14-614: The New York Hilton Midtown is the largest hotel in New York City and world's 101st tallest hotel . The hotel is owned by Park Hotels & Resorts and managed by Hilton Worldwide . At 2,052 rooms total (1,878 hotel rooms and an additional 174 rooms belonging to Hilton Grand Vacations) and over 150,000 sq ft of meeting space, the hotel is the largest Hilton in the continental U.S. The 47-floor building, north of Rockefeller Center at Sixth Avenue and 53rd Street , has hosted every U.S. president since John F. Kennedy as well as
28-479: A curved Fontainebleau Hotel -style building. However, Lapidus had to withdraw since he was also designing the competing Americana of New York hotel a block away. William B. Tabler was then tapped to finish the project and he designed it with slabs. It opened June 26, 1963, as the New York Hilton and offered 2,153 rooms, making it the largest in the city . In 1990, a $ 100 million renovation decreased
42-664: Is a list of some notable hotels in New York City . Most of the hotels are represented by the Hotel Association of New York City trade organization . As of 2016, the organization had 270 members, representing 75,000 rooms and 50,000 employees. Private hotels, such as the Yale Club , are members of the group. More than half the hotels (114) are in Midtown Manhattan with 75 on the west side (most in
56-676: The Beatles . The world's first handheld cell phone call was made by hotel guest Martin Cooper in front of the hotel in 1973. Donald Trump delivered his 2016 United States presidential election victory speech at the hotel. The project was developed by Hilton Hotels Corporation , the Rockefeller Group , and the Uris Buildings Corporation . The original architect was Morris Lapidus and he proposed to build
70-646: The Times Square area) and 39 on the Midtown East Side. The city tourist list does not include single room occupancy hotels. Following is a list of the largest hotels in New York based on number of rentable rooms. Included in this lists is any hotel in the NYC area with at least 600 rooms. The total room number includes suites. Some large hotels have been carved up into mixed use buildings in which
84-848: The Adelphi. The theater was renamed the Radiant Center by The Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians in 1940. It was then the Yiddish Arts Theater (1943), and renamed the Adelphi Theater on April 20, 1944, when it was acquired by The Shubert Organization . It became a DuMont Television Network studio, known as the Adelphi Tele-Theatre in the 1950s. The "Classic 39" episodes of The Honeymooners were filmed in this facility by DuMont using their Electronicam system for broadcast on CBS later during
98-586: The New York Hilton with a two-pound Motorola DynaTAC phone. Cooper, a Motorola inventor called his rival at Bell Labs to tell him about the invention. The cell phone base station was next door atop the 1345 Avenue of the Americas . The hotel owned the property immediately west of it which was the site of the Adelphi Theatre where episodes of The Honeymooners were filmed. The Adelphi
112-539: The city name at the time. In 2007, the hotel completed its fourth renovation. It now has 47 suites on floors 42 through 44. Each suite includes between 600 and 2,000 sq ft (56 and 186 m) of space. In 2013, the hotel was renamed the New York Hilton Midtown in honor of its 50th anniversary. At that time, the management announced that it was ending room service and establishing a self-service cafeteria called "Herb n' Kitchen". Ownership of
126-506: The history of the Vietnam War which he had surreptitiously copied from Daniel Ellsberg , for publication. In June 1972, Elvis Presley stayed at the hotel while performing four sold-out concerts at nearby Madison Square Garden. He held a press conference before the first show at the hotel's Mercury Ballroom. Martin Cooper made the world's first handheld cellular phone call in public April 3, 1973, when he called Joel S. Engel at
140-600: The hotel occupies a portion of the building. This list includes only the hotel portion. Adelphi Theatre (New York) The Adelphi Theatre (1934–1940 and 1944–1958), originally named the Craig Theatre , opened on December 24, 1928. The Adelphi was located at 152 West 54th Street in Manhattan , with 1,434 seats. The theater was taken over by the Federal Theater Project in 1934 and renamed
154-483: The hotel was transferred in 2017 to Park Hotels & Resorts when that company was spun off from Hilton Worldwide. Hilton Hotels & Resorts asserts that the lyrics to John Lennon 's 1971 song "Imagine" were composed in the hotel. In late spring 1971, Neil Sheehan and colleagues at The New York Times used rooms at the hotel to organize and summarize the Pentagon Papers , an internal DoD study of
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#1732775285899168-629: The hotel's grand ballroom. The hotel is home to a number of award ceremonies, including the International Emmy Awards presented by the International Academy . Each spring, the hotel serves as the venue for the Inner Circle Show, the annual charity dinner produced by New York City journalists satirizing city, state and national politics, and current events. New York City hotels The following
182-406: The number of guest rooms to 1,980. The property underwent further renovations in 1991–1994 and a $ 100 million renovation in 1998–2000 that included a complete overhaul of the lobby, the addition of an 8,000-square-foot (740 m) Precor USA Fitness Center on the fifth floor. Around that time the name was changed to Hilton New York , as all Hilton hotels were rebranding the name Hilton to go before
196-575: Was torn down in 1970. In 1989, an office tower, 1325 Avenue of the Americas, was built on the site. The tower is connected to the Hilton with a walkway and keeps the Hilton's Sixth Avenue address even though it is midblock and closer to Seventh Avenue . Exterior shots of Elaine's workplace at the J. Peterman Company in Seinfeld show the building. In the 2016 United States presidential election , Donald J. Trump held his election night victory party in
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