69 Best Hotels in New York City, New York

Conveniently located near Grand Central, this large, historic hotel (originally built as the Commodore in 1919) is now a sleek and modern central hub with a fresh-looking lobby that has low-slung leather furniture and two towering Jaume Plensa sculptures. Rooms are a minimum of 250 square feet, with pops of color on the walls, tons of electrical outlets, and an efficient settee-table setup that's ideal for an in-room drink or a few hours of work. The convenient 24-hour Market on the ground floor has coffee, snacks, hot meals, liquor, and fresh fruit. New York Central restaurant has a slick design and a market-driven, seasonal menu. A bar overlooking 42nd Street attracts a large after-work crowd for beer and sports on a row of flat-screen TVs.

This artsy luxury hotel just south of Central Park once welcomed artists like Marc Chagall and Georgia O'Keeffe, and it still has an emphasis on contemporary art. As a contemporary Hilton property, today's guest rooms are modern and spacious, done in cool gray tones with rainfall showers and in-room espresso machines. Instead of a concierge, there's an attaché desk, where experts in fashion, art, theater, and dining provide tailored advice and make reservations. While many hotels bury their fitness centers in the basement, the Quin's is on the second floor, overlooking the bustle of 57th Street through the bright two-story lobby.

With a design aesthetic and food offerings inspired by the neighborhood's multifaceted heritage, this thoroughly modern hotel from Hyatt's Joie de Vivre group takes full advantage of its downtown location. Street-art-style paintings; a year-round rooftop bar (the Crown); and a permanent exhibition curated by the nearby Museum of Chinese in America make this a standout in an area of town that tends to lack in quality accommodations.

A favorite for travelers looking for good value in a desirable Midtown location, this intimate hotel offers rooms with a French-country-living feel, including wooden headboards, rich carpeting underfoot, and—in a few cases—tubs and balconies. In the Club Room, complimentary coffee, tea, and snacks are available to guests all day; a continental breakfast is served. Four of the old-world guest rooms have terraces. Opened in 1926, the hotel served as a home to Tennessee Williams, Ava Gardner, Sidney Poitier, Joe DiMaggio, Vladimir Horowitz, and Marlon Brando over the years, and is the location of the Monkey Bar, one of Manhattan's most storied watering holes. Valet parking is through a nearby parking garage.

In the center of the dynamic Lower East Side, this hotel is a great base for restaurants, nightlife, and people-watching, and it's hard to beat the sweeping city views from the Mr. Purple restaurant and bar and terrace on the 15th floor. The neighborhood's artistic spirit is honored through the hotel's emphasis on art, which is notable, especially for a chain hotel. Rooms aren't huge—as is common in this part of Manhattan—but they are bright and cozy.

This trendy hotel truly exemplifies mid-century modern design with its decor and furniture, from its rooms to the spacious yet cozy lobby—a welcoming place for a cocktail, or to just to work on your laptop. It's also home to acclaimed eateries K'Far and Laser Wolf, which grace the ground floor and rooftop.

Once the home of James Dean (he lived here for two years in the 1950s), the Iroquois is a historic hotel dating from 1899. Today, guests enjoy stately accommodations and bits of decadence, like heated bath floors, Frette robes, and complimentary shoeshine service. It's a pleasant surprise to discover such a friendly, inviting, well-designed property in Midtown at competitive rates. Inside, don't miss Lantern's Keep, the charming cocktail bar that is easily one of Manhattan's best.

In addition to spacious guest rooms, family-friendly suites, comfortable beds, oversize bathrooms, and floor-to-ceiling windows, this hotel has the Kimpton chain's clever sense of style—refreshing in an area (just below Penn Station) that's desperately in need of new lodging options—along with a robust art program showcasing new and emerging artists. An environmentally conscious hotel, the Eventi has been awarded four green keys by the Green Key Eco-Rating Program, an ethos that extends to amenities like complimentary bikes and paraben-free bath products. 

In the heart of Herald Square (just a stone's throw from Macy's), Kixby has the convenience of location and the earnestness of an independent boutique hotel. The elegant lobby gives way to pleasantly modern rooms that feature vintage design touches, spacious showers, and comfy beds with leather headboards. Guests can dine and drink at Black Tap craft burger bar just off the lobby, and take in the incredible Empire State Building view from spacious rooftop bar The Lookup (open seasonally). For the nightly facilities fee, guests get perks like Wi-Fi, free Kixby water bottles, free local calls, in-room Keurig coffeemakers, and a fitness room with Peloton bikes.

