Night Hotel Broadway

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136-foot, 13-story Renaissance-revival hotel completed in 1916. Designed by Schwartz & Gross, it is clad in buff-colored brick (with white terra-cotta trim at the top floors) above a 2-story base of pale pink-painted stone with an orange granite water table along 94th Street and stone, metal, and glass storefronts along Broadway.

A light well above the ground floor separates a narrow east wing from the main wing. The ground floor below this light well once contained a restaurant, but is now storage and mechanical space, with a hodgepodge of black-painted metal and wooden doors. Along the top is a stone balustrade enclosing the light well. The east wing has two bays of wide single-windows, subdivided into triple-windows at the ground floor where they have iron grilles. The main entrance is in the main wing, with glass double-doors and a transom below a metal and plexiglass box marquee. The entry is framed in orange polished granite, which also framed a plate-glass window to the left, where it projects out slightly to enclose a narrow planter box. There is another planter box to the east, and then two double-windows on the ground floor, with iron grilles. The granite water table grows shorter here, and has a narrow band of green marble on top. To the west, the orange granite water table is taller, below a short vent and a single-window (with a small vent at the top), and the west end has a storefront with two show-windows and banded, brown-painted stone piers. The 2nd floor has four wide single-windows at the west end, followed by a tripartite window above the ground floor's plate-glass window; this tripartite window has a pink-orange stone surround with scrolls at the sides, and a leafy lintel partially overlapping the band course that caps the base. Continuing to the east there are two more single-windows, one above the main entrance, and then two more at the east end of the main wing. The window bays on the upper floors all correspond to those on the 2nd floor, except for the 3rd floor having a double-window instead of a tripartite window at that bay. The east wing has two bays of single-windows on each floor.

On the main wing the outer two bays on each side are framed by brown brick quoins, and all of the windows have bracketed sills (as do the east-wing windows). On both wings the 10th floor is set off by a string course on the bottom and dentiled cornice on top, and its windows have cream-colored terra-cotta surrounds. Double-height terra-cotta pilasters flank the windows bays on the 11th-12th floors, with stylized capitals, and terra-cotta spandrels between the two floors are adorned with heraldic shields and foliate ornament below projecting sills. Both wings are crowned by cream-colored terra-cotta roof cornices with modillions and dentils. The interior of the light well is clad in the same buff-colored brick, and has four bays of single-windows in the rear wall (one of which has smaller windows). The east-facing sidewall has a bay of single-windows at the front end, where the quoins at the end wrap around the corner, followed by a bay of small bathroom windows, and a bay of wider single-windows. The west-facing sidewall has three single-windows (narrow at the back, and wide in the middle). There is a smaller 13th-floor level at the east wing and behind the light well, with various mechanical penthouses set back along the main wing.

The ground-floor storefronts on the west facade along Broadway are silver metal and glass, and are occupied by a Duane-Reade pharmacy. The upper floors are organized into north and south halves, with three bays of double-windows in the north half, and three bays of single-windows in the south half, which is framed by brown-brick quoins from the 3rd-9th floors. The rest of the ornament and trim matches that seen on the south facade.

The hotel opened as the Apthorp, as has since operated as the Hotel Monterey, West Side Studios, Quality Hotel, Days Hotel, and now Night Hotel Broadway.