Manhattan Mercedes Benz (New York City, New York) | automobile / car dealer (sales)

USA / New Jersey / West New York / New York City, New York / Park Avenue
 automobile / car dealer (sales), historical layer / disappeared object
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1954 as the Hoffman Auto Showroom. This tiny showroom on Park Avenue can hold only five cars - but positioned around a circular and sloping ramp, and reflected in extensive mirrored surfaces, they give the showroom an atmosphere that is spacious, exciting, not at all cramped.

The positioning of the 'exhibits' around the circular, sloping ramp was a small-scale forerunner of Wright's later Guggenheim museum some thirty blocks up the street.

In 2013, the interiors were demolished to make way for a TD Bank.

www.mb-manhattan.com/
vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2013/04/hoffman-auto-show...
www.flickr.com/photos/chabanas/45351289254/in/album-721...
www.galinsky.com/buildings/hoffman/index.htm
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Coordinates:   40°45'39"N   73°58'18"W
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