Hilton Garden Inn Times Square

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14-story modernist hotel completed in 1963. Designed by Harle & Liebman, it was formerly the Days Hotel, Loew's Motor Inn, Ramada Inn, and Days Inn Midtown. A major renovation designed by Morris Lapidus gave the building an updated facade, and it was rebranded as a Hilton Garden Inn.

The main, west facade is divided into eight bays, each with four square windows and square, grey metal spandrel panels. The bays are separated by concrete piers with two vertical ribs running up the middle of each. The rear, east facade has a central, slightly-projecting core clad in light-tan brick with beige, exposed floor plates; a large, square mechanical housing extends above the main roof line. On either side are seven bays of three windows, with the end panes in each bay divided vertically into top and bottom halves. The outer six bays are grouped into pairs by slightly wider metal mullions than the narrower ones between the pairs of bays. Continuous, light-tan brick spandrels run between the band of windows on each floor. There is a glassed-in rooftop lounge on the south side of the building.

The north and south facades are clad in light-tan brick, with beige, exposed floor plates, and no openings above the ground floor. On the west facade, the ground floor has a main entrance in the 4th bay from the north, with glass doors and a suspended metal canopy. The bay to the north is divided into four large window panes, and to the south into five narrower panes, both enclosing the rest of the lobby space. The two northern bays have wide entrance/exits for the underground parking garage; there is another garage entrance in the north facade, its only opening. The three southern bays along the avenue contain the hotel's restaurant, Pigalle Brasserie. Each bay is divided into four pairs of wood-and-glass windows, with one pair replaced by similar doors. These bays have steep-sloped, red canvas awnings, with a rounded, red canopy over the doorway and extending out over the sidewalk. The south elevation has a small bay at the west end, matching the restaurant bays from the west facade, but with only two pairs of windows. The rest of the south facade is beige brick, with a small grey-painted section at the east end and a small 1-story extension with a loading dock.

The hotel contains 369 guest rooms.