The Bowery Hotel

335 Bowery | East Village | built 2003

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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  1. 2007

    February

    Eric Goode and Sean MacPherson open the Bowery Hotel

    Conservationist Eric Goode and nightlife entrepreneur Sean MacPherson opened the 17-story Bowery Hotel, designed by Scarano & Associates Architects with 110 rooms and 25 suites. The Italian trattoria Gemma opened later that year, providing the hotel's room service.

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 2011

    The hotel's owners buy the land beneath it from the estate of Alan I. Guior

    In 2011 the Bowery Hotel's co-owners, Sean MacPherson, Eric Goode, Ira Drukier and Richard Born, bought the land beneath the hotel from the estate of Alan I. Guior. The hotel stands at 335 Bowery in the East Village.

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 2011

    The painter Domingo Zapata lives at the hotel from 2011 to 2014

    The painter Domingo Zapata says he lived at the Bowery Hotel from 2011 to 2014. He recalls that he had lived nearby on Lafayette Street and then learned that the hotel's top three floors were condominiums available for rent. His account appears in a 2021 oral history of the hotel in Fifty Grande.

    Source: fiftygrande.com

  4. 2011

    Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell hold an engagement celebration at the hotel

    Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell celebrated their engagement at the Bowery Hotel in 2011, with guests including Barbara Walters, then-mayor Michael Bloomberg, Ralph Lauren, Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon. The same year, the hotel's operating partners bought the land beneath the building from the estate of Alan I. Guior.

    Source: Wikipedia

  5. 2012

    Hurricane Sandy's blackout traps people at the hotel for a couple of days

    Domingo Zapata recalls a party at the Bowery Hotel during Hurricane Sandy that ran into the blackout, and says many of the people there could not leave and were stuck for a couple of days. He adds that the elevators began working after the first day because the hotel had a generator.

    Source: fiftygrande.com

  6. 2018

    Father John Misty's stay at the hotel inspires his 2018 album

    Musician Father John Misty spent two months living at the Bowery Hotel during a period that inspired his 2018 album. The hotel has also been referenced in songs by other musicians, part of a pattern of drawing performers and celebrities as guests since it opened.

    Source: Wikipedia

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