One of the junior suites at TriBeCa’s new Warren Street Hotel. Photography by Simon Brown. Hotels are often agents of change in a neighbourhood. That’s certainly true in New York, where buttoned-up Wall Street and the frenetic NoMad district, north of Madison Square Park, are just two of the beneficiaries of the city’s latest hotel boom. More than 40 properties have opened across the five boroughs since 2022, during a post-Covid rebirth that’s brought fresh energy to long-overlooked pockets of Manhattan as well as to its most well-trodden quarters. Among these new arrivals are the Hotel Chelsea, a long-awaited revival of the venerable art-crowd hangout, and Nine Orchard, an elegant makeover of a 1912 bank building on the Lower East Side. Then there’s the Aman, the hushed retreat that opened two summers ago in the middle of Midtown. At least two more luxury hotels are planning to welcome guests next month: the Surrey, an Upper East Side landmark entirely remade by the Malta-based Corinthia Hotels group, and the Manner, an upscale sibling of the Standard hotels, in SoHo. Here, a closer look at five other attention-worthy newcomers:
The Fifth Avenue Hotel
Not too long ago, Manhattan’s NoMad neighbourhood was an unglamorous commercial hub, home to a slew of wholesale jewellery and luggage businesses. Now it’s brimming with lively cafes and bars and a cluster of stylish lodgings. Just down the block from both the Ritz-Carlton New York, NoMad, housed in a 50-story high-rise, and the Ned NoMad (see below), the Fifth Avenue Hotel opened last fall in two adjoining buildings: a 19th-century mansion turned bank, and a new glass tower that holds the majority of the property’s 153 guest rooms. The designer Martin Brudnizki gave the interiors his signature maximalist treatment, mixing textures and jewel-toned patterns to create an atmosphere that’s both bohemian and romantic, akin to a cross between Victorian London and Belle Epoque Paris. Cafe Carmellini, the restaurant overseen by the chef Andrew Carmellini, feels just as anachronistic, evoking a Gilded Age power lunch spot, where deals are made within a double-height dining room amid towering, sculptural faux trees. Rooms from about $895 a night.
Fouquet’s New York
Known for its elegant hotels in Paris and jet-set vacation spots like St. Bart’s and Cannes, the French hospitality group Groupe Barrière opened its first U.S. property two years ago, the 97-room Fouquet’s New York, on a quiet cobblestoned street in TriBeCa. The red-brick facade echoes the neighborhood’s renovated warehouses, but step inside and you’re in a Parisian dreamscape conjured by Martin Brudnizki. The in-demand designer (his studio is also behind the revamped Surrey, in addition to the Fifth Avenue Hotel) filled the rooms with cut-glass chandeliers, curved sofas, fringed lampshades and a colour scheme that favours soft hues of blush, peach and celadon green. The subterranean spa, which contains a small pool, is awash in marble. There’s also a screening room, with armchairs and chaises upholstered in gold velvet. The four dining options have decadent old-world flair, too. At Le Vaux Rooftop, for example, which is only open to hotel guests and members of Fouquet’s private club, the lobster rolls come with caviar. Rooms from about $1,000 a night.
The Ned NoMad
An offshoot of the Soho House group, the Ned, which opened in 2022 in the space of the onetime NoMad Hotel, is part hotel, part members’ club, which suits the vintage, Art Deco-style décor: Guest rooms are furnished with Persian rugs, mahogany writing desks and antique travel trunks that double as in-room minibars. The hotel is also home to Cecconi’s, a Soho House staple and a favourite for wood-fired pizzas and solid Italian classics like eggplant parmigiana. At the center of the property is the Atrium bar, open only to club members and hotel guests. And around the corner, on West 28th Street, there’s Little Ned, a moody, two-story cocktail bar that would be ideal for clandestine meetings if it weren’t already such a popular spot. Rooms from about $565 a night.
The Wall Street Hotel
When the Paspaley family, founders of one of Australia’s oldest pearl companies, opened the Wall Street Hotel in the middle of Manhattan’s financial district in 2022, the neighbourhood was still struggling to reclaim its swagger following the Covid-19 pandemic that emptied out office buildings. Now the hotel’s Lounge on Pearl — a sumptuous lobby cocktail bar that anchors the early 20th-century Beaux-Arts building — draws a steady crowd most nights for after-work and pre-dinner drinks (the hotel is also home to La Marchande, the chef John Fraser’s French chophouse). Along with the lounge, the 180 guest rooms were designed by Liubasha Rose, the founder of the Miami-based firm Rose Ink Workshop, who took cues from prominent landmarks around the city including the Morgan Library and Bemelmans Bar, outfitting the spaces with watercolours, velvet and, naturally, mother-of-pearl. Rooms from about $600 a night.
Warren Street Hotel
In February, the British hotelier and interior designer Kit Kemp added a third property to her stable of Manhattan accommodations, joining the Crosby Street Hotel in SoHo and the Whitby in Midtown. The 69-room Warren Street Hotel, whose exterior is painted a conspicuous bright blue, is another welcome addition (along with Fouquet’s New York) to an otherwise sleepy corner of TriBeCa. Like Kemp’s other outposts in New York and London, this one is a pleasing amalgam of color, whimsical patterns, contemporary art — and the English love of gardens. Book one of certain suites and you’ll get a private trellised terrace evoking a wildflower-strewn meadow, thanks to a collaboration with the Brooklyn-based design company Brook Landscape. Rooms from about $925 a night.
