth Avenue) before turning westward at 42nd Street . It then curved northward again at Times Square , continuing under Broadway before terminating at 145th Street station in Harlem . Its operation
34710-508: The subway system runs on surface or elevated tracks, including steel or cast-iron elevated structures , concrete viaducts , embankments , open cuts and surface routes. As of 2019 , there are 168 miles (270 km) of elevated tracks. All of these construction methods are completely grade-separated from road and pedestrian crossings, and most crossings of two subway tracks are grade-separated with flying junctions . The sole exceptions of at-grade junctions of two lines in regular service are
34905-402: The tea room was the Flemish-style banquet room, furnished in dark oak. A mezzanine, overlooking the hotel's ground-level corridor, contained space for the hotel's orchestra, as well as reading and writing rooms. The hotel also contained ornate bronze elevator doors. The Martinique has 532 rooms. After the hotel's two annexes were completed, in 1910, it had 600 guest rooms and 400 bathrooms. When
35100-462: The time, rooms were being marketed at $ 215 to $ 295 per night, in what USA Today described as "a vivid manifestation of New York City's about-face". Carlson Hotels took over the hotel in 2006 and announced plans to renovate it as part of the Radisson chain. The hotel was rebranded as the Radisson Hotel Martinique on July 1, 2006, and the guest rooms were extensively renovated. Carlson proposed adding 6,000 square feet (560 m) of meeting space in
35295-407: The tunnel was completely within the limits of the present-day City Hall station under Broadway. The Great Blizzard of 1888 helped demonstrate the benefits of an underground transportation system. A plan for the construction of the subway was approved in 1894, and construction began in 1900. Even though the underground portions of the subway had yet to be built, several above-ground segments of
35490-441: The union's founding, there have been three union strikes over contract disputes with the MTA: 12 days in 1966 , 11 days in 1980 , and three days in 2005 . By the 1970s and 1980s, the New York City Subway was at an all-time low. Ridership had dropped to 1910s levels, and graffiti and crime were rampant. Maintenance was poor, and delays and track problems were common. Still, the NYCTA managed to open six new subway stations in
35685-668: The work. The foundations of tall buildings often ran near the subway construction, and in some cases needed underpinning to ensure stability. This method worked well for digging soft dirt and gravel near the street surface. Tunnelling shields were required for deeper sections, such as the Harlem and East River tunnels, which used cast-iron tubes. Rock or concrete-lined tunnels were used on segments from 33rd to 42nd streets under Park Avenue ; 116th to 120th Streets under Broadway ; 145th to Dyckman Streets (Fort George) under Broadway and St. Nicholas Avenue ; and 96th Street and Broadway to Central Park North and Lenox Avenue . About 40% of
35880-423: The world's financial center , with Wall Street employment doubling from 1977 to 1987. The 1980s also saw Manhattan at the heart of the AIDS crisis , with Greenwich Village at its epicenter. In the 1970s, Times Square and 42nd Street – with its sex shops , peep shows , and adult theaters, along with its sex trade , street crime, and public drug use – became emblematic of the city's decline, with
36075-448: The world's largest working sports organization. The Radisson Martinique was regularly the venue for announcing the American Ryder Cup team, as in 2008, when Paul Azinger announced the names of four team members. On August 31, 2011, the PGA Gallery at the Radisson Martinique was inaugurated, marking PGA's 95th anniversary. Manhattan Manhattan ( / m æ n ˈ h æ t ən , m ə n -/ man- HAT -ən, mən- )
36270-470: The world." By the 1990s, crime rates began to drop dramatically and the city once again became the destination of immigrants from around the world, joining with low interest rates and Wall Street bonus payments to fuel the growth of the real estate market. Important new sectors, such as Silicon Alley , emerged in the Flatiron District , cementing technology as a key component of Manhattan's economy. The 1993 World Trade Center bombing , described by
36465-427: The worst incidents of civil disorder in American history. The rate of immigration from Europe grew steeply after the Civil War, and Manhattan became the first stop for millions seeking a new life in the United States, a role acknowledged by the dedication of the Statue of Liberty in 1886. This immigration brought further social upheaval. In a city of tenements packed with poorly paid laborers from dozens of nations,
36660-538: The years, the MTA has been involved in a number of lawsuits over the lack of accessibility in its stations. The Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association filed what may have been the first of these suits in 1979, based on state law. The lawsuits have relied on a number of different legal bases, but most have centered around the MTA's failure to include accessibility as a part of its plans for remodeling various stations. As of January 2022 , ADA-accessibility projects are expected to be started or completed at 51 stations as part of
36855-422: Was a slight leaning toward the Spanish in the exterior details. The addition and the older structure were connected with a large courtyard between the two buildings, forming an angle at this point. The facade is clad with glazed brick, terracotta, and limestone. The 32nd Street elevation of the facade is divided vertically into nine bays , while the Broadway elevation is six bays wide and the 33rd Street elevation
37050-419: Was also a "Dutch room" with terracotta floors, hand-carved wainscoting on the walls, and murals depicting "quaint and picturesque Holland scenes". The modern-day hotel is served by two restaurants; the Petit Poulet serves French bistro cuisine, while the Martinique Cafe caters in international and American cuisine. Just underneath the Broadway Cafe, down a flight of marble stairs, was the Grill, decorated in
37245-438: Was established as one of the five boroughs of New York City . The Bronx remained part of New York County until 1914, when Bronx County was established. The construction of the New York City Subway , which opened in 1904, helped bind the new city together, as did the completion of the Williamsburg Bridge (1903) and Manhattan Bridge (1909) connecting to Brooklyn and the Queensboro Bridge (1909) connecting to Queens. In
37440-440: Was initially licensed to serve liquor at night, but the city government revoked this license in 1913. The hotel was the first in New York City to obtain a cabaret license; among its performers was vaudevillian Gus Edwards . The Omar Khayyam room served as the venue for the Gus Edwards Revue's "1918 Version of a Night with Omar Khayyam", a twice-nightly performance. T. Coleman du Pont of the Greeley Square Company, which operated
37635-412: Was leased to the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), and over 150,000 passengers paid the 5-cent fare ($ 2 in 2023 dollars ) to ride it on the first day of operation. By the late 1900s and early 1910s, the lines had been consolidated into two privately owned systems, the IRT and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT, later Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation , BMT). The city built most of
37830-439: Was opened in January 2021. Parkland covers a total of 2,659 acres (10.76 km ), accounting for 18.2% of the borough's land area; the 840-acre (3.4 km ) Central Park is the borough's largest park, comprising 31.6% of Manhattan's parkland. Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux , the park is anchored by the 12-acre (4.9 ha) Great Lawn and offers extensive walking tracks , two ice-skating rinks,
38025-410: Was to be part of the city-operated IND, and was to comprise almost 1 ⁄ 3 of the current subway system. By 1939, with unification planned, all three systems were included within the plan, which was ultimately never carried out. Many different plans were proposed over the years of the subway's existence, but expansion of the subway system mostly stopped during World War II . Though most of
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