New York, NY on South of Union Square

South of Union Square

363 West 16 Street

Maritime Hotel

[National Maritime Union of America buildings.]

The "pizza box" building in the center is now the Maritime Hotel.

IMAGE DATE1975

From

Museum of the City of New York

National Maritime Union of America buildings (Joseph Curran Plaza), ca. 1975.

This eye-catching buildings has, at various times been described as looking like a pizza box as well as a cruise ship. Designed by New Orleans architect Albert Lerner, this nautically themed building was one of three structures built for the National Maritime Union in the late 1960s.

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