Night Hotel Times Square (New York City, New York)

 hotel, restaurant

9-story hotel completed in 1906. Designed by Jackson & Rosencrans, it opened as the Longacre Hotel, and has had several incarnations since, including the Quality Hotel Times Square, Hampshire Hotel Suites, Stay Hotel, and most recently The Night Hotel.

It is clad in dark-grey-painted stone above a white-painted ground floor. There is a service entrance at the far west end, next to the main entrance, which includes a revolving door, traditional doors, and plate-glass window, all framed in stainless-steel. The east side of the ground floor has two doors and a window, also framed in stainless-steel, for the hotel's bistro & lounge.

The upper floors are divided into two symmetrical halves by a vertical band running up the middle, lined with quoins at the 4th-8th floors. The 2nd floor is rusticated, with three bays of segmental-arched double-windows with keystones in each half. The only difference is the cornice near the top and the middle bay at the east half, where the double-window is replaced by a single-window with an elaborate, blue-painted stone surround, wide sill, flanking Corinthian pilasters with scrollwork, and a triangular pediment. The keystones in the other bays support a band course that sets off the 3rd floor and acts as a sill course. The 3rd floor is banded and begins the arrangement of five bays of single-windows on each half of the facade, which continues on the upper floors. At the 3rd floor the windows have keystones supporting another band course acting as a sill for the 4th-floor windows.

The windows on the upper floors have splayed lintels with keystones, except for the middle bay in each half, from the 5th-7th floors. These have projecting, blue-painted stone surrounds with bracketed sills; at the 5th floor they are topped by rounded pediments carried on brackets, and at the 6th & 7th floors they have keystones. The 8th-floor windows are round-arched, with keystones, topped by a bracketed cornice on the east half only. The top floor have recessed, square-headed windows in each bay, with paneled piers. A projecting banner is mounted at the center of the facade, from the 4th-6th floors.