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83-613: The Hotel Wolcott is a hotel at 4 West 31st Street , between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City . Constructed between 1902 and 1904 by developer William C. Dewey, it was designed by John H. Duncan in the French Beaux-Arts and neoclassical styles. The hotel's namesake was Henry Roger Wolcott, a businessman, politician, and philanthropist. The hotel

166-673: A frontage of 97 feet (30 m) and a depth of 98.75 feet (30.10 m). The Grand Hotel is on the same block to the west, while the Wilbraham is on the same block to the south. Other nearby buildings include the Marble Collegiate Church and the old Holland House to the south, Gilsey House to the southwest, the Aberdeen Hotel (17-21 West 32nd Street) to the north, and the Colony Club building and

249-489: A neo-Grec lobby, reception room, and ballroom. The upper floors are arranged in an "H" shape and originally contained various suites and rooms, which have been rearranged over the years into 160 guestrooms. Dewey acquired the site in 1902. The hotel opened on March 1, 1904, several months behind schedule, and Dewey had lost the Wolcott to foreclosure by that September. The Wolcott was operated by numerous individuals during

332-482: A 1991 application to demolish the house and replace it with an AIDS hospice with financing from the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe . Time Magazine was started at 141 East 17th Street. 18th Street has a local subway station at the crossing with Seventh Avenue , served by the 1 (and the 2 at late nights) on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line . There used to be an 18th Street station on

415-461: A ballroom covering 3,500 square feet (330 m). Originally an elaborate ballroom, it measured 100 by 50 feet (30 by 15 m) across and was designed in the Louis XVI style. The ballroom was decorated in a white, gray, and gold color scheme, with red plush hangings, and was illuminated by full-height windows on its rear wall. The decorations included Baroque -style moldings, a mosaic-tile floor,

498-421: A chandelier. The lobby ends at a check-in counter. A parlor and ladies' reception room led off the left (east) side of the vestibule, while a cafe and smoking room led off the right (west) side. The latter rooms contained a high leaded glass ceiling. To the right of the lobby was an office with green-and-white marble pilasters and counters, as well as a mosaic floor with an ornamental border and centerpiece. Near

581-599: A dead end, just before Avenue B, and runs to Greenwich Avenue, and the third part is from Eighth Avenue to Tenth Avenue . 14th Street is a main numbered street in Manhattan. It begins at Avenue C and ends at West Street. Its length is 3.4 km (2.1 mi). It has six subway stations: From Avenue A or Avenue C to West Street there is service M14A/D bus. At 6th Avenue, there is a PATH stop with service to Midtown Manhattan and New Jersey . Traffic on 15th Street moves from east to west. The street formerly started at

664-423: A dozen Palladian windows , a set of columns with scagliola -style plaster capitals , and a coffered ceiling . The ceiling is variously cited as measuring 20 feet (6.1 m) or 24 feet (7.3 m) high. A musicians' gallery with palms and shrubs overlooked the ballroom. The space had become a jazz club by the 1990s before being largely abandoned in the 2000s. The upper stories are arranged in an "H" shape, with

747-452: A hallway connecting to a pair of emergency staircases. Two passenger elevators and a freight elevator, clustered at the center of the hotel, also served all stories. There were telephones in each room and mail chutes in the hallways. According to a brochure published from the hotel's opening, every suite and almost every guestroom had a bathroom, and both the bedrooms and bathrooms were illuminated by natural light. The brochure also described

830-564: A lamp. The hotel also hosted events such as American League baseball meetings; at one such meeting in 1914, the New York Yankees were sold to Jacob Ruppert and Tillinghast Huston . The Commission Resident Buyers' Association of America opened a clubhouse on the Wolcott's mezzanine in 1928, using the main ballroom and the private dining rooms for meetings. In October 1932, the Wolcott Operating Company sold

