Hotel Plaza Athénée
The Hotel Plaza Athénée was a 5-star hotel at 37 East 64th Street, between Park Avenue and Madison Avenue, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was a seventeen-story apartment and transient hotel building, and has been resold by Louis Schleifer (operator to the Ira Fischer Syndicate), in a transaction negotiated by Jack Stein of L. V.[1]
History
[edit]The Alrae Hotel opened in 1927 as an apartment-hotel.[2] It was designed by George F. Pelham, and was sold to Louis Schleifer in July 1950.[3] Schleifer resold the hotel in June 1951 to the Ira Fischer Syndicate.[1]
The hotel was sold to Trusthouse Forte Hotels in 1981 and was completely gutted and renovated as a luxury hotel. It reopened in September 1984 as the 160-room Hotel Plaza Athénée,[4] named for the famed Hotel Plaza Athénée in Paris, another Trusthouse Forte property at the time. It included an elegant French restaurant, La Régence, supervised by noted chef Daniel Boulud.[5] Granada plc bought Forte in 1996 and sold the hotel to Thai billionaire Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi's [6] TCC Group, for £42.5 million in 1997.[7]
The hotel closed on March 26, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[8]
It is set to reopen in 2026 as Plaza Athenee Nobu Hotel and Spa New York, a joint venture between Sirivadhanabhakdi's Asset World Corp Public Company Limited and Nobu Hospitality. It will have 145 rooms, a traditional Japanese Onsen, a spa, a wellness center, a Nobu omakase restaurant, a bar and lounge, and a rooftop reception space.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "OPERATOR RESELLS THE HOTEL ALRAE; Fischer Syndicate Buys 17Story Building on E. 64th St.--Other Operators Active". The New York Times. June 6, 1951. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
- ^ "Hotel Plaza Athénée".
- ^ "SCHLEIFER OBTAINS EAST SIDE HOTELS; Buys the Alrae and Hampton House From Realty Interests on the West Coast". The New York Times. July 5, 1950. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
- ^ Goodman, George W. (September 23, 1984). "FOR CITY'S HOTELS, IT'S SPRUCE UP TIME". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
- ^ "NEW YORK'S ELEGANT PLAZA ATHENEE STICKS CLOSE TO ITS PARIS NAMESAKE". Sun Sentinel. April 14, 1985. Archived from the original on June 28, 2021. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
- ^ "Le Royal Meridien returns to Bangkok, Thailand". hotelthailand.com. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
- ^ Stevenson, Tom (March 27, 1997). "Granada clears another hurdle in hotel sale". The Independent. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
- ^ "Hôtel Plaza Athénée New York". www.facebook.com. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
- ^ "AWC strengthens long-term partnership with Nobu Hospitality to launch two iconic Plaza Athénée Hotels in New York and Bangkok". Hospitality Net (Press release). June 15, 2023. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
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