Why you should experience Tempo New York Times Square in New York, NY.
Tempo New York Times Square is an electric lifestyle hotel where Times Square's theatrical performance, digital architecture, Broadway heritage and culture of live performance converge inside a tower engineered around one of Manhattan's most technically ambitious entertainment redevelopments.
Set at 1568 Broadway overlooking Father Duffy Square, the hotel occupies 36 floors of TSX Broadway, a 46-story tower whose hospitality component rises directly above the Palace Theatre and a six-story entertainment podium wrapped in 18,000 square feet of LED display. The development preserves portions of the previous hotel structure while introducing a permanent outdoor stage suspended above Times Square, allowing performances inside the building to open directly toward the surrounding public square. PBDW Architects developed the master plan with Perkins Eastman and executive architect Mancini Duffy around the unusually complex integration of hospitality, performance, retail and the Palace auditorium within a single vertical structure. The result is a hotel where the architecture itself participates in Times Square's culture of performance, placing guestrooms, digital media and a working Broadway theater within one interconnected building.
What you should know about Tempo New York Times Square.
Tempo New York Times Square is best known for debuting in 2023 as the first property worldwide for Hilton's Tempo lifestyle brand, introducing 661 guestrooms across a 36-floor hotel conceived by Wimberly Interiors with Mancini Duffy serving as architect of record. Wimberly Interiors designed the guestrooms, ground-level and 11th-floor lobbies, restaurant, bar, terrace and 18th-floor fitness center around an exploration concept inspired by aviation, cartography, photography and travel, translating those references into dimensional ceiling panels, terrazzo flooring with brass inlays, custom timber and mesh arrival desks and murals derived from maps. The accommodation program includes 31 Ball Drop rooms with direct sightlines toward the Times Square Ball, nine Wellness Rooms incorporating Peloton bikes, yoga mats and resistance bands, and a Presidential Suite combining a living area, dining room and kitchenette, while standard rooms organize sleeping, bathing and preparation around three defined functional zones. Wimberly Interiors subsequently earned recognition for the project as a finalist in the 20th Annual HD Awards New Brand category and an honoree in Interior Design magazine's NYCxDESIGN Awards hotel category. Hilton's global brand debut, Wimberly Interiors' travel-derived design language, specialized Ball Drop and Wellness accommodations and two major design recognitions established the hotel as a purpose-built expression of the Tempo concept rather than a conversion of an existing hospitality format.
Indiewalls extends Wimberly Interiors' exploration narrative through a commissioned art program featuring Shuster & Moseley, Kendall Buster, Eric Blum, James Worsham, Catherine MacBride and James Penfield, embedding contemporary work directly into the hotel's interiors. Kendall Buster created an architectural ceiling installation for the Sky Lobby that responds to the changing illumination of Times Square, while Shuster & Moseley engineered a glass installation incorporating more than 100 connection points and custom lighting fixtures as one of the property's signature overhead compositions. Highball Times Square carries that authored interior program into the 11th-floor restaurant and cocktail lounge, where an outdoor terrace projects the hotel's social spaces toward the surrounding screens and Broadway marquees. Together, Indiewalls, Kendall Buster, Shuster & Moseley and Highball Times Square extend the hotel's exploration theme from Wimberly Interiors' material style into commissioned art and hospitality spaces intrinsically shaped by the visual intensity outside the building.
How to fold Tempo New York Times Square into your trip.
Tempo New York Times Square works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing Broadway's theatrical memory, public gathering culture and evolution from stagecraft into contemporary entertainment.
Begin at New Victory Theater, where Oscar Hammerstein opened the Theatre Republic in 1900 with a Venetian-style façade, rooftop Paradise Roof Gardens and Sag Harbor starring Lionel Barrymore in his Broadway debut before David Belasco introduced an orchestra pit, new lighting and trap doors after assuming control two years later; following incarnations encompassing Minsky burlesque and cinema, Hugh Hardy led its restoration as New York's first theater dedicated to children and families. Continue to Museum of Broadway, where founders Julie Boardman and Diane Nicoletti created a 26,000-square-foot institution organized around a Broadway timeline, Map Room and behind-the-scenes examination of theatrical production, with artifacts including Meryl Streep's Broadway debut costume designed by Theoni V. Aldredge. Conclude at TKTS Booth, whose origins reach to Theatre Development Fund's experimental discount-ticket operation in a donated construction trailer before the contemporary Father Duffy Square structure emerged from an international design competition and opened beneath a glass staircase of red seating in 2008. The progression moves from Hammerstein and Belasco's theatrical experimentation through Boardman and Nicoletti's preservation of Broadway material culture into TDF's public ticketing institution, revealing the performance history that surrounds Tempo New York Times Square.
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