Why you should experience DoubleTree New York Times Square South in New York, NY.
DoubleTree New York Times Square South is a high-energy hotel where Garment District's manufacturing inheritance, 8th Avenue velocity and Manhattan's vertical compression converge inside a contemporary tower positioned between the city's fashion and rail corridors.
Set along 8th Avenue near West 36th Street and just steps from Madison Square Garden, the hotel rises from a landscaped setback designed by Gene Kaufman Architect as a deliberate interruption to the avenue's dense street wall, with brick, metal panels and stucco articulating the 28-story façade. Sam Chang's McSam Hotel Group developed the 96,000-square-foot building after securing the site's ground lease in 2016, and the project topped out in 2018 with 321 rooms planned across its narrow vertical footprint. A 2,600-square-foot ground-floor retail component faces the landscaped entrance plaza, while the tower's setbacks and upper levels were configured to capitalize on long views across Midtown's comparatively low Garment District blocks. The result is a hotel where Kaufman's vertical massing, McSam's compact development model and an unusually open 8th Avenue entrance translate the Garment District's relentless density into a distinctly contemporary piece of Manhattan hospitality.
What you should know about DoubleTree New York Times Square South.
DoubleTree New York Times Square South is best known for beginning operations in January 2020 as Radisson Hotel New York Times Square before the pandemic abruptly ended that first incarnation and the 525 8th Avenue property subsequently reemerged under Hilton's DoubleTree flag. Radisson opened the newly completed hotel with 320 guestrooms, including 70 rooms oriented toward Empire State Building views, placing the property within the company's strategy of expanding in major international gateway cities immediately before New York's March 2020 shutdown. The ownership structure changed in June 2021 when Sam Chang and two fellow investors transferred a 70 percent interest in the hotel leasehold, valued at $47.4 million, after Radisson's brief tenure had been interrupted by the collapse in Manhattan travel. Hilton's present 320-room operation represents the second major brand character for a building whose opening, closure, ownership transition and relaunch were compressed into one of the most volatile periods in modern New York hospitality.
The property's uppermost hospitality program centers on Vue180 Rooftop, whose name reflects a panorama extending from Hudson Yards and the Hudson River across Midtown toward the Empire State Building. Vue180 occupies an 288-square-foot event setting capable of accommodating 80 guests, while the associated Vue525 Restaurant encompasses 4,042 square feet and supports an 80-person banquet, conference or reception configuration. Together, the two venues account for the hotel's 4,330 square feet of event space, creating a vertically separated dining program in which Vue525 operates below the skyline-facing rooftop environment. Live music, dinner service and the rooftop's broad Manhattan sightlines give the upper floors a social character directly connected to the 3,000-square-foot rooftop bar-and-lounge envisioned during the building's original architectural development.
How to fold DoubleTree New York Times Square South into your trip.
DoubleTree New York Times Square South works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing fashion scholarship, railway architecture and arena culture through the blocks that transformed this section of Midtown into a center of making, movement and performance.
Begin at Museum at FIT, founded in 1969 as the Design Laboratory of Fashion Institute of Technology before curators Richard Martin and Harold Koda expanded its ambitions during the 1980s, building an institution whose permanent holdings now exceed 50,000 garments and accessories dating from the eighteenth century to the present. Continue to Moynihan Train Hall, where Skidmore, Owings & Merrill transformed the former mail-sorting room of the McKim, Mead & White-designed Farley Building into a 255,000-square-foot rail hall opened January 1, 2021, suspending four glass catenary vaults above three original steel trusses while creating direct access to 17 tracks serving Amtrak and the Long Island Rail Road. Conclude at Madison Square Garden, where Charles Luckman Associates designed the fourth arena to carry the Madison Square Garden name, opening on February 14, 1968 above Penn Station with an original construction cost of $123 million before a $1 billion renovation between 2011 and 2013 renewed the building for basketball, hockey and concerts. The progression moves from Martin and Koda's elevation of fashion scholarship through SOM's restoration of architectural ceremony to Luckman's arena above the rail complex, revealing the intertwined cultures of clothing, transportation and mass entertainment surrounding DoubleTree New York Times Square South.
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