913-499: A parlor and bathrooms. The hotel had its own restaurant, which, according to a contemporary brochure, served "little chicken that come unplucked from the Jersey farms" and Cape Cod oysters. In addition, the hotel hired porters to carry bags from nearby train stations, as well as a valet and a "ladies' maid". Because of the atypically long time that it had taken to construct the Wolcott, Dewey was unable to make payments on his mortgage. At

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996-545: A pedestrian road for a quarter of a block and turns back into a street. Then it runs the rest of the way to 12th Avenue. It runs on the north side of Hudson Yards and the south side of the Empire State Building . 35th Street runs from FDR Drive to Eleventh Avenue. Notable locations include East River Ferry , Mercy University Manhattan Campus, and the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center . 36th Street runs from

1079-441: A square tower topped by a striking gilded pyramid. Twenty-Seventh Street passes one block north of Madison Square Park and culminates at Bellevue Hospital on First Avenue . The segment of 27th Street east of Second Avenue is a pedestrian mall and passes through Bellevue South Park . There are three local subway stations on 28th Street: Also: 30th Street runs uninterrupted across the island from 12th Avenue to FDR Drive. It

1162-546: A temporary 175-room shelter for asylum seekers at the Wolcott, amid an increase in the number of people within the city who sought asylum in the United States . The city government also paid a contractor to cook Latin American food for the hotel's occupants. A writer for The New York Times wrote in 1980 that the Wolcott's design "show[s] the romantic extravagance once lavished on city hostelries". Another critic for

1245-467: A veritable galleon of copper cresting along the three-story-high mansard". Reviews of the service were mixed. The Los Angeles Times wrote in 1998 that the Wolcott was "old-fashioned but well maintained, and especially popular with Europeans". Similarly, The Daily Telegraph called the Wolcott a "faded hotel with a shabby-grand lobby and cramped rooms". A Chicago Tribune critic praised "the lobby's elaborate, turn-of-the-century decorative ceiling" and

1328-555: A vestibule leading to a lobby, both designed in the Neo-Grec style. The vestibule and lobby were decorated in verde antique green, white and gold. The 20-foot (6.1 m) ceiling had elaborate moldings, as well as gold-colored brackets . Some of the marble has been replaced with wood over the years, and the ceiling has been painted to match the color of the carpet. The modern lobby is in the Louis XVI style and has marble columns and

1411-440: Is 12 stories high and has light courts facing east and west, giving it an "H" shape. The Wolcott has a limestone and brick facade, with elaborate decorations. The facade is symmetrical and is divided vertically into six bays ; the two center bays comprise the main entrance. It is split horizontally into a two-story base, six-story midsection, and two-story capital. Most of the original facade decorations remain intact, but most of

1494-424: Is a New York City designated landmark . The hotel building is 12 stories tall. Its facade is largely made of red brick and limestone, with elaborate decorations. The facade is divided vertically into six bays and horizontally into a two-story base, a six-story midsection, a transitional story, and a three-story mansard roof . The hotel originally contained several ground-floor amenity areas for guests, including

1577-405: Is a metal-and-glass door, a ramp leading to an automatic sliding door , and a service entrance. To the west (right) is a wood-and-glass door with a semicircular glass pane above, followed by two of the original sash windows. There is a recessed areaway in front of the westernmost windows. Over the years, a metal sign with the hotel's name, security cameras, and an air-conditioner have been added to

1660-553: Is a pedestrian plaza between Third Avenue and Lexington Avenue , and ends at Madison. Then West 24th and 25th streets continue from Fifth Avenue to Eleventh Avenue (25th) or Twelfth Avenue (24th). 26th Street is all in one part and after reaching FDR Drive bends and runs parallel to FDR Drive up to 30th Street. 27th Street is a one-way street that runs from Second Avenue to the West Side Highway with an interruption between Eighth Avenue and Tenth Avenue . It

1743-499: Is alternatively known as Police Officer Anthony Sanchez Way. Along the northern perimeter of Gramercy Park, between Gramercy Park East and Gramercy Park West, 21st Street is known as Gramercy Park North. 23rd Street is another main numbered street in Manhattan. It begins at Avenue C/FDR Drive and ends at Eleventh Avenue. Its length is 3.1 km/1.9m. It has two-way travel. On 23rd Street there are five local subway stations providing uptown and downtown service only: Additionally, there

