Everywhere you look, a hotel's growing in New York City. Or at least a rumor or plan for another hotel. (There are 8,000 rooms in the works, according to The Sun.) Not that that helps you in the short-term, as prices are still high. Here's a rundown of a number of the hotels in the works:
The just opened Bowery Hotel, still has rates from $325 to $550, but the preview prices will soon disappear to be replaced by a starting rate of $425, according to the New York Times. Also new: the small Lafayette House Hotel opened with just more than a dozen rooms at 38 E. 4th St.
Opening soon in Brooklyn will be the The Gowanus Comfort Inn, located at 279 Butler St., between Nevins and Third on "a pretty bleak industrial block," according to the Gowanus Lounge blog.

Nearby, there's also the Le Bleu Hotel at 370 Fourth Ave., which will open this summer, possibly July, according to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. The boutique hotel will have 48 rooms, "The View" restaurant on the eighth floor, a rooftop lounge, high-speed Internet, 42-inch plasma TVs, and goose-down comforters and pillows.

Hotelier Jason Pomeranc's conversion of the West Park Hotel into Six Columbus has been scheduled to "open soon" since 2005. HotelChatter has goose-down blanket coverage.

Another long-time "opening soon" project is the Duane Street Hotel in Tribeca. Nearby, Robert DeNiro's 90-room Downtown Hotel is scheduled to open this year, while work progresses on Andre Balazs' 337-room Standard at the High Line, Jason Pomeranc's Allen Street Hotel and Vikram Chatwal's conversion of the Lamb's Club theater on 44th Street into a 72-room hotel. The Paramount's transformation into the Hard Rock Hotel just off Times Square is scheduled for a fall completion.

The Empire Hotel across the street from Lincoln Center, once slated for a condo conversion, will reopen as a hotel with 440 luxury rooms. A Curbed reader recently reported seeing new mattresses being hauled in.

The hotel portion of the condo/hotel at The Mark will open in summer 2008 and the Trump Soho 42-story condo hotel has construction workers busy as well. But the city's highest profile condo/hotel project, The Plaza, is shooting to reopen in time for the hotel's centennial, on Oct. 1, 2007.

Curbed flags an abundance of new luxury hotels in the works for downtown: "including some from the McSam group, a new W Hotel at 123 Washington Street, the long planned conversion of 75 Wall street, and a 660-room Sheraton under construction at 217 Pearl Street being built by local developer the Lam Group." 75 Wall Street will open in 2008 with 250 Hyatt-managed hotel suites in the lower portion of the building, according to Hotel & Motel Management.

The Sun rounded up hotels scheduled for Midtown: "They include a Courtyard by Marriott at the corner West 54th Street and Broadway by developer Harry Gross. Extell Development is planning a 55-story condo hotel mid-block on West 45th Street near Broadway. A joint venture of Horizon Global and a real estate investment fund is planning to build a boutique hotel on West 48th Street at 11th Avenue."

Among the hotels proposed to go with the expansion of the Javits Convention center is a 90-plus story behemoth (from Extell Development) that would make it the tallest hotel in the country.

The iconic One Madison Avenue will become "a very high-end hotel, more like a private club" Ian Schrager said.

Word is the Chinatown Dialysis Center at 150 Lafayette is getting a total renovation to house the Mondrian Hotel - NYC.

The Holiday Inn at 138 Lafayette St., where you can get a room next week for $218, is up for a boutique-ization, according to the Post. And there's also something called the Cooper Square Hotel scheduled to add 21 floors to the Bowery, according to Gawker.

Work is underway at the as-yet unnamed first green hotel-condo project for New York City, according to The Real Deal. Located at 250 Bowery between Prince and Houston, it will cater to "tourists concerned with environmental responsibility as well as aesthetics."

In Queens, The Ravel Hotel in Long Island City, with rooms arouond $300 a night, will replace the "infamous QPlaza Motel near the Queensboro Bridge," the Queens Gazette reports. Also along the East River in Long Island City, the Z Hotel will break ground this spring for an 11-story, 100-room property, according to the paper. Priced around $200 a night, the hotel plans to offer free limo service to Manhattan for guests.

The Smith condo-hotel remains under construction at the corner of Atlantic and Smith at the edge of downtown Brooklyn -- and across the street from the Brooklyn House of Detention.
Another Pomeranc project, a condo-hotel for 85 West Broadway at Chambers Street called The Smyth, would open in 2008. And InterContinental has its sights on Chelsea for 2009 for its Hotel Indigo, at 127 W. 28th St.

And finally, see Preservation Online magazine for the story about the planned demolition of the Hotel Pennsylvania -- as in "Pennsylvani 6-5000."

Very interesting, kayeen! Thanks for posting! I am ready for some new hotels to visit.

Great info kayeen. Demolishing the Pennsylvania? That's a good idea.

Thanks for posting this, great information! Also here is another cheer for the demolition of the Hotel PA!

A tip; hotels like to have soft openings at deeply discounted prices to get the kinks worked out before the 'official' opening.

In other words, try to book a hotel room at these hotels a month before they open by calling the hotel and you might be in for a nice surprise.

It's too bad they couldn't just gut the Pennsylvania and still use it for a hotel.

Anyway, once the demolition starts, brace yourself for the exodus of roaches and rodents.

Are you kidding? They'd have to bomb The Pennsylvania and start over.