{"id":157577,"date":"2026-03-09T07:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/157577\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T07:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:52:10","slug":"midtowns-carter-hotel-to-be-sold-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/157577\/","title":{"rendered":"Midtown&#8217;s Carter Hotel to be sold at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s news that Times Square has been praying for:<\/p>\n<p>The vacant and decrepit\u00a0former Hotel Carter at 250 W. 43rd St. is to be sold in an all-cash auction in the Manhattan sheriff\u2019s office on May 6, according to a legal notice in The Post last Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.75;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38713384\" width=\"443\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/010330-hotel-carter-260-61125735.jpg\" alt=\"The Hotel Carter building and its entrance marquee from an upward angle, with a taxi driving by.\" class=\"wp-image-38713384\"  \/>The Hotel Carter has been closed for six years.  New York Post<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.75;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38713383\" width=\"443\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026-hotel-carter-260-122939761.jpg\" alt=\"The Hotel Carter building, under scaffolding and renovation, with a white &quot;Central HVAC Services&quot; van parked outside.\" class=\"wp-image-38713383\"  \/>The Carter\u2019s owners were under siege by creditors and by city agencies over more than 100 safety violations. Steve Cuozzo\/NY Post<\/p>\n<p>What matters to Times Square business and theater owners is that the 25-story eyesore, which closed six years ago,\u00a0might\u00a0end up in responsible hands. The Carter\u2019s owners, members of the Chetrit family, were under siege by creditors over unpaid loans and by city agencies that cited the building for\u00a0more than 100 safety violations.<\/p>\n<p>It left some unanswered questions, such as exactly what specifically prompted the action and why the offering originated in a Brooklyn court. (City sheriff Anthony Miranda didn\u2019t respond to an e-mail).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s hope we get an owner who can get something good built,\u201d said Times Square Alliance president Tom Harris.<\/p>\n<p>The property on one of the area\u2019s least attractive blocks was known as \u201cthe dirtiest hotel in America\u201d and was the scene of several gruesome crimes. Neighbors complained that dark, ugly scaffolding provided a haven for drug dealers after dark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s news that Times Square has been praying for: The vacant and decrepit\u00a0former Hotel Carter at 250 W.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[20023,288,810,75,84,83,9,24,63,1491,3274,2027],"class_list":["post-157577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-auctions","tag-business","tag-hotels","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-real-estate","tag-realty-check","tag-times-square"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}