Central New York

The Mercer

Located at the intersection of Mercer and Prince in SoHo, The Mercer hotel is New York's first loft hotel and captures the very essence of the area. Lofts are a uniquely SoHo phenomenon, pioneered by artists in the 1960s who took over the neighborhood's many abandoned warehouses. Loft living is a...

The Peninsula New York

Behind a century-old Beaux Arts facade right on the poshest stretch of Fifth Avenue lies the New York franchise of the phenomenal Hong Kong-based Peninsula Hotel. And if there’s anywhere in America that’s an appropriate spot for some mega-hospitality, Far East style, it’s this particular corner o...

The Ritz-Carlton New York, Battery Park

It’s hard to believe this is Manhattan. No other hotel in New York offers a view like this one, taking in the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and all of New York Harbor. Like everything in real estate, it’s down to location; in this case, Battery Park City, at the southern tip of Manh...

The Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park

We love small, independent hotels, but you’ve got to hand it to the big chains once in a while. It takes a staggering amount of dedicated effort to build a brand up to the point where “Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park” tells you just about everything you could possibly wish to know about a hot...

The Shoreham

It’s hard to get more old-school Manhattan than the Shoreham’s midtown location. On 55th between 5th and 6th it’s close by to the park, Rockefeller Center, Times Square and the theatre district, as well as some of be best upscale shopping in the world along 5th Avenue. Until recently i...

The St. Regis New York

New York’s cutting-edge boutique hotels get a lot of well-deserved attention. But it’s worth remembering that there’s a classic side to this city as well — alongside the funky downtown boutiques, this town is also home to some century-old gems, among them John Jacob Astor’s landmark St. Regis, on...

The Standard Hotel New York

About the Standard Hotel New York: The Standard New York is a hip, boutique hotel in the trendy Meat-Packing area of New York. The latest creation from hotelier Andre Balazs, the Standard New York sits atop the High Line (the large renovation project that aims to turn old elevated railw...

Thompson LES

Over the last few decades the center of gravity of hipness in New York has tracked steadily to the south and east. And given how long these things take to make, it’s natural that only just now are we beginning to see high-end boutique hotels on the Lower East Side — among the first wave, the Thom...

Tribeca Grand Hotel

Tribeca is one of Manhattan’s oddest blends, a district mixing the arty downtown cool of Soho with the big-money sheen of midtown, the spot where 19th-century cobblestones meet sleek industrial architecture, with a dash of bright light courtesy of the sun going down over the Hudson, and several o...

W Times Square

It’s by now habitual to expect the worst of Times Square, as years of concerted effort have shaped it into a style-free zone, hammering out everything that could once have passed for local color. Step through the doors of the W Times Square, though, and you’ll likely forget you’re anywhere near t...

W Union Square

Sure, there’s a family resemblance with the other W hotels, but this one, fittingly for a hotel on Park Avenue South, feels a bit more old-money than the rest. Maybe it’s the Beaux-Arts architecture of the former Guardian Life building, or maybe it’s the spiraling grand staircase in the soaring l...

Carlton Arms Hotel