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Opening Date: October 18, 2002

Address: 270 West 43rd Street (at 8th Avenue), New York, NY 10036

Location: Located in the heart of New York City in Times Square, at 43rd Street and Eighth Avenue. Steps from Broadway theatres and connected to the E-Walk entertainment/retail complex. Surrounded by New York's fashion, financial, and commercial districts. The closest first-class hotel to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Blocks away from Penn Station and Grand Central Terminal. Easily accessible to New York's airports.

Web Site: www.westinny.com

Reservations: 1-888-627-7149 or 1-800-WESTIN-1

Architecture: Designed by world-renowned Arquitectonica of Miami, the hotel's architecture features an eye-catching façade with 8,000 sheets of glass in ten colors. A beam of light rises up through its seven-story, interior atrium before breaking through the copper and blue-tinted glass façade. The illumination arches to the top of the 45-story glass prism and beyond. The entrance features an arresting welcome carpet fashioned out of lights and illuminated Westin logos.

Guestrooms: All 863 guestrooms and suites, including 124 Westin Executive Club® Rooms and Suites, and a Presidential Suite, are undergoing a $20-million refreshment program to enhance residential look of the guestrooms. All guestrooms and suites feature Westin's world famous Heavenly Bed® and Heavenly Bathsm; workstation with task lights, cordless phone, voicemail, data ports, and high-speed Internet access; dual-line phones; an intelligent refrigerated refreshment center replenishing favorite items automatically; in-room safe that can accommodate a laptop; AM/FM clock radio; deluxe grooming amenities; iron/ironing board; hair dryer; One-Cup coffee maker with complimentary Starbucks® coffee; individual climate control, and most offer incredible views of the city and the Hudson River.  Traditional, deluxe and club rooms have 32” LCD screen high-definition (HD) televisions, and all traditional and deluxe rooms also include Apple iHome H5 units, an AM/FM radio that fits all iPod models.  Club rooms also feature Apple iPod docking stations for the Bose Wave Radio, and 17” Apple iMac G5 computers.
As part of Westin Hotels & Resorts brand image of personal, instinctive, and renewal, The Westin New York at Times Square also features several lifestyle rooms.

• Spa Inspired Guestrooms: Making up the entire 23rd floor of the hotel, the Spa Inspired Guestrooms feature an electronic Shiatsu Massage chair, aromatherapy bath amenities, a mini-bar with healthy alternatives, health and fitness magazines, remote-controlled Apple iPod docking stations for the Bose Wave Radio and more. 
• Renewal Suite: Nestled atop the 44th floor with sweeping vistas of the Hudson River the 1,200-square foot Renewal Suite features chromotherapy, digital art, a spa bath, tranquil water, and light and music features throughout. 
• WestinWORKOUT® Rooms: The hotel boasts 15 WestinWORKOUT® Rooms, which feature either an indoor cycle or a Life Fitness Treadmill. The rooms also boast a custom-designed fitness shelf that holds Pilates/Yoga and Spinning DVDs, dumbbells, resistance tubing, a stability ball, yoga mat and additional workout equipment. 

WestinWORKOUT Gym®: 2,500 square feet on the 23rd floor offering panoramic views facing West and South. The WestinWORKOUT® Gym features a workout regimen for travelers, and an in-room yoga workout centered around Westin's renowned Heavenly Bed®. The WestinWORKOUT® Gym also includes Life Fitness cardiovascular equipment with cardio-theater, weight-training stations, free weights, and men's and women's locker rooms with saunas. The spa boasts three treatment rooms and offers treatments from massages to facials. Open from 5:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Guest Services: Westin Executive Club® Lounge with complimentary continental breakfast and evening hors d'oeuvres for Club Room and Club Suite guests; a wireless environment in all common areas; full concierge desk for all travel, tour, and entertainment needs; theatre-ticket desk; business center with high-speed Internet access; internal access to E Walk®, a 200,000 square-foot entertainment and retail complex featuring a 13-movie theater, restaurants, and shops; same-day dry cleaning and laundry; twice daily maid service including nightly turn-down available; valet parking; currency exchange; multi-lingual staff, and sundries shop. Westin's Service Express® allows guests to dial only one number on their in-room telephone to make all service requests. The Westin also keeps in mind the special needs of families traveling with children with the enhanced Westin Kids Club® program.  The hotel, a certified member of the Green Hotels Association, is an environmentally-friendly property using programs that saved water, save energy and reduce solid waste.

Food and Beverage: The 100-seat Shula's Steak House, the first in New York City and ranked one of the top five steakhouses in America, serves breakfast, lunch and dinner and features a bar called No Name Bar and a private dining room. The hotel also has a bar/lounge, Bar 10; 24-hour room service, and internal access to E-Walk restaurants.

Meeting Facilities: Over 34,000 square feet of flexible meeting space for small to mid-sized meetings. Featuring 32 newly renovated meeting and breakout rooms, including three ballrooms, ranging from 220 square feet to 3,500 square feet. There is also a 13-screen movie theatre with seating from 176 to 526 that is connected to the hotel, and a dramatic, seven-story interior atrium. All feature sophisticated and extensive audiovisual capabilities and full banquet and catering services. As part of Starwood Meetings, a program designed to answer the need of consistent quality delivery for meeting planners with a set of standards and practices and a StarMeeting Concierge. The Catering & Banquet Center enables guests to virtually experience their actual event while still in the planning stages.  Guests can taste sample menus and see various table and room set ups and theme replicas. 

Executives: Maryann White, General Manager - Mary Beth O'Conner, Director of Sales & Marketing

Photos: Full photo library available via www.westinnymedia.com and through Nicole Ruggiero, Quinn & Co., 212-868-1900 x248 or nruggiero@quinnandco.com.

Management Company: Westin Hotels & Resorts, a subsidiary of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:HOT) under the Westin brand.