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1826-475: Is another oversized cartouche between the two center bays above the eighth story, with the name "Wolcott" carved into it. The ninth story has a stone facade and is treated as a "transitional story". On this story, the windows are recessed between pairs of large brackets that support a protruding copper cornice with giant dentils . The hotel building contains a triple-height mansard roof with copper cresting. The roof formerly had finials and other ornate details;

1909-452: Is called St Mark's Place, but it is counted in the length below. The M8 bus route operates eastbound on 8th Street and westbound on 9th Street between Avenue A and Sixth Avenue. 8th Street has one subway station: Eighth Street–New York University , served by the N , R and W Trains. ( N late nights and weekends, R all times except late nights, and W all times except late nights and weekends.) Amos, Hammond, and Troy Streets were in

1992-424: Is demarcated at Broadway below 8th Street , and at Fifth Avenue at 8th Street and above. The numbered streets carry crosstown traffic. In general, but with numerous exceptions, even-numbered streets are one-way eastbound and odd-numbered streets are one-way westbound. Most wider streets, and a few of the narrow ones, carry two-way traffic. Although the numbered streets begin just north of East Houston Street in

2075-472: Is for pedestrians only and resumes at Szold Place, which runs from north to south toward 10th Street as a continuation of the flow of traffic from East 12th Street which runs east to west from Avenue D to Szold Place. Additionally, Little West 12th Street runs parallel to West 13th Street from West Street to the northeast corner of Ninth Avenue and Gansevoort Street. 13th Street is in three parts. The first runs from Avenue C to Avenue D. The second starts at

2158-538: Is interrupted by Union Square It picks up again at Union Square West, and continues unimpeded to Eleventh Avenue at the Hudson River. Sights along 15th Street include: the southern border of Stuyvesant Square ; the landmarked Friends Meeting House and Seminary at Rutherford Place; Irving Plaza at Irving Place ; the Daryl Roth Theatre in the landmarked Union Square Savings Bank Building, across

2241-506: Is most noted for its strip between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues , known as Club Row because it features numerous nightclubs and lounges. Some of the most notable venues are Bungalow 8 , Marquee, Suzie Wong, Cain, and Pink Elephant. Since 2011, starting at 530 W. 27th and continuing down almost the entire rest of the block, the former warehouse spaces of clubs Twilo , Guesthouse, Home, Bed, and more have been repurposed by British immersive theater group Punchdrunk as The McKittrick Hotel,

2324-482: Is the M23 Select Bus Service , running through the length of 23rd Street. 24th Street is in three parts. A small portion of 24th Street exists between First Avenue and East Midtown Plaza ending at a dead end before Second Avenue, a second portion is between East Midtown Plaza and Madison Avenue , ending because of Madison Square Park . 25th Street, which is in three parts, starts at FDR Drive ,

2407-832: Is the southern terminus of Dyer Avenue and thus also of the Lincoln Tunnel 's eastern approach. There is also an elevator with access to the High Line on the West Side. Tisch Hospital is bounded on the south by 30th Street between 1st Avenue and FDR Drive. 31st Street begins on the West Side at the West Side Yard , while 32nd Street, which includes a segment officially known as Korea Way between Fifth Avenue and Broadway in Manhattan's Koreatown , begins at

2490-462: The Arc de Triomphe . Duncan also contributed townhouses on Manhattan's Upper East Side . One marvelous example is 21 East 84th Street (with its neighbors, 1132 and 1134 Madison Avenue), still intact today with much of the original interior and exterior. "A brick and terra-cotta terrace (English-style grouping of jointly designed townhouses), now sullied by unhappy storefronts on the avenue. But look up at

