Park Lane Hotel, Central Park South NYC

The Park Lane Hotel is a 46-story luxury hotel at 36 Central Park South in Midtown Manhattan, with panoramic views of Central Park and New York City skyline. The Park Lane opened on May 1, 1971, with 640 rooms. It was then the highest structure on the avenue.

Note: there was a 14-story Park Lane Hotel at 299 Park Avenue, erected in 1927 and demolished in 1965 to make way for the skyscraper.

The limestone and glass skyscraper hotel, at 36 Central Park South, was designed by Emery Roth & Sons for real estate developer Harry B. Helmsley. The hotel is composed of a vertical slab rising above a two-story, L-shaped base. The first floor plan was also a passageway to 58th street, included a circular drive to allow hotel guests to enter undercover, and allowed vehicles to not block traffic on the street.

The Helmsley Park Lane Hotel was constructed from 1967 to 1971. It was owned and operated by Helmsley-Spear, Inc., until it was sold to the Witkoff Group in 2013, with plans to replace the hotel with a super tall structure, but, in August 2023, the Witkoff Group sold the Park Lane Hotel to the Qatar Investment Authority.