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Andaz 5th Avenue
New York City, New York, United States · Andaz · Core Luxury
At 597 Fifth Avenue, Ernest Flagg's 1913 Beaux-Arts tower began life as Charles Scribner's Sons, the publishing house whose ironwork-framed bookstore brought Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Wharton to generations of New York readers. Andaz turned the ten-story landmark into 184 rooms, preserving the eleven-foot ceilings that still give the former publishing house its unusually generous proportions.
- 184 rooms
- Opened 2010
- Neighborhood: Midtown East
- Rooms from 350 sq ft (33 m²)
- Architect: Ernest Flagg
- Interiors: Tony Chi
About Andaz 5th Avenue
- The Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the 1913 building in 1982 and its Scribner's bookstore interior in 1989.
- Scribner's ironwork windows and mezzanine gallery remained a New York reading address until the bookstore closed in 1989.
- Andaz preserved Ernest Flagg's eleven-foot ceilings across 184 rooms in the former Charles Scribner's Sons building.
History
The building at 597 Fifth Avenue between 48th and 49th Streets was constructed between 1912 and 1913 for the publishing firm Charles Scribner's Sons, and it stands today as one of the finest surviving examples of Beaux-Arts commercial architecture in Midtown Manhattan. The architect was Ernest Flagg, the French-trained practitioner who was also the brother-in-law of Charles Scribner II and had already designed the firm's earlier home at 155 Fifth Avenue in 1893. Flagg considered 597 Fifth Avenue the best work of his career ; a judgment that the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission effectively ratified when it designated the building an official landmark in 1982 and the ground-floor interior as a landmark in 1989.
The building opened on May 18, 1913, as the seventh headquarters of Charles Scribner's Sons and became one of the most distinguished bookshops in American literary history. The firm published Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, Thomas Wolfe, and a succession of other writers whose names are woven into the canon of American letters. The ground-floor bookstore, with its elaborate ironwork framing the display windows, its soaring interior space, and its mezzanine gallery, was for decades a destination address for New York readers. Scribner's owned the building until 1984, when it was sold; the bookstore closed in 1989, and the building subsequently housed retail tenants including Benetton and others, while the upper floors remained office space.
Andaz 5th Avenue opened in the building as a 184-room luxury hotel, adapting Flagg's ten-story Beaux-Arts landmark into loft-like guest rooms with eleven-foot ceilings that preserve the generous proportions the architect built into the structure. The location directly opposite the New York Public Library's main branch on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street places it at the center of one of Midtown Manhattan's most architecturally significant city blocks. The hotel's cellar bar and all-day American restaurant have given the address a social dimension appropriate to a building whose original purpose was to put books into the hands of readers. The AAA Four Diamond designation marks the current chapter of a building that has spent more than a century as one of midtown's most legible architectural statements.
The setting
Andaz 5th Avenue stands at 485 Fifth Avenue and 41st Street, directly opposite the Beaux-Arts main branch of the New York Public Library and Bryant Park five minutes on foot. Grand Central Terminal is five minutes away and Rockefeller Center eight minutes, placing the hotel at a precise midpoint between Midtown's architectural grandeur and Times Square nine minutes to the west. Fifth Avenue at 41st Street marks the transition from the commercial density of the lower 40s toward the luxury retail corridor ascending to 57th Street, a position that has made this stretch one of Manhattan's most frequented addresses for business and cultural travelers ; an ideal foundation for a hotel that prizes local immersion.
Restaurants and bars
- The Bar Downstairs and Kitchen — Restaurant · NYC-inspired seasonal dishes · Chef Nicholas Restivo (Executive Chef)
- The Bar Downstairs (cocktail bar) — Bar · Mike Lam (Head Mixologist)
Experiences
- The Bar Downstairs dining and cocktails — Subterranean speakeasy-style restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, with seasonal NYC-inspired dishes and craft cocktails.
- Complimentary Morning Coffee & Tea and Evening Wine Hour — Complimentary morning coffee and tea and an evening wine hour in the Lobby Lounge.
- Event and film and photo shoot spaces — 6,400 sq ft of event space across six spaces overlooking 5th Avenue, also used for film and photo shoots.
Amenities
- Spa
- Fitness center
- Pet-friendly
Awards
- AAA Four Diamond (2026)
- Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star (2026)
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