The 14 Best New Hotels in New York City
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Visits to New York City are jam-packed. From shows on Broadway to walks through Central Park, from exhibits at the museums (Met? MoMa? Take your pick!) to shopping Fifth Avenue, days here are booked from start to finish. Of course, it’s then that the real fun starts—Manhattan is full of the best bars and restaurants in the world.
Given the length of the to-do list, some travelers think that where they stay while in town doesn’t matter. We disagree. Just because you won’t spend the bulk of your time lounging about in your hotel robe doesn’t mean you don't need a plush option to coddle you after an afternoon spent zipping from sight to sight or a long night out on the tiles. A big bed, crisp linens, and a killer lobby bar can make a visit, after all.
New York City is a town obsessed with the new. (It’s even right there in the name: New York City.) And the past few years have seen an influx of hotels that are as much the destination as the line items on any itinerary. From the uber-luxe to the shockingly affordable, here are our fourteen favorite new hotels in New York City.
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The Fifth Avenue Hotel leans into what New Yorkers with good taste who live in small spaces know is the secret to making their apartments feel luxurious: Love every single piece of furniture, adore every square inch. Nothing is wasted. If you’re lucky, you’ll get something like the rooms and hallways of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. It’s like rich-aunt maximalism: Missoni-style upholstered chairs and couches, an armoire that’s actually a giant bar adorned with dragons and birds. The wallpaper looks as though it’s hand-painted. Lots of tapestries and tufted pink walls. Unlike in many N.Y.C. apartments, you’ll get a great night’s sleep here—the room feels pin-drop quiet, and the bathrooms are serene marble white. This is New York, but you might not leave the hotel. There’s in-room martini service, and downstairs is one of the city’s best new restaurants, the old-school-luxe Café Carmellini, as well as the Portrait Bar, home to some of the town’s best martinis (outside of your room). Rooms from $895 —Kevin Sintumuang
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If you want to understand the kind of vibe that the Moxy Williamsburg tries to channel, just take a look at the walls on the way to your compact yet functional room: monkeys with cocktails and bottles of vodka. This hotel is in Williamsburg, after all, one of the best bar neighborhoods in New York, and located right near the Williamsburg Bridge, which leads to the Lower East Side, the other N.Y.C. hood that can make for a very big night out. That said, you would do very well at the hotel itself. There are three restaurant/bars conceived by Bar Lab, the folks behind the Broken Shaker bars, as well as Mesiba, a Levantine restaurant on the ground floor. Mesiba means “party” in Hebrew; as with everything else at the Moxy, they certainly got the memo. Rooms from $200 —K.S.
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Hotels where you pay by the month can be dicier than a Vegas craps table. But Maison Hudson is the polar opposite. Located on the banks of the Hudson and at the fringe of the West Village, the property straddles a blurry line between ultra-luxurious hotel and supremely plush apartment. The minimum stay is a month, and the price starts at thirty g’s. Sounds absurdly high? Maybe. But when suites in N.Y.C. go for several thousand dollars per night, a stay at Maison Hudson can feel kind of like a good deal over time. Boy math! Okay, so say you hit it big on a stock investment/crypto/inheritance and want to live like a 0.01 percenter in New York’s coolest neighborhood. Here’s what you get: a chic, tastefully decorated, ridiculously massive thousand-square-foot living space, complete with heated bathroom floors, automatic shades, a fully stocked kitchen, and an in-unit washer/dryer. The concierge—who is really like your own personal assistant—will get you anything you could possibly desire. (Think concert tickets, a rare bottle of wine, an endangered animal to eat for dinner—kidding!) There’s an in-house spa that offers massages, facials, and antiaging treatments in a Zen-like setting. Marius, the French-inspired restaurant helmed by Michelin-star chef Sébastien Sanjou, feels intimate with only a handful of tables. While the eatery is open to the public, don’t worry: Maison Hudson guests get first priority for seatings, natch. Rooms from $32,500 per month —Daniel Dumas
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The brand’s three Manhattan locations have long been the smart traveler’s pick for affordable city lodging, and now, like so many city people, the Arlo group has made the jump into Brooklyn. On the site of the former Hotel Williamsburg, the most eye-catching of the luxury hotels to hit the hip hood in the 2010s, Arlo Williamsburg is the exact right home base for a New York City getaway. Brooklyn buzzes outside each room’s floor-to-ceiling windows, while a rooftop pool and a bar and event space inside the Arlo’s landmark water tower offer views of the full sweep of Manhattan’s skyline. It seems so close you could touch it, but with all of Billyburg’s bars, restaurants, shops, and general people-watching just steps from the front door, you may decide to skip the quick trip on the L and stay local. The company’s focus on art and interesting programming has survived the trip across the river. And out here you can stand in the middle of your room, extend both arms, and not touch a wall. Try that in Manhattan. Rooms from $400 —Dave Holmes
On one end of the travel-fantasy spectrum, there is the blissed-out, blue-skies-and-beaches vacation. The stuff postcards are made of. Nothing wrong with seeking that. Toward the other end is the kind where you imagine yourself as a neighborhood local. You tap into the rhythm of the vibrant daily life in the blocks around you and feel as if you’ve merged with a hipper, alternate-universe version of yourself. That’s what Nine Orchard will do for you.
