{"id":1033498,"date":"2026-08-30T19:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T19:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1033498\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T19:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T19:04:28","slug":"status-of-roosevelt-hotel-murkier-than-ever-as-1-4m-contract-hangs-in-the-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1033498\/","title":{"rendered":"Status of Roosevelt Hotel murkier than ever as $1.4M contract hangs in the balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody, Realty Check included, has any idea what\u2019s going on at the empty Roosevelt Hotel. Allow us to make things murkier.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40582083\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2-19-26-roosevelt-hotel-121770334.jpg\" alt=\"The Roosevelt Hotel at 45 East 45th Street in New York City.\" class=\"wp-image-40582083\"\/>The Roosevelt Hotel at 45 East 45th Street on Thursday, February 19, 2026, in New York City. Brian Zak\/NY Post<\/p>\n<p>A sidewalk bridge recently popped up around the entire property between\u00a0East 44th and 45th streets.\u00a0Its purpose? \u201cInstallation of temporary sidewalk shed,\u201d the\u00a0city\u00a0Department of Buildings none too helpfully says. \u201cRenovations,\u201d a retailer on the block said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the federal General Services Administration, which strangely <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/19\/business\/white-house-pakistan-deal-to-redevelop-nycs-roosevelt-hotel-raises-more-questions-than-answers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced an agreement<\/a> last winter to renovate or redevelop<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>the 22-story hotel\u00a0with its owner, Pakistan International Airlines, is under congressional scrutiny for signing a $1.4 million contract with law firm Sullivan &amp; Cromwell regarding the building\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>Like everyone, we await word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nobody, Realty Check included, has any idea what\u2019s going on at the empty Roosevelt Hotel. Allow us to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1033499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,64,12611,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,7747,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1033498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-business","tag-commercial-real-estate","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-realty-check","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117186021984395318","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1033499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}