The Nomad Hotel

New York, United States

• Style Paris-inspired perfection
• Setting Above the Flatiron district

Set in an immaculately restored building, the Nomad Hotel has it all: a top-tier restaurant, the first American outlet of a chic French boutique and airy rooms looking up at the Empire State Building.

The James New York

New York, United States

• Style Skyscraping scenester
• Setting Southwest SoHo

With subtle linen dressing, perky plants and a boldly designed glassy building The James New York is as fashionable and upbeat as its iconic neighbourhood. Multi-level outdoor lounging, film screenings and edgy artwork distinguish it from the pack.

Hôtel Americano

New York, United States

• Style Mesh-covered mod enclave
• Setting Chelsea arts district

A high-design hotel with rooms inspired by Japan’s streamlined ryokans, Hôtel Americano’s small but stylish rooms manage to conjure mod Manhattan, with a rooftop pool that seemed to arrive in Chelsea via Ibiza.

The Surrey

New York, United States

• Style Beaux Arts beauty
• Setting Upper East Side

Refusing to be outdone by its Upper East Side setting, the Surrey is grand and gracious, with a restaurant, bar and spa to rival the city’s finest.

Soho House New York

New York, United States

• Style SoHo chic
• Setting Meatpacking District

Cool Britannia in the heart of New York's buzzing Meatpacking District – the Manhattan outpost of London's most famous media club, Soho House New York is the epitome of urban sophistication.

Gramercy Park Hotel

New York, United States

• Style A bohemian rhapsody
• Setting East Side storeys

A beguiling muddle of styles, colours and spaces, the boho Gramercy Park Hotel has a wonderful East Side location, access to the city’s only private park, and stunning rooftop gardens.

Crosby Street Hotel

New York, United States

• Style Plucky charm
• Setting Cobbled SoHo streets

Firmdale Hotels’ kitsch-but-classy English elegance at last extends beyond London. Crosby Street Hotel includes a fabulous restaurant, sophisticated sitting rooms, and even an orange-leather-seated screening room.

The Greenwich Hotel

New York, United States

• Style De Niro’s designer den
• Setting Soho-side Tribeca

Built from russet-hued hand-made bricks and embellished with reclaimed wood, Robert De Niro’s Greenwich Hotel in Tribeca merges smartly and seamlessly with its surroundings, the hippest neighbourhood in NYC.

Hotel on Rivington

New York, United States

• Style 21 floors of cool
• Setting Lower East Side

Located in the Lower East Side, the hip NY Hotel on Rivington is contemporary, lively and cool, with spacious rooms, many with a breathtaking view of that world-famous skyline.

The Bowery

New York, United States

• Style Retro glamour
• Setting Post-punk East Village

A byword for downtown hipster chic since the moment it opened, this boutique hotel on the Bowery is a slice of classic New York style with a gorgeous, quirky lobby.

Chambers

New York, United States

• Style Elegant, affluent
• Setting Midtown west

Chambers is a modernist midtown Manhattan boutique hotel that pulls a few surprises out the industrial-design bag: concrete in the bathroom, unplastered ceiling and exposed pipes... all executed with impeccable style.

60 Thompson

New York, United States

• Style Slick service, sharp style
• Setting So SoHo

The stylish bar and restaurant and the roof terrace of this contemporary 100-roomed boutique hotel in SoHo are reason alone to stay at 60 Thompson.

The Standard NY

New York, United States

• Style A fine Balazs
• Setting Hip Hudson riverside

The Standard NY hotel is a glorious glassy high-rise lording it over the Meatpacking District, with witty minimalist interiors, sexy exhibitionist bathrooms, and gob-smacking views.

Ace Hotel New York

New York, United States

• Style Rock ’n’ roll retro
• Setting Midtown flower district

Stylish, youthful and with music in its soul, downtown Manhattan’s all-new Ace Hotel New York comes with guitars in every room, a lobby barbershop, a gourmet nose-to-tail eatery, and an explosion of bohemian energy.

The Standard East Village

New York, United States

• Style Milan in Manhattan
• Setting Edge of East Village

A 21-storey tower of gleaming glass looming over the Bowery, the Standard East Village is part sophisticated city pad, part bookstore, with more than 4,000 volumes lining its lobby.

Smyth Tribeca

New York, United States

• Style Mad Men modern
• Setting Tailored triangle below Canal

Inspired by the digs of Madison Avenue's whisky-sipping, secretary-chasing advertising bad boys club, Smyth Tribeca in Manhattan, is a houndstoothsomely handsome hip downtown hotel, bar and restaurant.

Room Mate Grace Hotel

New York, United States

• Style No-frills fashion spread
• Setting Tip of Times Square

Room Mate Grace Hotel (formerly Hotel QT), is a cheap-chic boutique bolt hole, inches from Times Square in the middle of Manhattan, and just what you’d expect from that most artful of lodgers, André Balazs.

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The Mercer

New York, United States

• Style High jinks in luxury lofts
• Setting Right to the very heart of it

A six-storey red-brick Romanesque revival landmark building, New York boutique hotel the Mercer is the perfect fit for its SoHo locale. It’s a modern New York classic, with a very Manhattan air of effortless cool.