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Times Square Hilton Hotel to "permantly close"
Posted on 9/10/20 at 10:23 pm
Posted on 9/10/20 at 10:23 pm
44 stories. 478 rooms. Nice job Debasio. That hotel stayed packed with tourists and business people. Somebody will get it on the cheap and open it back up but NYC is a shite show.
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Posted on 9/10/20 at 10:25 pm to SEC7070
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Somebody will get it on the cheap and open it back up but NYC is a shite show.
Relax Inn?
Knights Inn?
Scottish Inn?
Posted on 9/10/20 at 10:26 pm to gthog61
It will be like 1978 NYC all over again. Congrats, DeBlasio.
Posted on 9/10/20 at 10:26 pm to SEC7070
Sucks there are no other options around to stay at
Posted on 9/10/20 at 10:27 pm to gthog61
Airline Highway Motor Inn -- "Rentals by the hour"
Posted on 9/10/20 at 10:27 pm to Lawyered
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Sucks there are no other options around to stay at
I know, I want to go see all the boarded up shite.
Posted on 9/10/20 at 10:28 pm to SEC7070
I’ve stayed there several times. Great location. So many things to do within walking distance. It won’t be closed for long.
Posted on 9/10/20 at 10:40 pm to SEC7070
I’m not familiar with the Hilton but I absolutely hate the Times Square Marriott Marquis and it needs to be demolished, the architecture is atrocious. It was designed by John Portman who gave us the horrible architecture that defined the 70s and early 80s. Brutalism mixed with his "cinematic" sort of style where you took open elevators up and showed you one layer of ugliness to the next. I know some people like him but I don’t like his style at all and unfortunately it seemed to definite a decade.
John Portman
New York Marriott Marquis
Edit: here’s a good documentary about Portman and his life and work. If you’re into architecture it’s work a watch even if you don’t like his style. LINK
John Portman
New York Marriott Marquis
Edit: here’s a good documentary about Portman and his life and work. If you’re into architecture it’s work a watch even if you don’t like his style. LINK
This post was edited on 9/10/20 at 10:43 pm
Posted on 9/10/20 at 10:43 pm to DavidTheGnome
Awful architecture. Awful area to stay in NYC.
Posted on 9/10/20 at 10:50 pm to SEC7070
I hope Trump scoops it up on the cheap. 
Posted on 9/10/20 at 10:52 pm to SEC7070
How poetic would be if Trump bought it?
Posted on 9/10/20 at 10:56 pm to SEC7070
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Somebody will get it on the cheap and open it back up but NYC is a shite show.
It will become a public housing project. Mark this post.
Posted on 9/10/20 at 10:57 pm to Tiger Attorney
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Awful architecture. Awful area to stay in NYC.
One of the major criticisms that the Marriott Marquis faces today is how it shuts out Times Square and is so inward facing, At the time Time Square was seen as crime ridden and not the destination that it’s become so when designing the hotel he made IT the destination and tried to create a world unto itself (a lot of his buildings seem that way) and it shuts out the street. So you’re left with a building that is hostile to its surroundings and as the area was cleaned up it seems to be a relic of the past.
Add to it that it’s yet another brutalist monstrosity there’s no reason to try to preserve or keep it around other than the fact that it’s built and demolishing it would be incredibly expensive and logistically challenging. As a nation I’d be in favor of starting a fund to help cities get rid of their brutalist architecture with the stipulation that no new brutalist buidings be allowed and ideally the replacements wouldn’t be glass curtains either. Especially in DC which is plagued with brutalist garbage, I think Trump had the right idea that government buildings in particular need to have a classical style. And if the Marquis hotel in NYC was replaced I would love for it to be replaced with something Art Deco and utilized brick or stone as much as possible.
Posted on 9/10/20 at 11:04 pm to DavidTheGnome
quote:If ever there was a perfect description of a style, this was it.
brutalist architecture
Truth in marketing, for once
Posted on 9/10/20 at 11:04 pm to SEC7070
Trump organization needs to buy it!
Posted on 9/10/20 at 11:09 pm to RebelExpress38
The question us: did Hilton close it, or did the franchisee close it?
Posted on 9/10/20 at 11:58 pm to SEC7070
Seems like it has just became the most appropriate place for the Biden campaign to hold their election night party that I can think of.
Posted on 9/10/20 at 11:59 pm to SEC7070
Trump jr. should step in and buy it!
Posted on 9/11/20 at 8:38 am to HubbaBubba
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The question us: did Hilton close it, or did the franchisee close it?
It’s probably one of the corporate owned properties given its location
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