Hudson Hotel

353 West 57th Street | also 356 West 58th Street | Hell's Kitchen | built 1929

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  1. 1926

    The American Woman's Association picks a West 57th Street plot across from a planned Metropolitan Opera House

    Anne Morgan's group, by then 5,000 members strong, decides in 1926 to sell its West 23rd Street clubhouse site. It will instead build on a plot running from 57th to 58th Street, directly across from the site Otto Kahn had bought a year earlier for a new Metropolitan Opera House. The Times later describes the finished 1929 building as meant to complement that opera house.

    Source: The New York Times

  2. 1929

    Anne Morgan's American Women's Association clubhouse is completed

    Anne Morgan, daughter of J. P. Morgan, has the building put up in 1928 as a clubhouse and residence for young women in New York. Finished in 1929, it has 1,250 rooms, along with a pool, a gym, a restaurant, music rooms, and many meeting rooms.

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 1941

    The bankrupt clubhouse becomes the Henry Hudson Hotel

    The American Women's Association goes bankrupt in 1941, and its clubhouse becomes the Henry Hudson Hotel, which admits both men and women. The building houses Dutch soldiers during World War II. Later, until 1997, public television station WNET uses the second through ninth floors as its headquarters, and the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour is broadcast from the building.

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 1997

    Ian Schrager announces plans to freshen the old Henry Hudson Hotel and keep rooms near $75 a night

    In 1997 the hotelier Ian Schrager announces he will fix up the Henry Hudson Hotel, a boxy 24-story building from 1929, but not too extensively. He says he wants to charge only $75 a night. A New York Times Streetscapes column of January 1998 traces the building's path from women's clubhouse to WNET studios to budget hotel.

    Source: The New York Times

  5. 1997

    WNET's headquarters floors, home of the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, empty out

    For years the second through ninth floors of the former clubhouse house the public television station WNET, and the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour is broadcast from the building. The station stays until 1997, the year Morgans Hotel Group buys the building. WNET has since moved to Lincoln Center.

    “…until 1997 the second through ninth floors served as the headquarters for public television station WNET; the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour was broadcast from the building…”

    Source: Wikipedia

  6. 2000

    Ian Schrager and Philippe Starck remake the hotel as the Hudson

    Morgans Hotel Group buys the building in 1997 and puts $125 million into a three-year renovation, renaming it from the Henry Hudson Hotel to the Hudson. Ian Schrager and designer Philippe Starck aim for 'Cheap Chic', and the Hudson Bar gets a glowing yellow glass floor and a ceiling fresco by Francesco Clemente.

    Source: Wikipedia

  7. 2022

    May

    A $207 million deal sets up a 438-unit co-living conversion of the shuttered Hudson Hotel

    After the hotel closes at the start of the pandemic, an undisclosed buyer is reported in May 2022 to have picked up the property for $207 million from Eldridge Industries. The sale closes through Montgomery Street Partners, while CSC Coliving takes a 99-year lease to redevelop the 24-story building into 438 units. The hotel had 866 keys when it closed.

    Source: therealdeal.com

  8. 2025

    October

    The lender behind the Hudson Hotel conversion files for Chapter 11 after its developer walks away

    In October 2025 Parkview Financial, which lent $207 million for the redevelopment, files for Chapter 11 protection for the site to recapitalize the building. The developer CSC Real Estate has left the project after dodging a foreclosure in April, and Parkview had sued CSC's co-founders in July over construction mismanagement before that suit was discontinued. Parkview still plans to turn the tower into about 400 rental units.

    Source: therealdeal.com

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