13 hotels · United States
The great hotels of New York City
13 luxury hotels in New York City are documented in this guide, ordered by international renown. The oldest, The Peninsula New York, opened in 1905; the most recent, Aman New York, in 2022. Each page gives the history, the key figures and a direct line to the events team.
Plaza Hotel
Henry Hardenbergh’s 1907 château on Fifth Avenue at Central Park, home of the Palm Court and of Eloise.
282 rooms
Aman New York
Eighty-three suites in the 1921 Crown Building on Fifth Avenue, the first home of the Museum of Modern Art, opened by Aman in August 2022.
83 rooms
The Peninsula New York
The 1905 Gotham Hotel on Fifth Avenue at 55th Street, a Beaux-Arts tower that became The Peninsula New York in 1988.
235 rooms
The Mark
A 1927 Upper East Side hotel reborn in 2009 with Jacques Grange's black-and-white striped lobby and the largest hotel penthouse in the United States.
150 rooms
Four Seasons Hotel New York Downtown
A Four Seasons in Robert A.M. Stern's 30 Park Place tower, next to the Woolworth Building and a block from the World Trade Center.
Baccarat Hotel New York
The first hotel of the 1764 French crystal house, opened in 2015 across West 53rd Street from MoMA with 114 rooms lit by Baccarat chandeliers.
114 rooms
The Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park
Park-view rooms come with telescopes in Emery Roth's 1930 St. Moritz building, converted for the Ritz-Carlton on Central Park South.
The Lowell
Seventy-four rooms on East 63rd Street, 33 of them with wood-burning fireplaces, in a 1927 Art Deco apartment hotel still run by one family.
74 rooms
Mandarin Oriental, New York
The lobby is on the 35th floor, so the lounge, the rooms and the lap pool all look over Central Park and the Hudson from Columbus Circle.
The Greenwich Hotel
In Robert De Niro's Tribeca hotel, the spa pool lies beneath the timber frame of an old Japanese farmhouse rebuilt in New York.
The Carlyle
The 1930 Art Deco tower on Madison Avenue, home of Bemelmans Bar and the Café Carlyle.
The Pierre
A Schultze & Weaver tower on Fifth Avenue facing Central Park, opened in 1930, bought by J. Paul Getty and the scene of the 1972 jewel robbery.
189 rooms
The Knickerbocker
John Jacob Astor IV opened it at 42nd and Broadway in 1906; Prohibition shut it in 1920 and it reopened as a hotel with 330 rooms in February 2015.
330 rooms