Crowne Plaza Times Square Manhattan, Broadway

The Crowne Plaza Times Square Manhattan is a hotel at 1605 Broadway, between 48th and 49th streets, Midtown Manhattan. The hotel is owned by Vornado Realty Trust. It has 795 guest rooms and is part of the Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) and is operated by Highgate, a hotel management and development company. The hotel originally opened in 1989, as the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Manhattan.

Developer William Zeckendorf Jr. bought the site on the west side of Broadway in 1985 and then demolished the existing buildings. Construction began in 1988 and the hotel opened on December 1, 1989.

The 46-story skyscraper was designed by Alan Lapidus (1936-2021). The façade is in glass and pink granite, with a 100-foot-tall (30 m) arch facing Broadway. In addition to the hotel rooms, the Crowne Plaza contains ground-story retail space, nine stories of office space, and a 159-space parking garage. Among the tenants, the skyscraper houses the American Management Association and the Learning Tree International. The New York Sports Club was a former tenant.

Adam Tihany redesigned the interior in 1999. The City Investment Fund, a joint venture between Morgan Stanley Real Estate and Fisher Brothers, bought the Crowne Plaza in 2006 and renovated it again two years later. Vornado Realty Trust then acquired majority ownership of the hotel in 2015. The hotel closed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City and reopened in 2022.

Hotel facilities include restaurants, bar, business center, meeting rooms, swimming pool and Much more. The Crowne Plaza is near the Broadway theaters, the Rockefeller Center, shopping, restaurants and nightlife of Times Square area.