Hyatt Place Times Square

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25-story modernist hotel completed in 20. Designed by Gene Kaufman, it has a masonry facade, mostly red brick, but with two columns of dark grey-brown brick flanking a central bay of glass-and-metal curtain wall running from the 3rd floor to the 8th, where there is a deep setback. The main entrance is centered and slightly recessed, with glass doors covered by a glass-and-metal canopy, and there are two garage doors at the west end. The red-brick outer wings of the facade both have two bays of uneven double-windows - the inner ones are narrower and have their smaller pane to the inside, while the outer bays are larger, with a bigger wide pane and the smaller pane to the outside; they all have light-grey aluminum framing. The two brick-brick sections project slightly forward, and both have another pair of uneven double-windows (the inner ones wider) separated by beige cast-stone panels. The curtain wall section in the center projects just slightly further out, and has a wide cast-stone panel below it at the 2nd floor, with the hotel logo overlaid on it. This section extends up somewhat above the setback, rising up at an angle to the left.

The set-back upper floors have four bays of paired, uneven double-windows in the middle, and end bays with more double-windows. There are beige cast-stone panels between the end bays and the next bays in, at the top three floors. The roof line is lowered above the middle two bays, and the inner half of the next bays, capped by a stone lintel.

The west elevation is faced in red-painted stucco with no openings. The hotel contains 518 guest rooms.