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Lucerne

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The Lucerne Hotel is distinctive for its bold color as well as its bold Beaux Arts style and uptown location.

Opened in 1904 as the Hotel Lucerne, the building was converted to a condominium (not to be confused with Lucerne Apartments on East 79th Street). It’s a hotel again – with the name reversed to Lucerne Hotel.

During a 1999/2000 restoration, the owners replaced a missing cornice (on the Amsterdam Avenue facade) and refinished the terra cotta.

Lucerne Vital Statistics
  • Location: 201 W 79th Street at Amsterdam Avenue
  • Year completed: 1904
  • Architect: Harry B. Mulliken
  • Floors: 12
  • Style: Beaux Arts
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Hotel York

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Hotel York, converted to rental apartments in 1986, is now known as The York. The Beaux Arts limestone, brick, and terra cotta facade was grievously altered on the ground floor with a pale green glass skin framing storefronts.

On the second story and above, the original terra cotta and iron decoration is in bold relief against the limestone and red brick facade.

At least 18 of Harry B. Mulliken’s hotels and apartment houses, built in 1900-1915, still survive in Manhattan – including The Lucerne.

Hotel York Vital Statistics
  • Location: 488 Seventh Avenue at W 36th Street
  • Year completed: 1903
  • Architect: Harry B. Mulliken
  • Floors: 12
  • Style: Beaux Arts
  • National Register of Historic Places: 2009 (Garment Center Historic District)
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