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Jane Hotel American Seamen's Friend Society Sailors' Home and Institute
Jane Hotel American Seamen's Friend Society Sailors' Home and Institute

The Jane is a boutique hotel located at 505–507 West Street, with its main entrance at 113 Jane Street in the West Village section of the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The building was originally the American Seamen's Friend Society Sailors' Home and Institute, a hotel for sailors built in 1906–08 and designed by William A. Boring in Georgian style. The building featured a chapel, a concert hall, and a bowling alley, and a beacon which played over the river from the polygonal observatory. The hotel was used to house the survivors of the RMS Titanic while the American inquest into the sinking was held.In 1944, the YMCA took over the building from the Seaman's Retreat Center as it was then called. Later known as The Jane West, and most-recently called the Riverview Hotel. The hotel was renovated by developers Sean MacPherson and Eric Goode in 2008 in partnership with BD Hotels, converting a facility which had become long-term housing for drug addicts and those down on their luck into an upscale hotel.During a period in the mid-1980’s, the American drag performer RuPaul lived in the tower of the hotel.The building is a New York City landmark, designated in 2000.It was reported in late 2022 that it would become a members-only establishment.

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