New York Marriott Marquis
1535 Broadway | also 210 West 46th Street | Times Square | built 1985
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- 1973
John Portman and Mayor Lindsay unveil plans for a 54-story, 2,020-room Times Square hotel
On July 11, 1973, the architect John Portman and Mayor John Lindsay said the Portman Hotel would have 54 floors and 2,020 rooms, at a projected cost of $150 million. An earlier scheme for two towers had given way to a single tower around a hollow atrium. The plan drew mixed reviews, and funding troubles led Portman to cancel it in December 1975. The city revived it in 1976, and it was nicknamed 'Portman's Folly' for its delays.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1982
The Helen Hayes and Morosco theaters are demolished for the hotel despite protests by actors
After the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case, the wrecking of the Helen Hayes and Morosco theaters started on March 22, 1982. Several well-known actors and theater people were arrested in protests, and the Bijou had already come down in January. The fight over the site, which also included the Astor and Gaiety remnants, pushed the 1980s movement to preserve Broadway theaters.
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- 1983
Builders time blasting and steel erection around Times Square matinees
Heavy traffic and a dense neighborhood left almost no room to stage materials, so steel beams were brought from a plant in Kearny, New Jersey, and installed right away. Work on the east side of the site was scheduled for afternoons, when the theaters to the west gave matinees. The foundation was excavated by blasting timed around nearby performances, and the concrete elevator core climbed one foot per hour on a moving form, reaching the fourth story by January 1983.
“Work typically took place on the east side of the site during afternoons, when the theaters to the west were giving matinee productions.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 1985
The Marriott Marquis opens on September 3 with convention guests waiting and its theater and restaurant unfinished
The hotel opened on September 3, 1985, two days later than planned, after the certificate of occupancy for the eighth floor came orally the afternoon before. The Emergency Nurses Association had a convention scheduled there that day. The first phase offered meeting space, restaurants and 500 rooms, while the rooftop revolving restaurant and the theater were not yet open. Reservations of 1.2 million room-nights were already booked through 1995.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1985
Portman puts the lobby on the eighth floor beneath a 37-story atrium and a glass-cabbed elevator core
The atrium lobby sits on the eighth floor, and a planted atrium climbs 37 stories from it to the rooftop restaurant, about 400 feet. Every guest room faces the atrium. A freestanding round concrete elevator core 55 feet wide carries twelve glass-enclosed cabs on its outside, in view of the lobby. The top three levels hold The View, New York's only rooftop revolving restaurant.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1986
The 1,500-seat Marquis Theatre opens inside the hotel, and the NFL Draft begins a nine-year run here
The Marquis Theatre, on the building's third floor, opened in July 1986 and was run by the Nederlander Organization. The city's Board of Estimate required it to have 1,500 seats; in return the hotel won nearly 300,000 square feet of extra floor area. The hotel also hosted the National Football League Draft from 1986 to 1994.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2004
Guests who waited up to half an hour for elevators get a destination-dispatch overhaul
From the hotel's opening, elevator congestion was a standing problem, with waits stretching to half an hour, and elevators drew three of every four complaints. The six service elevators were fitted with a destination dispatch system between 2002 and 2004, and the 16 guest elevators were done from 2004 to 2006. The design of the elevator core ruled out simply adding more cars.
“The elevators accounted for three of four complaints about the hotel…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2025
Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group reopens The View, the hotel's revolving restaurant
Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group assumed operation of The View, the hotel's rooftop restaurant that turns as diners eat, in late 2024, and Meyer reopened it after a renovation in February 2025. It occupies the 47th through 49th stories. Its dining room makes a full turn about every 60 minutes, compared with 70 to 80 minutes originally.
Source: Wikipedia
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