2573-507: The Bowery . Peretz Square, a small triangular sliver park where Houston Street, First Street and First Avenue meet marks the spot where the grid takes hold. East 2nd Street begins just north of East Houston Street at Avenue C and also continues to the Bowery. The east end of East 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 7th streets is Avenue D , with East 6th Street continuing further eastward and connecting to

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2656-519: The COVID-19 pandemic . The hotel was almost entirely staffed by formerly incarcerated people. After local news website thecity.nyc reported in 2022 that Exodus Transitional Communities had hired an unlicensed security contractor at another shelter that it operated, Exodus closed the Hotel Wolcott shelter that October. The next month, New York City mayor Eric Adams announced that he would open

2739-650: The Church of the Transfiguration to the southeast. During the mid-19th century, the stretch of Fifth Avenue between 23rd Street and 42nd Street contained brownstones and mansions for some of New York City's wealthiest residents, as well as churches. Many hotels and social clubs opened in what is now NoMad following the opening of the Fifth Avenue Hotel in the 1850s, followed by apartment hotels, apartment buildings, Broadway theaters , and stores in

2822-517: The East River . In 2009, the two-way section of 10th Street between Avenue A and the East River had bicycle markings and sharrows installed, but it still has no dedicated bike lane. West 10th Street was previously named Amos Street for Charles Christopher Amos, who is also the namesake of Charles Street and Christopher Street . The end of West 10th Street toward the Hudson River was once

2905-523: The East Village , they generally do not extend west into Greenwich Village , which already had established, named streets when the grid plan was laid out by the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 . Some streets in that area that do continue farther west change direction before reaching the Hudson River. The highest numbered street on Manhattan Island is 220th Street, but Marble Hill is also within

2988-731: The FDR Drive , but most of the street between the Drive and Avenue C was permanently closed, as was the 15th Street exit from the Drive, after the September 11 attacks , due to the presence of the Con Edison East River Generating Station there. Only Con Edison personnel have access to the closed portion. The street is then interrupted by Stuyvesant Town from Avenue C to First Avenue . It then continues to Union Square East (Park Avenue South) where it

3071-552: The FDR Drive . The west end of most of these streets is the Bowery and Third Avenue , except for 3rd Street (formerly Amity Place), which continues to Sixth Avenue ; and 4th Street, which extends west and then north to 13th Street in Greenwich Village . Great Jones Street connects East 3rd to West 3rd. East 5th Street goes west to Cooper Square, but is interrupted between Avenues B and C by The Earth School and Public School 364, and between First Avenue and Avenue A by

3154-540: The Greenwich Village street grid and continue to West Street on the Hudson River . Because West 4th Street turns northward at Sixth Avenue, it intersects 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th streets in the West Village . The M8 bus operates on 10th Street in both directions between Avenue D and Avenue A , and eastbound between West Street and Sixth Avenue. 10th Street has an eastbound bike lane from West Street to

3237-817: The High Line near Tenth Avenue ; Chelsea Market between Ninth and Tenth Avenues; the Google Building between Eighth and Ninth Avenues; the row houses at 5, 7, 9, 17, 19, 21 & 23 West 16th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues; the Bank of the Metropolis at Union Square West; and St. George's Church at Rutherford Place. 16th Street is 1.8 mi (2.9 km) long. 17th, 18th and 19th streets start at First Avenue and finish at Eleventh Avenue. On 17th Street ( 40°44′08″N 73°59′12″W  /  40.735532°N 73.986575°W  / 40.735532; -73.986575 ), traffic runs one way along

3320-607: The Hudson and Manhattan Railroad 's 33rd Street Terminal in the 1900s further spurred growth immediately around Herald Square. The presence of commercial structures and entertainment on Fifth Avenue and Broadway also affected development on side streets, where hotels and clubs were built to replace private residences. The Alvord family sold three land lots on 31st Street in February 1902 to New York Realty Corporation, which then resold them to William C. Dewey. Prior to Dewey's purchase,

