Hotel New Yorker, Eighth Avenue

The New Yorker Hotel at 481 Eighth Avenue, corner of West 34th Street, Midtown Manhattan, in 1930. Photo looking west by Wurts Bros. (New York, N.Y.). Source: Collection of photographs of New York City, New York Public Library.

The Art Deco Hotel New Yorker, 43 stories high, opened in 1930. It was designed by Sugarman and Berger Architects and had a private underground tunnel to Pennsylvania Station. The interior was decorated with 26 murals by Louis Jámbor. Hilton Hotels acquired the hotel in 1953. The hotel closed in 1972 and reopened in 1994. Since 2014, it is managed by the Wyndham Hotels & Resorts.

The Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite building (Manhattan Center) at 311 West 34th Street, is on the left, adjoining the New Yorker. The Hoover Building at 505 Eighth Avenue, also completed in 1930, is on the right.