9.0
New York · €€€€
Crosby Street Hotel
Kit Kemp's colour, a cobbled SoHo street and a dog on the door
Design hotelsDogs welcomeSustainableCity centre
USA · 3 hotels
New York
The city that never sleeps, and the rooms where you can
Best months
SeasonLate spring and early autumn are the sweet spots, summers are humid and loud, and December fills every good room weeks in advance.
AirportsJohn F. Kennedy International and Newark Liberty handle most long haul arrivals, while LaGuardia serves domestic flights and sits closest to Midtown.
New York keeps two kinds of hotel in circulation. The grand houses on Fifth Avenue and Central Park South run on formality, with doormen who remember names and lobbies built for arrivals rather than laptops. Below 23rd Street a different school has taken over: converted warehouses, townhouse conversions and tightly designed towers where the bar matters more than the ballroom. Rooms are smaller than in most cities, and the view is what you are there for.
The city rewards particular advantages. Dog friendly policies are generous, extending to room service menus written for the animal. Quiet is rarer, and the houses that manage it tend to sit on side streets in the West Village, Gramercy or the Upper East Side. Late spring and early autumn bring the kindest weather; December is crowded but hard to resist. Insiders book a room with a proper desk and a window that opens, and stay in Brooklyn when Manhattan is full of trade fairs.
Hotels in New York
9.0
8.6
New York · €€€
The Beekman, A Thompson Hotel
A nine storey atrium of 1883, walled off for decades, now the heart of a downtown hotel
Grand hotelsDesign hotelsDogs welcomeCity centre
7.9
New York · €€€
AKA Sutton Place
Month-long apartments in the pre-war former Sutton Hotel, two blocks from the East River
WorkationDogs welcomeGrand hotelsCity centre
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