page_title: Hotel Beacon
hierarchical_section_title: Hotel Beacon
context_page_description: The Hotel Beacon is a beaux-arts, 24 stories building, designed by Walter W. Ahlschlager that was built in 1928 on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at 2130 Broadway at the corner 75th Street in New York City on the site of the Tilden Club House and the Dakota Stables.
  At the time of its opening, apartments could be leased unfurnished with maid service or furnished with full hotel service. They featured one, two or three bedrooms, each with bath and kitchenette. Kitchenette were described as 'almost' kitchen size and equipped with silent electric refrigeration. The hotel featured a gymnasium, rooftop gardens on the setbacks, the Cafe of the Beacon in the lobby, located back then on the second floor mezzanine, that could seat 250 and the Restaurant Grill in the basement seating 200. Also in the basement was a barber shop and a beauty salon.
  As of 2017, the hotel features 278 transient hotel rooms but still hosts a few permanent tenants.
context_section_description: The Hotel Beacon is a beaux-arts, 24 stories building, designed by Walter W. Ahlschlager that was built in 1928 on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at 2130 Broadway at the corner 75th Street in New York City on the site of the Tilden Club House and the Dakota Stables.
  At the time of its opening, apartments could be leased unfurnished with maid service or furnished with full hotel service. They featured one, two or three bedrooms, each with bath and kitchenette. Kitchenette were described as 'almost' kitchen size and equipped with silent electric refrigeration. The hotel featured a gymnasium, rooftop gardens on the setbacks, the Cafe of the Beacon in the lobby, located back then on the second floor mezzanine, that could seat 250 and the Restaurant Grill in the basement seating 200. Also in the basement was a barber shop and a beauty salon.
  As of 2017, the hotel features 278 transient hotel rooms but still hosts a few permanent tenants.
caption: The Hotel Beacon, June 13, 2017
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