Row NYC Hotel

Row NYC Hotel
Row NYC Hotel
	The hotel in 2008 with the neon "M" on top, since removed
Former names	Lincoln Hotel, Manhattan Hotel, Royal Manhattan Hotel, Milford Plaza Hotel
General information
Location	700 8th Avenue; Manhattan, New York; United States
Coordinates	40°45′31″N 73°59′18″W / 40.7587°N 73.9883°W
Opening	February 1, 1928
Owner	Rockpoint Group
Management	Highgate Holdings
Technical details
Floor count	27
Design and construction
Developer	Irwin S. Chanin
Other information
Number of rooms	1,331
Number of restaurants	1
Website
	www.rownyc.com

Row NYC Hotel is a hotel at 700 Eighth Avenue, between 44th and 45th Streets, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. The hotel is 27 stories tall with 1,331 rooms. Designed by Schwartz & Gross, with Herbert J. Krapp as consulting architect, it was developed by brothers Henry and Irwin Chanin and opened on February 1, 1928, as the Hotel Lincoln. The hotel largely retains its original brick-and-terracotta facade. The interior spaces, which originally included a lobby and various restaurants on the first three stories, have been redesigned substantially over the years.

The Chanin brothers had acquired the site in May 1925 and developed it along with the neighboring John Golden, Bernard B. Jacobs, and Majestic theaters. The Chanins resold the hotel in 1927 to Irving I. Lewine and the United Cigar Stores Company, but the brothers continued to lease the hotel until 1931, when United Cigars acquired their lease. Maria Kramer bought the hotel in 1938 before reselling it in 1956 to Webb and Knapp, operated by real estate developer William Zeckendorf, which extensively renovated the hotel and renamed it the Hotel Manhattan. British firm Grand Metropolitan Inc. bought the hotel in 1969, and it operated as the Royal Manhattan until it was closed in 1974. The Milstein family purchased the hotel in 1978, and it reopened in 1980 as the Milford Plaza Hotel. Rockpoint Group and hotel operator Highgate Holdings bought the hotel in 2011 and renamed it the Row NYC in 2014. Following an influx of asylum seekers to New York City, the hotel began housing asylum seekers in 2023.