Perkins Eastman is a New York City-based architecture firm founded in 1981 by Bradford Perkins and Mary-Jean Eastman. It specializes in hotels and apartment towers and has diversified into designing mixed-use developments in Queens. Other services the firm provides include interior design, urban design and planning, landscape architecture, graphic design, and project management. Its hotels include the Eventi Hotel at 851 Avenue of the Americas, the boutique hotel James New York at 27 Grand Street, and the renovation of the 100-room Buckingham, a Jazz Age-era hotel at 101 West 57th Street. The firm has also designed residential buildings such as the 128-unit Cielo New York at 83rd Street and York Avenue and the 142-unit rental at 34 Berry Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. -TA