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450 Columbus Avenue, date unknown. Originally intended to be luxury apartments, the two buildings (connected on the Columbus Avenue front by a cornice) were completed in 1890 and 1891 as the Endicott Hotel . The hotel was quite opulent, with steam heat, electric lighting, and a glass-roofed restaurant. At the time of its opening, the Ninth Avenue El's 81st Street station ran just next to the hotel's third floor windows. A location for high society and political events, the hotel also had an unusually high rate of disasters and scandals, including assaults, murders, suicides, and plenty of mafia activity. By the middle of the 20th century the building was a cheap welfare hotel. As the city and neighborhood revitalized and gentrified in the 1980s, the once grand, then seedy hotel, was completely renovated and converted to condos.
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887 Columbus Avenue

887 Columbus Avenue. Exterior before alteration.
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887 Columbus Avenue

887 Columbus Avenue. Exterior after alteration.
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887 Columbus Avenue

Hotel Endicott, West 81 St Street, New York City, undated. (Boyette 9433)
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887 Columbus Avenue

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