Royalton Hotel, West 44th Street, New York City

The Royalton Hotel New York is located at 44 West 44th Street, between 5th and 6th avenues, near Times Square in Midtown Manhattan. The hotel, opened in 1898.

The 13-story hotel was originally a residential apartment hotel and was constructed between 1897 and 1898. It was designed by architectural firm Rossiter & Wright and developed by civil engineer Edward G. Bailey. The building is made of brick, stone, terracotta and iron. The hotel's lobby, which connects 43rd and 44th Streets, contains a bar and restaurant.

In 1985, a group of investors bought the Royalton. The historic hotel was renovated and converted the Royalton to a boutique hotel by Philippe Starck and Gruzen Samton Steinglass Architects. The upper stories, originally with 90 apartments, were replaced with 205 guestrooms. The Royalton reopened in October 1988, operated by the Morgans Hotel Group (MHG). In 2011, FelCor Lodging Trust bought the hotel from MHG and resold it to Highgate Holding and the Rockpoint Group in 2017.

MCR Hotels bought the hotel in 2020 and it is operated by LuxUrban, since January 2024. Its 168 guestrooms were designed by Charlotte Macaux Perelman.

Title: "The Royalton." (1897). Photograph published in the A History of Real Estate, Building and Architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century. Copyright, 1898, by the Real Estate Record Association.