The Pabst Hotel occupied the north side of 42nd Street in Manhattan, New York City, between 7th Avenue and Broadway, in Longacre Square, from 1899 to 1902.

In the 1890s the Pabst Brewing Company of Milwaukee embarked upon a program of acquiring restaurants and hotels—at one time controlling nine of them in Chicago, Minneapolis, San Francisco, and New York—giving the resorts its name and serving only its own products.

[2][12] It stood on the south end of the slender triangular block formed by the intersection of 7th Avenue and Broadway, the rest of which belonged to the estate of Amos R. Eno (November 1, 1810 – February 21, 1898)[13] and was occupied by an older group of five four-story brick buildings, also Eno's, which tapered in width from south to north to fit the block.

The principal architect, Henry F. Kilburn, designed a nine-story tower with a steel frame and limestone cladding—still a new construction method at the time.

[12] An advertisement on the back wall read: "The 'Pabst' / Ladies' & Gentlemen's Restaurant / Rathskeller / Bachelor's Hotel."

g.: they claimed confusion over their legal authority;[2] they filed an unnecessary lawsuit against Regan and Thorley, claiming the city lacked the funds to carry out the removal;[20] bills were introduced in the Municipal Assembly and the State Legislature to legalize the portico, but did not become law;[21][22] and a spurious mandamus lawsuit was filed as a delaying tactic.

[20] Regan and Thorley appealed, and the Times reported that although city officials could lawfully have acted on the order at once, they chose to delay, pending the outcome.

[note 5] Though the Pabst Hotel would be able to remain, on April 15, 1902, the subway company took possession of the entire cellar room beneath the Broadway side of the building and about half of the space beneath the sidewalk on 42nd Street, for tunnel purposes—a large part of the rathskeller and storage room.

[27][29][30][31] On September 24, 1902, the Pabst Brewing Company filed suit in federal court to recover damages from Thorley.