We know the “hotels for locals” shtick, where there’s a lobby filled with folks on laptops. This is not that. Nine Orchard is more about creating the fantasy of residence. It starts with your room number. 4L, 3G, 8A. You might think you’ve stepped into someone’s apartment. Each room has an appreciation for the analog—the handmade ceramic lamps, the paintings from local artists, the wooden Ojas speakers that tune in to stations curated by DJ Stretch Armstrong and Devon Turnbull. You’ll want to hole up and write a memoir here.
Of course, the hotel’s unlikely location is what makes the neighborhood-local fantasy really work. Inhabiting the Jarmulowsky Bank building, a beaux arts landmark at the junction of the Lower East Side and Chinatown, Nine Orchard is at the heart of an area (often referred to as Dimes Square) that has become a hotbed for a certain type of fashion/media/art/skate cool kid. But you don’t need to subscribe to that ethos to take in the most breezily cool spots in N.Y.C.: wine bars like Parcelle and Le Dive, Scarr’s Pizza for quick eats, and the Chinatown BYOB classic Wu’s Wonton King. And Nine Orchard’s own Swan Room and Corner Bar, from chef and restaurateur Ignacio Mattos, are destinations in their own right, where everyone, no matter where they’re from, seems to have the look of a local celebrity who is chill about being a local celebrity. Maybe that’s the real fantasy that Nine Orchard delivers. Rooms from approx. $500 —K.S.
Lying in a cloudlike king bed, facing downtown, with One World Trade Center glimmering in the distance, I watched the sunset, thirty-four stories in the sky, and thought, What a thing to experience in a city where you thought you’d seen it all. As a gleaming, fifty-story glass tower, the Ritz-Carlton New York NoMad offers that Ritz-Carlton tranquility, but the bars and restaurants here have made it an unlikely nightlife destination in a decidedly non-touristy hood. You’ll have a sanctuary in your room with a tub—rare in N.Y.C.—but there’s also a buzzy lobby bar and the José Andrés rooftop lounge Nubeluz. It’s an uncommon New York hotel combo, where you can be serene or all-out energetic. Rooms from approx. $1,500 —K.S.
You can’t talk about the Hotel Chelsea without checking off the names of its famous tenants and guests. The building, finished in 1884, was conceived as a kind of commune for musicians and novelists and has had a bohemian artistic energy since then. Mark Twain, Stanley Kubrick, Patti Smith, Andy Warhol, and Jimi Hendrix are just some of the notable folks who have graced this Queen Anne–style building over the past century. Today it might lack a raucous clientele, but that’s all for a better night’s sleep. Expect laid-back service, marble-and-brass bathrooms, animal-print furniture. From the pitch-perfect El Quijote, a Spanish restaurant that opened in 1930, to the iconic stained-glass windows and wrought-iron balconies, checking into the Chelsea feels like entering a time warp. Rooms from approx. $300 —K.S.
