237 Madison Ave, once Ian Schrager’s Morgans Hotel and the world’s first boutique hotel, has been converted into high-end, micro-living units, one- and two-bedroom apartments, several floors of hotel rooms and social spaces. A gym, public living spaces with kitchen equipment, and terraces for work, gatherings, dinners, and parties support and extend the small living. The building’s attic, once its machine room, with dramatic pitched tiled roof and flanking sunny terraces has been converted into a public lounge with kitchen. The building’s light well, still filled with machines and pipes, has been converted into a shadowy terrace. An adjacent room houses a kitchenette and long table for working in the day and group dinners at night. Originally the Hotel Duane with its colorful history of gangsters and floozies, the building was designed in a loose interpretation of the Spanish Renaissance style. Today our neutral palette of black and white, remembers this past with accents of blackened steel, perforated metal, terra cotta, and glazed brick.