Harlem to DUMBO in twenty stays: uptown classics on Madison, Aman and the Ned in Midtown, SoHo and Tribeca's design institutions, the Lower East Side's reborn bank building, and Williamsburg and Brooklyn Bridge Park with the skyline in the window.
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Straightforward, well kept rooms right on Frederick Douglass Boulevard, which puts the restaurants, barbershops and Sunday services of central Harlem within a few blocks. The best value base uptown.
Pip’s Tip Straightforward and good value on Frederick Douglass Boulevard, walking distance to the Apollo.
A 125th Street address a short walk from the Apollo, with a piano lounge downstairs where local musicians play. Upper floors look out over Central Park and the Hudson.
Pip’s Tip On 125th Street with a piano lounge downstairs and park views. Short walk to the Apollo.
Ninety years of Upper East Side discretion, and Bemelmans Bar downstairs still has the murals, the low light and a piano most nights. Rooms are quiet and properly grown.
Pip’s Tip Bemelmans Bar is downstairs and worth the visit even if you do not stay. Ninety years of Upper East Side discretion.
Jacques Grange black and white marble, some of the largest suites in the city, and a lobby running on Madison Avenue energy. Jean-Georges handles the restaurant.
Five floors of the Crown Building turned into calm: 83 suites, a fireplace in every one, a three level spa and a Garden Terrace hanging over Fifth Avenue. Priced accordingly.
A 1903 landmark with a members club upstairs and a dark, velvet ground floor that fills after dinner. Rooms lean louche, heavy on brass, tile and deep color.
The original SoHo hotel and still the standard: loft proportions, steel columns, deep tubs, Mercer Kitchen in the cellar and cast iron streets outside the door.
Kit Kemp color and pattern on a quiet SoHo block, with a sculpture garden, a shaded terrace off the bar and a private screening room. Loud in the best way.
Danish minimalism where SoHo meets Chinatown: pale wood, linen, big windows and 207 rooms that run calmer than the corner outside. Good value for the address.
The 1912 Jarmulowsky Bank restored down to the plaster, now 113 rooms with terrazzo baths. Corner Bar and the Swan Room pull a downtown crowd that would come anyway.
Compact rooms with big steel casement windows, some opening onto private terraces, and a lobby bar built around a fireplace. Step out and the Lower East Side is still going.
Moroccan rugs, oak floors, marble tubs and a lobby that feels like a private club with the door left open. Gemma keeps the ground floor busy well past eleven.
De Niro's Tribeca hotel: 88 rooms, no two alike, a lantern lit pool in the Shibui Spa and a courtyard that mutes the street. Service with no performance in it.
The Django, a low ceilinged jazz room with live sets most nights, sits in the basement. Add a cinema and a brass lobby bar and you may never leave the building.
Firmdale's newest New York room: bold fabrics, tall windows, a brasserie locals actually use, and a Tribeca block that goes quiet once the offices empty.
A nine story Victorian atrium under a pyramid skylight, wrapped by rooms with real character. Temple Court is downstairs and the district empties at night, which is the point.
The old Battery Maritime Building on the harbor, dressed in 1930s Italian mood. Members club energy, 47 rooms, and water on three sides with ferries sliding past the glass.
A 1901 cooperage in Williamsburg with poured concrete floors, factory windows and Manhattan across the water. The rooftop bar and the restaurant downstairs are institutions.
Brass, velvet and a rooftop Israeli grill house from Michael Solomonov, over a lobby people work and drink in all day. Genuinely good rooms at fair Brooklyn money.
Reclaimed wood, living plants and floor to ceiling glass facing the bridge and the harbor. The rooftop bar looks straight at Lower Manhattan and the park starts at the door.
Bemelmans Bar, Café Carlyle, and eighty-plus years of uptown doing it properly.
Group rates when the family travels. Members hear first.
Stays are one chapter of Pip's Lifestyle, find the lounges, rooftops, brunch spots and the Domino Club below.
