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Schultze & Weaver's 1931 Art Deco tower on Park Avenue, closed in 2017 and reopened in July 2025 with 375 rooms, down from about 1,400.
- Built
- 1931Built 1929-31 to Schultze & Weaver's design (LPC); closed 2017 for conversion of upper floors to condominiums and reopened as a 375-room hotel in July 2025.
- Style
- Art Deco
- Architect
- Schultze & Weaver
- Type
- Grand hotel
- Rooms
- 375
- Area
- Midtown
- Credentials
- Local landmark
The story
The Park Avenue Waldorf-Astoria opened in 1931, successor to the original Waldorf and Astoria hotels on Fifth Avenue, combining a hotel and a separate residential tower in a 625-foot skyscraper that was among the city’s tallest. Anbang closed it in 2017 for a renovation that turned the upper floors into condominiums; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill led the restoration. It reopened in July 2025 with 375 hotel rooms, down from about 1,400. IBM introduced its first personal computer at a press conference in the Grand Ballroom on August 12, 1981.
Good to know
- Address: 301 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10022
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