569 Lexington Avenue

569 Lexington Avenue (originally the Summit Hotel; formerly the Loews New York Hotel, Metropolitan Hotel, and DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Metropolitan New York City) is a hotel building in the East Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Designed by architect Morris Lapidus in the Miami Modern style, in association with the firm of Harle & Liebman, the building occupies the southeastern corner of Lexington Avenue and 51st Street. As of 2024, the building is owned by Hawkins Way Capital which opened Found Study, a dormitory, on the site in 2022. The hotel building is a New York City designated landmark.

The building is 20 stories tall and stretches from west to east, with an S-shaped massing bent at two places. The hotel has a facade made of marble, turquoise glazed brick, and dark-green tile. There are storefronts along both 51st Street and Lexington Avenue. Above 569 Lexington Avenue's main entrance on Lexington Avenue is a vertical sign, consisting of ovals that originally spelled out the hotel's name. The lowest stories contained the lobby, three Latin American-themed dining areas, various shops, and meeting rooms. When the Summit Hotel opened, it contained 800 guest rooms, including 200 rooms with balconies on the upper stories.

The site was previously occupied by the Loew's Lexington Theatre, which was built in the 1910s. Loew's Theatres announced plans to replace the theater in early 1960, and a groundbreaking ceremony for the hotel took place on June 21, 1960. The Summit Hotel opened on August 1, 1961, and was Manhattan's first new hotel for short-term tenants in thirty years. When the Summit opened, its facade and interior were almost universally criticized, though the building's shape had a mixed reception. Over the years, the hotel has been renovated several times. The Summit was renamed the Loews New York Hotel in 1991 and became the Metropolitan Hotel in 2000. Loews sold the hotel in 2003 to a joint venture, which rebranded it in 2005 as part of the DoubleTree chain. RLJ Lodging Trust acquired the DoubleTree Metropolitan in 2011. The hotel was closed indefinitely in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City and was sold in 2022 to Hawkins Way Capital. A dormitory, Found Study, opened at the building in late 2022; the same firm operates another building nearby at 525 Lexington Ave.