TheHotel Plaza Athénée was a 5-star hotel at 37 East 64th Street, betweenPark Avenue andMadison Avenue, on theUpper East Side ofManhattan in New York City. It was a seventeen-story apartment and transient hotel building, and has been resold by Louis Schleifer (operator to the Ira Fischer Syndicate), in a transaction negotiated by Jack Stein of L. V.[1]
The Alrae Hotel opened in 1927 as an apartment-hotel.[2] It was designed by George F. Pelham, and was sold to Louis Schleifer in July 1950.[3] Schleifer resold the hotel in June 1951 to the Ira Fischer Syndicate.[1]
The hotel was sold toTrusthouse Forte Hotels in 1981 and was completely gutted and renovated as a luxury hotel. It reopened in September 1984 as the 160-roomHotel Plaza Athénée,[4] named for the famedHotel Plaza Athénée in Paris, another Trusthouse Forte property at the time. It included an elegant French restaurant,La Régence, supervised by noted chefDaniel Boulud.[5]Granada plc bought Forte in 1996 and sold the hotel to Thai billionaireCharoen Sirivadhanabhakdi's[6]TCC Group, for £42.5 million in 1997.[7]
The hotel closed on March 26, 2020, due to theCOVID-19 pandemic.[8]
It is set to reopen in 2026 asPlaza Athenee Nobu Hotel and Spa New York, a joint venture between Sirivadhanabhakdi'sAsset World Corp Public Company Limited andNobu Hospitality. It will have 145 rooms, a traditional Japanese Onsen, a spa, a wellness center, a Nobuomakase restaurant, a bar and lounge, and a rooftop reception space.[9]
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