Want to see something beautiful? Come stand on the corner of Wall Street and Water in Lower Manhattan and stare at this gorgeous mass of concrete. The Paspaley family, Australians who were pioneers in the pearl industry, lovingly and painstakingly brought the beaux arts facade of the Wall Street Hotel to life over the course of several years. And what’s inside is even better. Spacious suites (for Manhattan!), oversize bathrooms (see previous parenthetical), a chic-meets-fun bar that draws locals and guests, plus an absolutely killer in-house French brasserie—this place doesn’t miss. Rooms from $465 —Madison Vain
You’ll quickly lose track of how many food and beverage options there are at the iconic London brand’s NoMad location. Rooftop bar, lobby bar, library (with bar service), a trendy Italian spot, a private table in a water tower, and a formal dining room for table-side service. All have their own vibe and are worthy of inspection, but only some are available to hotel guests. The rest are reserved for Ned members. But worry not; there’s plenty of fun to be had for those who book here. Rooms from $375 —M.V.
The committed traveler, it stands to reason, always looks for authentic local color. So a stay in New York’s TriBeCa neighborhood should naturally involve a few nights in a soaring, modernist hymn to the twenty-four-hour possibilities of twenty-first-century New York. Right? Non. Hotel Barrière Fouquet’s, which opened recently on Greenwich Street, whiffs unmistakably and quite charmingly of Paris. For more than a hundred years, Fouquet’s existed as one of the grandest of all Parisian café-restaurants. In 2006, it entered the hotel business when it was reopened with more than one hundred luxury rooms added by the Barrière Group above and around the original café. The New York hotel is the first U.S. venture of the group, which maintains properties in some of the most chichi resorts in Europe. Its inherent Frenchness is both obvious and lightly done. The staff offer a singsongy “Bonjour” when you pass them in the corridor. In the rooms, the furnishings are postmodern, curvy takes on deco, and the toile-de-Jouy-style wallpaper is about as French as you can get in room decor, until you stand up close and realize it’s actually composed entirely of cartoony New York street scenes. With a relatively low room count—just ninety-seven in total, including a two-story Grand Appartement Terrasse—the hotel feels quiet and intimate. There’s just a single low-key bar, the Brasserie Fouquet’s New York, and the Par Ici Café, which doubles as the breakfast spot and where, reassuringly, the prices have been imported from Paris along with the style. Rooms from $900 —Nick Sullivan
When it comes to budget N.Y.C. hotels, you’re lucky if you get a nice room, let alone a desirable neighborhood. The Moxy Lower East Side has both; plus, it’s a mini vacation in its own right, with five gorgeous dining and drinking venues, including Sake No Hana for sushi and Silver Lining, a piano bar that will make you believe in piano bars again. Rooms from $199 —Brady Langmann
As with many Aces around the globe, the Brooklyn outpost is very much about building a cool community hangout the only way the Ace can. The purpose-built, brutalist structure of concrete and wood is home to a lobby with a buzzing bar anchoring all of the loungy furniture, where folks Zoom on laptops by day and old-fashioneds are being stirred come nightfall. Each month features different DJs spinning soul, and the Atrium on the second floor often hosts poetry readings and film screenings. The woodshop-chic rooms aren’t bad either. Rooms from $199 —Omar Mamoon
Welcome to la dolce vita, a place where Loro Piana cashmere lines the walls of your presidential suite, where custom scents fill the air, where fireplaces roar and Bellinis are handed out by waiters in white jackets. The first of several membership clubs/boutique hotels planned by Italian hospitality’s best-known ambassadors, Casa Cipriani—located on South Street in Lower Manhattan—has had glitzy New Yorkers jockeying for access ever since it opened in 2022. The pitch was a gamble (there’s a dress code, and prices are astronomical), but it turns out that a lot of luxury feels just right these days. Rooms from approx. $750 —M.V.
Beyond the modern extension of Penn Station, you’ll come across an undulating tower seemingly conjured out of nowhere in an area that was, just a few years ago, a kind of no-man’s-land. For the trek across Ninth Avenue, the Pendry epitomizes Cali-luxe: plush, earth-toned rooms where curved windows create nooks to dwell in and admire the new urban vista. Downstairs, it’s time for a mini bar crawl. Bar Pendry is a gold-leaf-adorned jewel box for a more clandestine drink, and Chez Zou is like a belle-epoque garden complete with deft cocktails and a secret cheeseburger. Rooms from $725 —K.S.
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