The New York Marriott Marquis is a Marriott hotel on Times Square, in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S. Designed by architect John C. Portman Jr., the hotel is at 1535 Broadway, between 45th and 46th Streets. It has 1,971 rooms and of meeting space.
The hotel has two wings, one on 45th Street and one on 46th Street, connected by a podium at ground level. The first two stories contain retail space, while the Marquis Theatre was built within the building's third floor. The hotel's atrium lobby is at the eighth floor and also includes meeting space and restaurants. Thirty-six stories of guestrooms rise above the lobby, overlooking it. The top three stories contain The View, one of New York City's highest restaurants and revolves for a 360° view of the city. An architectural feature of the hotel is its freestanding concrete elevator core, which has twelve glass elevator cabs on its exterior.
Real estate agent Peter Sharp acquired the site in the 1960s with plans to build an office building on the site. The hotel was first announced in 1972 and official plans were released in 1973, but the hotel was postponed after the New York City fiscal crisis in 1975. The hotel was restarted in the late 1970s under mayor Ed Koch. There was extensive controversy over the destruction of five old theaters on the site, and various lawsuits and protests delayed the start of construction until 1982. By the time construction began, Westin had been replaced with Marriott. The hotel opened on September 3, 1985, and has undergone several renovations and modifications since then. By the late 1990s, the hotel was one of the most profitable in the Marriott chain. Marriott bought out Portman's minority ownership stake in 1993 and acquired the underlying site in 2013.
Site
The New York Marriott Marquis is on the west side of Broadway, along Times Square between 45th Street (George Abbott Way) to the south and 46th Street to the north, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York, U.S. The New York City Department of City Planning gives the address as 1535 Broadway. The land lot is irregularly shaped and covers , with a frontage of on Broadway and a depth of . The Broadway frontage runs diagonally to the 45th and 46th Street frontages. The northern end of the hotel faces Duffy Square.
The sidewalk in front of Broadway was slightly widened when the hotel was built in the 1980s. As originally proposed, it would have been a pedestrian mall extending across the roadbed of Broadway eastward to Seventh Avenue. The expanded plaza measures long and extends the curb line eastward to Seventh Avenue.
The surrounding area is part of Manhattan's Theater District and contains many Broadway theaters. Morosco, Bijou, Astor, and Gaiety (later Victoria), all built in the early 20th century.
Architecture
The New York Marriott Marquis was designed by John C. Portman Jr. and is operated by Marriott International. The hotel building has 51 stories and two basements, rising to a height of . While there had been rumors that the elevators serve a 55th floor, Marriott states that the top floor number in the hotel is 49, which is used as office space.