The Knickerbocker is a soothing counterpoint to the mass of people, lights, and excitement that converge nearby at Broadway and 42nd Street. Rooms in the landmark building are contemporary, and deliver a good night's sleep, thanks to cushy beds, soundproof windows, and blackout drapes. The rooftop bar, St. Cloud, has the wow factor, with views overlooking Times Square. Charlie Palmer Steak IV, on the fourth floor, serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner; the giant billboards seem to peek playfully in through the restaurant windows and liven up the interior.

The Maritime's white-ceramic tower, the former HQ for the National Maritime Union, was the first luxury hotel to be opened in the Chelsea gallery district, and the property still feels a bit nautical, with small rooms that resemble modern ship cabins. Burnished teak paneling, sea-blue drapes and bed accents, and 5-foot "portholes" that face the Hudson River skyline all add to the vibe.

Built in 1900 and once home to Jack Kerouac, this stylish boutique property has a residential feel, including a comfortable lobby—with a coffee bar, tufted couches, and shelves lined with books—that attracts guests and locals looking for a quiet place to work. Rooms are tight on space, without extras like work desks, but are elegant, with decadent throw blankets, intricate crown molding, and big wall-mounted flat-screen TVs. Bathrooms are equally small but attractive. There's room to spread out in the lobby, bar, and Margaux, a bistro with a bright solarium in the back.

Italophiles feel like they've been transported to the good life in the Mediterranean at this deluxe hotel, where the long, wide lobby lounge is clad with multihued marble and Veronese-style oil paintings. Upstairs, rooms are spacious, averaging 475 square feet. You can choose contemporary, neoclassical, art deco, or French country styles; the different styles really just have to do with different color schemes. All have marble foyers and marble bathrooms equipped with bidets and oversize 55-gallon tubs. The hotel is a few blocks from Rockefeller Center and 5th Avenue shopping.

Spanning two towers near the United Nations, this Hilton offering starts on the 28th floor and has fabulous views—ask for a room facing west, toward Manhattan's skyline. A multilingual staff caters to a discerning clientele, including heads of state. The serene rooms are warmly lit with soft neutral tones and furnished with work desks and ergonomic chairs, Crabtree & Evelyn bath products, and Hilton's luxurious linen collection. Standout amenities include the only indoor tennis court in a New York hotel (by appointment only), a 24-hour fitness center, and a convenient coffee bar serving Italian Illy products and pastries and sandwiches. The on-site restaurant, Ambassador Grill, and lobby are both designated New York City interior landmarks.

Sophisticated and sleek, and on the edge of SoHo, the ModernHaus wows with understated luxury that never sacrifices comfort for style. The guest rooms are elegant, from the dark-wood floors to the well-chosen art, but the real focus is the view of Manhattan out the giant windows—who needs a TV (there is one) when you can just stare out at the city? Jimmy, the rooftop bar next to the seasonal plunge pool, has a nightly DJ, but bring your fashion A-game as it attracts a well-dressed crowd. The spacious 17th-floor gym has amazing views, too.

This stylish five-floor boutique hotel opened in 2021 with sleek, modern rooms designed by Vanessa Guilford that make the most of limited space. The Chelsea location is handy, as it's near some of New York's best art galleries, bars, and restaurants. Clean and simple rooms have great amenities for the price, including free Wi-Fi, Frette linens and robes, and luxury D.S. & Durga bath products. The hotel is named after early-19th-century poet Clement Clarke Moore who owned much of the land in the area. 

This sleek 42-floor property, first flicking on its lights in 2022, is a breath of fresh air on the Chelsea hotel landscape—especially if you're lucky enough to get a room on the higher floors to enjoy the stunning views. Rooms feature comfy platform beds with channel-tufted headboards and bathrooms clad in handsome blue tiles. Guest room walls are bedecked with art and photographs that reference New York City. For families, some rooms offer a king-size bed with a twin bed above it as a bunk. The on-property state-of-the-art fitness center is worth getting worked-up about. 

Moxy pays tribute to the historic trade in this part of Chelsea, the Flower District, with an on-site florist, a rooftop club 35 floors up called the Fleur Room, and bunches of flowers set in random spaces. The small, but stylish rooms have comfortable king-size beds, floor-to-ceiling windows (upper floors have killer views), and showers are tastefully, bedecked in white tile with rain shower heads. The groundfloor hosts an artisanal bakery, the second-floor bar/lounge serves snacks and cocktails, and the glass-enclosed rooftop bar has 360-degree Manhattan views. 

