Action & Expansion at the Hotel Plaza Athenee?

It looks like the Hotel Plaza Athenee on east 64th street is about to embark on yet another renovation. In addition to the dozens of newly-renovated rooms it just opened, ownership appears to want to add hotel rooms via an adjacent landmarked building at 35 east 64th street.

Recently disapproved plans filed with the Department of Buildings show that ownership petitioned to re-classify the adjacent building, which it already owns, from 'Residential' to 'Residential: Hotels, Dormitories.' The project - whatever it might be - was estimated to cost $2.5 million. And fear not, ye anti-NYU activist; we doubt they meant those types of dormitories.

The Stephens B Jacobs Group, PC, was the architect on file. SBJ specializes in hospitality development, including work at the Mansfield and the Gotham.

Does anybody have a better idea of what's going on here? Look at the filing here.

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