GRAMERCY PARK HOTEL
| Address | 2 Lexington Avenue; NY 10010 by 21st Street |
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| Neighbourhood | Gramercy Park | See on map |
| Subway | 23rd St [6] |
| Telephone | +1 212 920 3300 |
| Website | http://www.gramercyparkhotel.com |
| Price | From USD 345 | Check availability |
The Gramercy Park Hotel’s haute bohemian heritage has been honored and renewed by Ian Schrager. A $210-million renovation with the help of artist Julian Schnabel has successfully transformed this long-loved property into a classy urban retreat. The hotel resides next to the city’s only private park – and guests get a key. The lobby is an art lover’s dream with Warhols, Hirsts, Twomblys and Basquiats adorning the walls, the 185 rooms are spacious with a deluxe mix of antique and contemporary, and the restaurant serves high-end Chinese, while the Rose and Jade bars and rooftop terrace offer a chic nightlife scene full of gorgeous people.
What others say
Mr & Mrs Smith
A beguiling muddle of styles, colours and spaces, the boho Gramercy Park Hotel is clearly a product of Ian Schrager’s idiosyncratic imagination. Exposed brickwork stands alongside bare wood, lush scarlet drapes tickle stark black-leather furniture, and Louis XV chairs sit beneath works by Cy Twombly and Damien Hirst. Add to this a wonderful East Side location, access to the city’s only private park – where children can play freely – and stunning rooftop gardens, and you’ve got a place as edgy, cool and unclassifiable as New York City itself.
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Tablet Hotels
18.5 of 20. The fact that it’s Ian Schrager’s first hotel venture since his departure from the Morgans Hotel Group means that the Gramercy Park Hotel qualifies as big news, and upon the occasion of its opening much ink was spilled beneath any number of headlines, all of which said something roughly like The Boutique Hotel Is Dead, Long Live Ian Schrager. For the real news, you see, is that he has apparently repudiated the very concept of the hip hotel, a concept which if you’ve been following along was born of the 1980s collaboration between Schrager himself and Philippe Starck, and which has since been done absolutely to death by just about everyone else.
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