3403-557: The IRT Lexington Avenue Line at the crossing with Park Avenue South . This street is home to the IAC Building , designed by Frank Gehry . 19th Street travels west for most of its length, except between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues the travel direction is reversed and traffic flows east. 20th Street starts at Avenue C, and 21st and 22nd Streets begin at First Avenue. They all end at Eleventh Avenue. Travel on

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3486-479: The Old Grapevine tavern from the 1700s to its demolition in the early 20th century. 12th Street is in two parts. Traffic on most of 12th Street runs from west to east. The first segment of West 12th Street runs southwest to northeast from West Street to Greenwich Street, then turns straight west to east. At Fifth Avenue, West 12th Street becomes East 12th Street, and ends at Avenue C. One block of 12th Street

3569-458: The grid plan is aligned with the Hudson River , rather than with the cardinal directions . Thus, the majority of the Manhattan grid's "west" is approximately 29 degrees north of true west; the angle differs above 155th Street, where the grid initially ended. The grid now covers the length of the island from 14th Street north. All numbered streets carry an East or West prefix – for example, East 10th Street or West 10th Street – which

3652-471: The 1870s. The area's wealthiest residents moved uptown in the 1880s, but the neighborhood remained fashionable for clubs, hotels, and apartment hotels . The building was designed by John Hemenway Duncan , the architect of Grant's Tomb in Upper Manhattan . It is largely designed in the French Beaux-Arts style, with large decorative elements that were characteristic of that style. The structure

3735-504: The Alvord family had owned the site for a half-century, and the lots had included a three-story house and a horse stable. Dewey indicated that he would build a 12-story hotel about 100 ft (30 m) west of Fifth Avenue, and he hired Duncan to design the hotel, which was to cost $ 500,000. The George F. Balmer Construction Company began excavating the site in June 1902, and A. L. Goldschmidt

3818-662: The FDR Drive to Eleventh Avenue. It runs on the south side of the Queens–Midtown Tunnel's Manhattan entrance/exit and over the Lincoln Tunnel's Manhattan entrance/exit. Notable locations on 36th Street are the American Copper Buildings , Sniffen Court , The Morgan Library & Museum , Gotham Hall, and the Javits Center . 37th Street runs from the FDR Drive to Eleventh Avenue. It runs on

3901-491: The Five Spot opened at the hotel in February 1993, within the hotel's ballroom. The club hosted musicians such as David Sanborn and McCoy Tyner until it closed in 1996. By the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Wolcott operated as a budget hotel ; it did not offer any room service. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Wolcott as a city landmark in 2011. The building's owners decided to renovate

3984-480: The Greenwich Village street grid before 1811. In the middle 19th century they were renamed as the western parts of West 10th, 11th and 12th Streets, respectively. 10th Street ( 40°44′03″N 74°00′11″W  /  40.7342580°N 74.0029670°W  / 40.7342580; -74.0029670 ) begins at the FDR Drive and Avenue C . West of Sixth Avenue , it turns southward about 40 degrees to join

4067-870: The Javits Center. John H. Duncan Duncan was the designer of the Wolcott Hotel . One of the most famous architects in the United States at the turn of the 20th century, his popularity rose after being selected as the architect of what is now Grant's Tomb , another "reconstruction" of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus (Greek Ionia). Another of Duncan's most famous works is the Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch in Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York, often referred to as Brooklyn's version of

4150-513: The Village View Apartments. East 6th Street contains many Indian restaurants between First and Second Avenues and is sometimes known as Curry Row . 8th and 9th streets run parallel to each other, beginning at Avenue D, interrupted by Tompkins Square Park at Avenue B , resuming at Avenue A and continuing to Sixth Avenue. West 8th Street is an important local shopping street. 8th Street between Avenue A and Third Avenue

4233-487: The Wolcott's early years, it was popular with travelers, although it also rented rooms to permanent residents. Among the Wolcott's most famous residents were dancer Isadora Duncan , tobacco magnate James Buchanan Duke , heiress Doris Duke , writers Edith Wharton and Mark Twain , and theatrical producer Henry Miller . The writer Francis Trevelyan Miller also stayed at the Wolcott, suing the hotel's managers in 1930 after he allegedly got electrocuted while trying to plug in

