Waldorf Astoria New York

The Waldorf Astoria New York is a 47-story hotel at 301 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, designed by the firm Schultze and Weaver in the Art Deco style and opened in 1931. Rising 625 feet, it was the tallest hotel in the world until Moscow's Hotel Ukraina surpassed it in 1957, and it became a fixture of Cold War era diplomacy, hosting political conferences and prominent long-term residents including Herbert Hoover, Frank Sinatra and Cole Porter. The Chinese conglomerate Anbang Insurance Group bought the hotel in 2014 for 1.95 billion dollars, then the highest price ever paid for a hotel, and it is now owned by Dajia Insurance Group and operated by Hilton. The building closed in 2017 for an extensive renovation and reopened in July 2025 with 375 hotel rooms alongside 375 residential condominium units.