The Hotel New York City (New York City, New York)

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131-foot, 12-story Neo-Renaissance hotel completed in 1904. Designed by Robinson & Knust, it is clad in red brick with limestone trim above a 2-story rusticated limestone base. On the west facade facing the avenue, most of the ground floor is bricked, except for some banding and the rusticated end piers. The main entrance has sliding glass doors below a black canvas box canopy. To the left and right is a large plate-glass window with a splayed brick lintel with a keystone. At the south end is a recessed bay with glass double-doors to the restaurant space.

The upper floors have five bays of single-windows, the middle one narrower. Two flagpoles project from the 2nd floor. The end bays on the 3rd floor have stone surrounds and quoins, with scrolled brackets carrying a stone balcony with balustrade at the 4th floor's end bays. The other windows have projecting stone sills on simple brackets, topped by black wrought-iron railings, and the tops of the windows have splayed brick lintels with keystones. At the 7th floor the end bays have deeper brackets carrying stone balconies with balustrades, and Corinthian columns at the ends of the balconies extend up to dentiled cornices and another set of balconies at the 8th floor. The top two floors have stone quoins around the end bays, and there is a simple black cornice running below the 12th floor. A black iron fire escape runs down the middle bay.

The south facade on 30th Street spans eight bays, with plate-glass windows topped by sloped awnings at the western four. The fifth one has another set of brass-framed glass double-doors, and the next bay has a secondary entrance with a glass door, topped by a medallion edged in egg-and-dart molding and flanked by scrolls. The next bay at the ground floor has a small segmental-arched window, and the following bay has a segmental-arched double-window. The east end bay has a segmental-arched opening filled by two metal service doors. The upper floors have eight bays of wide single-windows, the middle two spaced closer together. The ornament on the upper floors matches that on the west facade, with the balconies and quoins at the middle and end bays.

The rear facades are pale-yellow stucco, with several bays of single-windows. Formerly a Ramada, it was re-branded in 2016 into The Hotel @ New York City.

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