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4316-420: The arch, topped by a transom window. In front of the entrance doorways is a terrace that is raised slightly above the ground, with a short stone partition wall extends from the facade on either side of the terrace. A marquee with a skylight and recessed lights is cantilevered over the main entrance, above which is an oversized cartouche and an ornate keystone . To the east (left) of the main entrance, there

4399-478: The ballroom in 2014 after completing a five-year renovation of the guest rooms. At the time, the ballroom was mostly empty and used as storage space, although it sometimes held photo shoots for celebrities such as actresses Jennifer Lawrence and Amanda Seyfried . Under a contract with nonprofit organization Exodus Transitional Communities, in March 2020, the hotel became a shelter for homeless former prisoners during

4482-681: The borough of Manhattan, so the highest street number in the borough is 228th Street. The numbering system continues in the Bronx , up to 263rd Street, though east of Van Cortlandt Park the system ends at 243rd Street. The lowest numbered street in Manhattan is East 1st Street, which runs through Alphabet City near East Houston Street . There are also three streets numbered as First, Second and Third Place in Battery Park City . Download coordinates as: East 1st Street begins just north of East Houston Street at Avenue A and continues to

4565-528: The building in 1975, at which point it had declined into a single room occupancy hotel. Scott Erlich took over as the hotel's manager around 1989. The Wolcott's occupancy rate increased by about 5 percent per year for the next five years; some of the increase in occupancy came from European tourists who learned of the hotel through travel publications. The lobby was renovated in 1992, when the Tiffany glass window and other details were restored. A jazz club called

4648-451: The center of the hotel, there was also a palm room to the left of the lobby and a children's dining room to the right. The palm room was a classical-style space decorated with Caen stone ; the ceiling of the palm room had trellises. There was also a mezzanine level with several private dining rooms. By the 2000s, the hotel had a fitness room, business center, and a conference room, as well as a self-service laundry . The ground story also has

4731-406: The copper cresting was added during a later modification. From the outset, the Wolcott was intended as a fireproof building; the hotel's steel frame was built using what was known as the "Roebling system". The Wolcott also had modern mechanical systems for its time, including ice-making machines, a laundry room, a private steam plant, and a heating and ventilation system. The Wolcott originally had

4814-531: The corner of Broadway and West 31st Street is the Grand Hotel . The former Hotel Pierrepont was located at 43 West 32nd Street, The Continental NYC tower is at the corner of Sixth Avenue and 32nd Street. 29 East 32nd Street was the location of the first building owned by the Grolier Club between 1890 and 1917. 33rd Street runs uninterrupted from First Avenue to Seventh Avenue where it turns into

4897-505: The early 20th century, including William and Julius Manger of Manger Hotels during the 1920s. Over the years, it was popular with travelers, though the Wolcott also had permanent residents such as Isadora Duncan , James Buchanan Duke , Doris Duke , Edith Wharton , Mark Twain , and Henry Miller . The Wolcott had declined into a single room occupancy hotel by 1975, when the Erlich family bought it and made numerous renovations. The Wolcott

4980-575: The end of September 1904, the American Mortgage Company foreclosed on a $ 391,000 mortgage that it had placed on the hotel, and G. Thornton Warren was appointed as the Wolcott's receiver . A state judge ordered in January 1905 that the Wolcott be sold. After the Wolcott was sold, Breslin maintained his lease of the hotel until his death in early 1906, and his estate held the hotel's lease for another two years. George T. Stockham bought

5063-666: The entrance to Penn Station and Madison Square Garden . On the East Side , both streets end at Second Avenue at Kips Bay Towers and NYU Medical Center which occupy the area between 30th and 34th streets. The Catholic church of St. Francis of Assisi is situated at 135–139 West 31st Street. At 210 West is the Capuchin Monastery of St. John the Baptist, part of St. John the Baptist Church on 30th Street. At