The hip Moxy Hotel, which uses playful design details like graffitied mirrors and concert-poster wall art to conjure the neighborhood's gritty past, has an upbeat vibe that fits in seamlessly with what is now a trendy part of the East Village. Rooms aren’t large but make excellent use of space and all have big windows that let in lots of light. There’s plenty of room to relax downstairs in the lobby lounge, which has comfy couches, a terrace that's open to the outdoors in warm-weather months, an all-day café counter, and a full bar serving innovative cocktails. 

Surrealist prints and busts of Thalia, the muse of comedy, adorn the lobby of this polished property, a good pick for guests looking for a Midtown boutique-hotel experience. Rooms are a decent size for Manhattan—averaging 270 to 350 square feet—and feel fresh and stylish. Six of the rooms have balconies, and spa suites have deep soaking tubs. All rooms come with fine bath products, big flat-screen TVs, extra-fast Wi-Fi, and other amenities included with the hotel's facilities fee. The Muse is pet-friendly, albeit with a $150 pet charge.

The relatively large, modern rooms at this full-service chain hotel are a good base for exploration of some of the borough's best neighborhoods. If you need to get to Manhattan, major subway lines are a block away.

It's undeniably cool, combining a hip, slightly gritty feel with some luxe touches, but don't expect a lot of space to spread out—guest rooms have exposed distressed-cement ceilings and walls, with minimalist modern decor; north-facing rooms have unobstructed views of the Empire State Building (ask for a room with a terrace during warm months). A curtain separates the shower from the sleeping area.

Importing much of its sensibility from Japan, the Kitano has international touches that include a bilingual concierge and a high-concept Japanese restaurant called Hakubai—it also makes for a notably service-oriented stay. What is not classically Japanese, though, are the good-size guest rooms, decked out in neutral hues or with pops of red. Head downstairs through the quiet lobby to rub Fernando Botero's rotund sculpture of a dog for good luck—it's the hotel's mascot. The property's Hillside Cafe is open only for breakfast and lunch, and the Roof at 66 Park has such views of the Chrysler Building. 

Ian Schrager's buzzy Lower East Side hotel has the same sleek modern design, state-of-the-art technology, destination dining, and hot bar scene that define every property he touches. The rooms are on the small side but the views out of the floor-to-ceiling windows, the active lobby, and in-house eatery, Peruvian-accented Popular, make up for it.

Convenient to the action without being smack in the middle of it, the bohemian-chic Redbury is a stylish hotel with three Roman-inspired dining venues by acclaimed restaurateur Danny Meyer, including the pizzeria Marta (reserve ahead) and wine bar Vini e Fritti. Guest rooms are cozy, with whimsically colorful decor.

Formerly the Tribeca Grand, the Roxy is a stylish downtown property with an emphasis on art, music, and culture that has made it a neighborhood gathering place. It's home to The Django, a jazz club, plus the Roxy Cinema, which screens mostly independent and retro films. Cozy rooms have floor-to-ceiling windows, work spaces, gourmet minibars, and high-end bath products. Java fans will love the on-site coffee bar from Jack's Stir Brew and weekend brunch affairs, perfect after a late night at the exclusive on-site club Paul's Cocktail Lounge.

The Royalton's lobby bar is one of the prime Midtown meeting spots for local A-listers, along with a new generation of movers and shakers—so be prepared to run the gauntlet of the buzzing lounge before reaching your room. Updated guest rooms, designed by Charlotte Macaux, are comfortably sleek and elegantly outfitted with atmospheric lighting, fresh flowers, and candles changed daily. Some rooms have working fireplaces; all rooms have plasma-screen TVs and iPads. Luxe bathrooms have huge circular Roman soaking tubs and rainfall showers. The restaurant Forty Four is a solid locale for a quick bite, with a menu of global small plates and fancy cocktails.

Located on a corner above the Chambers Street 1, 2, 3 subway station, this modern hotel with its comfy Galerie Bar off the lobby makes TriBeCa a welcoming landing spot for visitors. Upstairs, the guest rooms are coolly functional with a sleek color palette and plush carpeting. Upgrade to a suite, and you'll get much more than extra space: some have soaking tubs in the bathroom. Downstairs, Smyth Tavern is a posh restaurant for hearty upscale dining.

The stalwart Soho Grand has defined the neighborhood for decades, and as new properties crowd the field, the Grand's low-key sophistication continues to stand out. The Grand Bar and Lounge, on the second floor, is an oasis of low-lying velvet sofas and leather armchairs, with a fireplace and a well-stocked bar. Upstairs, comfortable, contemporary guest rooms have an industrial-chic design and are mainly focused on the view out the ample windows. A great seasonal pleasure is Gilligan's—a large outdoor space where you can have a drink or meal and then spread out on teak lounge chairs. The staff is professional, polished, and more experienced than at other fashionable hotels.