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

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

^ ^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.

External links

Plaza Athenee Nobu Hotel and Spa New York official website

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