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TIMES PLAZA HOTEL
510 Atlantic Ave., near 3rd Ave.,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Fireproof building — 416 rooms Separate floors for men and women
Showers, ice water and telephone on every floor
One block from L.I.R.R, all subways, theatres and shopping
Moderate rates
Hotel Room Key #244
Postcard Included * * * *
The Times Plaza Hotel, at 510 Atlantic Avenue, was designed by architect Murray Klein, in 1931. It is in the Art Deco style, and was built as an economy-priced residential hotel for men only. The Times Plaza was the first hotel of its kind in Brooklyn, and was comparable in price to the nearby YMCA. When it opened, it had a circulating library, a dining room and reception room. Along with the nearby NY Times printing plant on Third Avenue and Pacific Street, this hotel was lauded as one of the signs of progress in the economy in Brooklyn, hard hit by the Depression. The postcard shows the hotel alone on the street, with ground floor shops or restaurants. A perusal of articles in newspapers about the hotel, through the 1940’s and ‘50’s, show it to be a successful enterprise, and home to single, retired and working men of good standing. After that, the only mentions of the hotel consist of arrests and crimes that take place there, or have been perpetrated by its residents. The hotel descended into a long period of being a seedy, deteriorating, and rather dangerous SRO.
In 1995, the building was acquired by Lutheran Social Services, and was completely updated and remodeled. It is now the Muhlenberg Residence, a 201 unit dwelling for low-income, formerly homeless, and/or disabled men. It re-opened in 1999, and still functions as an SRO, but now, programs are in place there to help the residents cope with their challenges, and transition back into the larger community.
Times Plaza
Times Plaza is the historical name for the intersection of Flatbush Avenue, Fourth Avenue, and Atlantic Avenue in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The area came to be called Times Plaza for the nearby offices of the Brooklyn Daily Times. The United States Postal Service office located at 539 Atlantic Avenue is still called the Times Plaza Station.
Times Plaza is in Downtown Brooklyn and sits on the borders of the Park Slope, Fort Greene, and Boerum Hill neighborhoods. It is a short distance down Flatbush Avenue from the Grand Army Plaza.
Points of interest
The Times Plaza Control House, or headhouse was the original entrance to the Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center station of the New York City Subway (now served by the 2, 3, 4, 5, B, D, N, Q, R and W trains) when it was built in 1908 by Heins & LaFarge. Its location on the triangular island at the center of the intersection proved inconvenient as traffic increased on the three major streets that surround it, so other entrances were created.[1] It now serves as a skylight for the station.
The Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower at 1 Hanson Place is a New York City designated landmark on the north side of Times Plaza.
The Atlantic Terminal of the Long Island Rail Road
The Atlantic Terminal Mall
The site of the Pacific Park (formerly Atlantic Yards) development project
