Sunshine Hotel

It received media attention in the late 1990s and early 2000s as a result of numerous radio and film documentaries about the hotel.

Both Isay's and Dominic's documentaries were narrated by the 16-year manager of the Sunshine Hotel, Nathan Smith, who died of cancer in 2002.

[3] In August 2004 Anton Bari, the owner of the Sunshine Hotel, started buying out residents and refusing new guests.

On June 30, 2008, the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development ruled that the hotel was harassing tenants to force them out.

[13] In August 2014, Roseann Carone of Harlen Sales started converting the building's two upper floors into offices.

[15] 245's lower floor lay dormant from 2019 when Cara closed, up into 2022 when the Manhattan bar chain Veloce applied to expand into this space.

Filmmaker Michael Dominic made the multi-award-winning[17] and critically acclaimed feature documentary, Sunshine Hotel.

"[21] Josh Ralke also gave the film a positive review, praising how it captures the lives of the hotel's residents.

[26] David Isay and Stacy Abramson spent a year creating an All Things Considered segment on the Sunshine Hotel which aired on September 18, 1998.

[28] Isay and Abramson then collaborated with photographer Harvey Wang to write a book about life in various Bowery flophouses, including the Sunshine Hotel.

[32] On August 19, 2016, the Philadelphia songwriters Sam Cook-Parrott and Michael Cantor released the album The Afterglows with the third track titled "Angels In The Sunshine Hotel".

This song was inspired by the story of a man who moved to New York to study philosophy, but ultimately went broke and became a Sunshine Hotel tenant.