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5146-429: The first decade of the 20th century. Half a 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, a half-block to the west during the late 19th and early 20th century. The opening of Pennsylvania Station , Macy's Herald Square , and

5229-475: The frieze". In 1899, Duncan designed a five-story limestone mansion for Philip Lehman at 7 West 54th Street , which was designated as a New York City landmark in 1981. He also designed Walhall, a "great estate" in Greenwich, Connecticut . Although the main house no longer exists, an outbuilding intended eventually for the superintendent still exists and is a private residence today. Duncan--who had been

5312-402: The ground floor. There are windows on the second floor, topped by a cornice that separates the base and midsection. The third through eighth stories have a pink-brick facade, with vertical stone piers and quoins , and are largely similar to one another. There are horizontal string courses above the third and eighth stories, as well as various brackets, cartouches, and other decorations above

5395-401: The home of Newgate Prison, New York City's first prison and the United States' second. 11th Street is in two parts. It is interrupted by the block containing Grace Church between Broadway and Fourth Avenue . East 11th Street runs from Fourth Avenue to Avenue C and runs past Webster Hall . West 11th Street runs from Broadway to West Street. 11th Street and Sixth Avenue was the location of

5478-420: The hotel as having many closets and full-height mirrors and windows. The closets in each bedroom have large hooks for women's dresses, which, at the time of the hotel's construction, tended to be heavy. By the 2000s, the rooms had been redecorated with striped wallpaper and "muted Federalist" designs. The modern-day hotel has about 160 or 165 units, most of which have sparse furnishings and small bathrooms. Although

5561-405: The hotel to Wolcott Inc., headed by Hyman Portnof, at which point the hotel was valued at $ 600,000. The new owners planned to overhaul the interior for about $ 100,000. The hotel continued to host events such as Fiorello La Guardia 's inauguration ball in 1938. The Office of Price Administration , an agency of the U.S. government, accused the Wolcott's operators of overcharging rent in 1944; the case

5644-463: The hotel's lease in May 1908 and retained most of its staff, operating the hotel for ten years. After Stockham took over the Wolcott, the hotel began offering additional amenities for dog owners. The Wolcott Realty Company acquired the hotel in 1912. William and Julius Manger of Manger Hotels bought the Wolcott in February 1923, and their subsidiary Wolcott Operating Corporation owned it for nine years. In

5727-473: The last block of the 20th, 21st, and 22nd streets, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues, is in the opposite direction than it is on the rest of the respective street. 20th Street is very wide from the Avenue C to First Avenue. Along the southern perimeter of Gramercy Park , between Gramercy Park East and Gramercy Park West, 20th Street is known as Gramercy Park South. Between Second and Third Avenues, 21st Street

5810-732: The north side of the Queens–Midtown Tunnel's Manhattan entrance/exit and over the Lincoln Tunnel's Manhattan entrance/exit. Notable locations on 37th Street are the Corinthian, the Morgan Library & Museum , Gotham Hall, and the Javits Center . 38th Street runs from FDR Drive to Eleventh Avenue. It runs on the south side of the Lincoln Tunnel's Manhattan entrance/exit. Notable Locations on 38th Street are The Corinthian , The Town House Hotel, 425 Fifth Avenue , and

5893-418: The original wooden windows have been replaced with one-over-one metal sash windows . The northern elevation of the facade is the only side with ornamentation; the western and eastern elevations have plain brick facades with a small number of windows. The base is clad with rusticated blocks of stone. There is an arch at the center of the double-height ground story, with a pair of metal-and-glass doors within

5976-420: The other side of the park at Union Square East (Park Avenue South), but is shortly stopped again by Stuyvesant Square from between Second and Third Avenues (Rutherford Place) to between First and Second Avenues (Perlman Place). At First Avenue, it is interrupted by Stuyvesant Town , and starts up again at Avenue C . It then dead ends between that avenue and the FDR Drive . Sights on 16th Street include:

