The Former Hotel McAlpin – Seen from Broadway between near 36th Street, New York, New York

The Hotel McAlpin is a historic hotel building on Herald Square, at the corner of Broadway and 34th street in Manhattan, New York City. In its heyday the McAlpin employed a staff of 1500 and could accommodate up to 2,500 guests and residents.

Designed by the noted architect Frank Mills Andrews (1867–1948) the hotel was built in 1912. It was the largest hotel in the world. The top floor had a Turkish bath and there were two gender-specific floors; women checking into the hotel could reserve a room on the women’s only floor and bypass the lobby and check in directly at their own floor. One floor, dubbed the "sleepy 16th" was designed for night workers so that it was kept quiet during the day. It also hosted a travel agency

In 1920, The McAlpin hosted what may have been the first broadcast from a New York hotel. The Army Signal Corps arranged the broadcast by singer Luisa Tetrazzini from her room in the hotel. Tetrazzini (1871-1940) was an Italian lyric coloratura soprano who had an enormous popularity in America from the 1900s-1920s. Several dishes were named after her, the origin of the "Tetrazzini" dish is unknown, but several newspaper articles attribute it to a famous chef (not named) in New York City. Luisa Tetrazzini supposedly gave her recipe for "Spaghetti Tetrazzini" to Louis Paquet, Executive Chef of the McAlpin Hotel on Herald Square in New York City. Luisa Terazzini would subsequently take cooking lessons from Chef Louis Paquet of the McAlpin Hotel on how to make his Spaghetti Tetrazzini before embarking on one of her concert tours.

On April 10, 1947 Hall of Fame player Jackie Robinson received the historic phone call from the Brooklyn Dodgers that ended the colour bar in major league baseball and forever transformed America.

It currently operates as a 700-unit apartment building known as The Herald Towers.