The Mark Hotel

992 Madison Avenue | also 25 East 77th Street, 994 Madison Avenue, 996 Madison Avenue | Upper East Side | built 1926

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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.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1927

    September

    The Hyde Park Hotel opens as an apartment hotel at Madison Avenue and 77th Street

    The apartment hotel at 25 East 77th Street first welcomed guests in September 1927 under the name Hyde Park Hotel. The architects Schwartz & Gross designed it in the Renaissance Revival style, at the corner of Madison Avenue. It operates today as The Mark Hotel.

    “The hotel opened for business in September 1927 as the Hyde Park Hotel, an apartment hotel.”

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 1936

    The Hyde Park Hotel sells at a Depression foreclosure auction for $550,000

    At a foreclosure auction in 1936, deep in the Great Depression, the Hyde Park Hotel went for $550,000. The apartment hotel at 25 East 77th Street, at Madison Avenue, had opened less than a decade earlier, in 1927.

    “In 1936, in the depths of the Great Depression, it was sold in a foreclosure auction for $550,000.”

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 1994

    Johnny Depp is arrested after damaging his room at The Mark while staying with Kate Moss

    Johnny Depp was arrested in New York in 1994 over damage to his room at The Mark, where he was staying with Kate Moss, his girlfriend at the time. The charges against him were dropped after he agreed to pay $9,767 in damages.

    “He was arrested in New York City in 1994 after causing damage to his room at The Mark Hotel, where he was staying with his girlfriend Kate Moss.”

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 2006

    January 17

    A developer agrees to buy The Mark's leasehold for $150 million and may convert it to co-ops

    CityRealty reported on January 17, 2006 that a venture headed by Izak Senbahar and Simon Elias had agreed to purchase Mandarin Oriental's full leasehold on the hotel for $150 million. The Mark then had 119 rooms and 57 suites. The New York Post reported that the buyers intended to convert it to cooperative apartments. Mandarin Oriental had acquired the hotel in its purchase of The Rafael Group.

    Source: cityrealty.com

  5. 2023

    May 1

    More than 60 celebrities dress at The Mark before the 2023 Met Gala

    On May 1, 2023, Anne Hathaway, Cardi B and Lizzo were among more than 60 notable guests who reserved rooms in the hotel ahead of the Met Gala, held at the museum four blocks away. Between 5:15 and 7:30 p.m. they came down through the lobby while photographers waited outside. The hotel hired many security guards, and the streets around it were closed to vehicles and pedestrians, with only registered cars, guests and teams let through.

    Source: vogue.com

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