The Hotel Claridge was a 16-story building on Times Square in Manhattan, New York City, at the southeast corner of Broadway and 44th Street.

The timing of his new venture was unfortunate, because as the hotel was being developed, a popular Broadway play was released, called The Girl from Rector's.

[8] The first and second floors are occupied by ABC's Times Square Studios, home to the Good Morning America television program.

In the film The Hustler (1961), starring Jackie Gleason and Paul Newman, the pool scenes were shot in the Hotel Claridge bar.

In the film Midnight Cowboy (1969), Joe Buck (Jon Voight) lodges in the Hotel Claridge at the beginning of his stay in New York City (but he is soon expelled due to failure to pay).