The Pierre, a Taj Hotel

 hotel, landmark, skyscraper, 1930_construction, movie / film / TV location, Beaux-Arts (architecture)

2 East 61st Street
New York, NY 10065
(212) 838-8000

taj.tajhotels.com/en-in/the-pierre-new-york/

The Pierre at 2 East 61st Street is a luxury hotel located at the Lenox Hill neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City. The building stands 160 m (525 ft) tall and has 41 floors. It was designed by Schultze & Weaver and cost $15,000,000 to build from 1928 to 1930. Decorative elements on the exterior were fabricated by the New York Architectural Terra Cotta Co.

Originally having 714 rooms at its opening in 1930, several of the rooms have been combined into larger suites since then. The Pierre currently has 189 rooms, including 49 suites, and also has a business centre, a fitness centre, a spa, a restaurant, 6 banquet rooms, and 3 boardrooms.

The hotel, which faces Central Park, rises from a limestone-fronted base in a blond-brick shaft, set back from Fifth Avenue and topped with an octagonal roof. The Pierre is located within the Upper East Side Historic District.

Having been formed into a co-op in 1959, The Pierre came under the management of the Four Seasons hotel chain in 1981, and, since 2005, it is currently owned by Taj Hotels Resorts & Palaces of India. Its interior was used for S3E5 of the HBO original series "Succession" as one of the locations of the Waystar shareholder meeting.

dlc.library.columbia.edu/nyre/cul:vdncjsxn86
usmodernist.org/PA/PP-1931-03.pdf