6059-466: The quietness of the rooms in the rear, although the critic described the rooms as somewhat expensive and claimed to have found an empty condom wrapper on the floor. Citations Bibliography 31st Street (Manhattan) The New York City borough of Manhattan contains 214 numbered east–west streets ranging from 1st to 228th, the majority of them designated in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 . These streets do not run exactly east–west, because

6142-601: The rooms have air-conditioning and TVs, they do not have mini fridges or coffee machines; according to one critic, the rooms with queen-sized beds only had enough space for a nightstand, an armoire, and a small closet. When the Wolcott Hotel was developed at the beginning of the 20th 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

6225-499: The same paper wrote in 2000: "Walking into the giddy, ornate plaster-and-marble ornamented lobby [...] I fooled myself for an instant, thinking that I'd returned to the elegant New York of 1910." In 2014, Lana Bortolot of The Wall Street Journal wrote of the Wolcott that "Its distinctive pink-brick facade, limestone frills and copper mansard roof gave it standing among other luxury hotels of its time". Christopher Gray wrote that Duncan's design "combines his blocky, brusque stonework with

6308-553: The site of their theatrical experience Sleep No More . Heading east, 27th Street passes through Chelsea Park between Tenth and Ninth Avenues , with the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) on the corner of Eighth . On Madison Avenue between 26th and 27th streets, on the site of the old Madison Square Garden , is the New York Life Building , built in 1928 and designed by Cass Gilbert , with

6391-539: The street from the Zeckendorf Towers at Union Square East; the Google Building between Eighth and Ninth Avenues; Chelsea Market , between Ninth and Tenth Avenues; and the High Line near Tenth Avenue. 15th Street is 1.9 mi (3 km) in length. Traffic on 16th Street moves from west to east. It starts at Eleventh Avenue at the Hudson River, and runs until it is interrupted at Union Square West (Broadway) by Union Square . It picks up again on

6474-435: The street, from east to west excepting the stretch between Broadway and Park Avenue South, where traffic runs in both directions. It forms the northern borders of both Union Square (between Broadway and Park Avenue South ) and Stuyvesant Square . Composer Antonín Dvořák 's New York home was located at 327 East 17th Street, near Perlman Place. The house was razed by Beth Israel Medical Center after it received approval of

6557-464: The windows. Between the third and seventh stories, the two center bays of the Wolcott's facade have oriel windows with curved glass; at the time of the hotel's construction, such windows were expensive and thus generally rare in New York City. The remaining bays have simple sash windows with copper balconettes . At the third story, the balconettes are made of stone and contain spotlights. There

6640-527: Was delayed by several months because Dewey had to import structural steel from Europe, having encountered issues in acquiring the steel domestically. Furthermore, as a result of labor strikes, the hotel could not open in November 1903, as was originally scheduled. The Wolcott opened on March 1, 1904, with J. H. Woods as its first manager. At the time of the Wolcott's opening, guests paid $ 3 per night for guestrooms with bathrooms and $ 8 per night for guestrooms with

6723-436: Was hired that September to install the electrical equipment. James Breslin, the longtime operator of the nearby Gilsey House hotel, leased the building in March 1903, paying more than $ 2 million over 21 years. By then, the hotel had been named after businessman and politician Henry Roger Wolcott , a brother of U.S. senator Edward O. Wolcott and a descendant of U.S. founding father Oliver Wolcott . The Wolcott's construction

6806-481: Was known as a budget hotel in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, then served as a temporary shelter in the 2020s. The Wolcott is on the south side of 31st Street, between Broadway and Fifth Avenue , in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City , at the southern edge of the Koreatown neighborhood. The land lot is nearly square and measures around 9,500 square feet (880 m), with

6889-559: Was settled the next year, when the operators agreed to refund tenants' rent and pay damages. Architect Samuel A. Hertz filed plans for $ 8,000 worth of alterations in 1947. The Wolcott also hosted the Beltone Studios, a recording studio, during the 1950s and 1960s. Among the musicians who stayed at the Wolcott while recording at Beltone Studios were Buddy Holly and the Everly Brothers . The Erlich family paid $ 650,000 for

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