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The Maritime Hotel
New York City, New York, United States · Independent · Near Luxury
Those giant portholes are not boutique-hotel theater. Albert C. Ledner designed the white-tiled building for the National Maritime Union in 1968, and every west-facing room still looks through a circular window five feet across. The 2003 conversion leaned into what was already there, fitting dark teak, rounded cabinetry, and ship-cabin details around the original openings. You sleep in a modernist seamen's building at the seam between West Chelsea and the Meatpacking District.
- 126 rooms
- Opened 2003
- Neighborhood: West Chelsea
- Architect: Albert C. Ledner
About The Maritime Hotel
- Albert C. Ledner apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright before developing the playful modernism seen in his three New York buildings for the National Maritime Union.
- After the sailors left, the building housed Covenant House for runaway teenagers and later a service center for Chinese students, artists, and businesspeople.
- Hoteliers and restaurateurs Eric Goode, Sean MacPherson, Richard Born, and Ira Drukier bought and converted the building, opening the hotel in 2003.
History
The National Maritime Union commissioned Albert C. Ledner's porthole-studded modernist building, completed in 1968. After later lives with Covenant House and a Chinese student service center, it became The Maritime Hotel in 2003.
The setting
The hotel occupies 363 West 16th Street at Ninth Avenue in West Chelsea, directly beside the Meatpacking District and across Ninth Avenue from Chelsea Market.
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