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418-foot, 38-story modernist hotel completed in 2023. Designed by Gene Kaufman, it combines three Hilton hotel brands under one roof: Hampton Inn & Suites, Home2, and Motto, with 1,046 total guest rooms, making it one of the largest in New York. There are three separate entrances, three separate lobbies, and three sets of interior room designs and amenity spaces.

The facade is clad in brick, glass, and metal, and presents three contrasting design elements (one for each hotel) that are separated by near-matching vertical bands of a curtain wall design that has grey metal mullions and spandrels; the ones separating the three sections have four narrow window panes per floor, while a final vertical band of curtain wall cladding at the east end has three panes per floor. To the west of the first two vertical bands, the next section is slightly setback, so that the facade recedes in three stages from east to west.

The ground floor is more uniform, and clad largely glass, shrouded by a projecting, upward-angled metal canopy (with a woof finish bottom side) and side walls. There are traditional glass doors at the ends, and near the center are a pair of revolving doors topped by cylinders lined with LEDS lights that extend up into the canopy.

The upper floors of the west section have beige brick and four bays of double-windows, except for the 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th, 33rd, and 37th floors which have window bands extending to the west edge of the facade. The center section has light-grey brick and three bays of off-set double-windows (the west bay having narrow western panes and the other two bays having narrow eastern panes). The exceptions are 2-story groups at the 3rd-4th floors, 10th-11th, 17th-18th, 24th-25th, and then the 30th and 37th floors (where the facade sets back to the penthouse level), each of which has a wide window band of alternating narrow and wide panes in grey metal framing. The eastern section has dark-grey brick and five bays of off-set double-windows like those on the center section, but with lighter colored framing. Building on the pattern forming from the other two sections, this section has 3-story blocks of window bands, although they extend only across the eastern four bays, with a separate double-window bay running the full height of the facade near the west edge. These bands occur at the 7th-9th, 14th-16th, 21st-23rd, 28th-30th, and also on the 37th floor.

The east and west elevations are faced in plain, grey pre-cast concrete, with no openings.