Boutique and Luxury Hotels New York

Fitzgerald wrote that New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. He meant Manhattan in 1922, but the line still earns its keep on the present-day skyline — the city remains the place every American novel of consequence has had to deal with at some point, and the place every visitor's first impression of the United States is calibrated against. New York the state, however, is not just New York the city. The state stretches three hundred miles north to the Canadian border and a hundred and twenty miles east along the Atlantic to the tip of Long Island, taking in the Hudson Valley orchards, the Catskill mountains, the Finger Lakes wineries, and the Hamptons. Most boutique itineraries pick the city for its first half and one of the country escapes for the second.

Our New York collection sits across four geographies — Manhattan itself, the Hudson Valley two hours north, East Hampton on the Atlantic shoreline, and the quieter North Fork of Long Island.

Manhattan holds the city's three hotels in three different downtown and midtown moods. The Library Hotel sits on Madison Avenue directly opposite the New York Public Library — sixty rooms organised by the Dewey Decimal system, six thousand books distributed across the ten floors by subject category, a Reading Room that runs a complimentary wine and cheese hour every evening, and a rooftop bar (Bookmarks) under the Empire State and Chrysler skylines. The owner, Henry Kallan, emigrated from Czechoslovakia at twenty-one as a busboy and built a small Manhattan hotel collection on the back of literary themes; he visits the property regularly and knows the staff and the regulars by name. Arlo NoMad is the midtown counterpart — a 1920s tower reworked into a 249-room micro-hotel a block off Fifth Avenue, with a 31st-floor rooftop bar (The Heights) where the Empire State is close enough to feel personal and a glass floor lets nervous guests look directly down to the street. Walker Hotel Tribeca, downtown, sits in a converted ribbon factory in the warehouse blocks below Canal Street — exposed brick, jazz nights at the bar, the kind of property travellers pick when they want SoHo and Tribeca walking distance from the lobby.

The Hudson Valley, two hours north of Manhattan by car or train, is the country counterpart most New Yorkers escape to on weekends — orchards, dairy farms, antique towns and the back-to-the-land farm-to-table movement that has been settled there since the 1990s. Hasbrouck House, in the historic hamlet of Stone Ridge, is a 1757 Dutch Colonial manor restored from dilapidation in 2017 by the Brooklyn-based Gowanus Hospitality team. Nineteen rooms across the main house, the carriage house and the stable house, all furnished with locally sourced vintage pieces and Frette linens. The grounds carry a hundred-year-old Gatsby-era outdoor pool, walks down to a private lake, and a farm-to-table restaurant (Butterfield) on the Michelin Guide that builds menus around what the chef can pick from the kitchen garden that morning.

East Hampton sits a hundred miles east of Manhattan at the eastern end of Long Island's South Fork — the Hamptons proper, with the Atlantic beaches and the Greek Revival cottages along Main Street. c/o The Maidstone, a fifteen-minute walk from Main Beach, is a 150-year-old inn reimagined under Scandinavian ownership: nineteen rooms each named after a Scandinavian luminary (Andersen's room is whimsical, Munch's is "fantastically lugubrious" per the hotel's own description), Gotland sheepskins on the beds, hand-painted clogs at the doormat, and Kronan bicycles for guests to ride into the village.

The North Fork of Long Island is the quieter, more agricultural counterpart to the Hamptons — a peninsula of vineyards, oyster farms and clapboard fishing villages that runs east from Riverhead toward Greenport. The Shoals Suites and Slips, on Peconic Bay in Southold, is a small Thomas Juul-Hansen-designed property where each of the twenty suites comes with a private boat slip directly outside — guests can step from the suite to a sailing dinghy or paddleboard in seconds. Local oysters from the women-run Little Ram Oyster Co. on the lawn, North Fork rosé from the vineyards inland, and Michelin-starred chef John Fraser running the food programme.

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