So Retro … It’s A Landmark!
At its meeting today, the Department of City Planning unanimously voted to support the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s landmarking of the Summit Hotel (now the Doubletree Metropolitan Hotel), at 569 Lexington Avenue at 51st Street.
The aquamarine S-shaped building, which was designed by Morris Lapidus–whose other buildings include Miami Beach’s Fountainbleau and Eden Roc–was built in Read More
