Maritime Hotel

It has 121 rooms and 5 suites, all decorated in a nautical theme, in line with the building's maritime history, and the porthole-inspired facade.

The final one was the "pizza box" building which became the Maritime Hotel, whose primary facade faces Ninth Avenue.

[1][2] The Curran buildings held offices for the union and its pension fund, medical and training facilities, dormitory rooms for seaman, a gymnasium, swimming pool and 900-seat auditorium.

[5] In 2001, Sean K. MacPherson and Eric Goode, two nightclub and restaurant entrepreneurs, bought Ninth Avenue "pizza box" building for $19 million, and began converting it into a hotel with developers Richard Born and Ira Drukier.

In the 1990s, the 17th Street building had its unique sloped facades – created to meet the setback requirements of the 1961 Zoning Resolution[1][6] – covered up with fake brickface storefronts, designed to "unify" the building with the rest of the block and eliminate the "total lack of human scale" of the sloped facade;[4] the alteration appalled Ledner when he came to visit in September 2007.