New York City Travel Blog

Visitors may rave of our world-renowned hotels like Trump Tower and the W Hotel, but there are alternative lodging options that provide a unique New York experience all their own – hostels. Hostelling International New York Only a short walk from Central Park and minutes from Columbia University,...

September 1st marked the eagerly awaited opening of The James New York hotel in Soho, a Big Apple branch of the popular Chicago hotel The James. The James New York, Grand Street in Soho Located on Grand Street at Thompson Street, the James New York has 114 guestrooms and suites, as well as a lobby and...

The quest for affordable, comfortable and stylish lodging in New York City continues. A while back, the New York Times wrote about the trend in tiny, chic hotel rooms. They featured places like the Ace, the Jane and the Pod (apparently the tiny trend extends to hotel names as well). Now a new crop of...

Street artist Shepard Fairey’s star has been rising steadily ever since the 2008 presidential campaign, when he designed the Barack Obama “HOPE” image that became one of the most widely recognized images of that historic election. This past weekend, crowds packed the opening of May...

This weekend, the N.Y. Times took a look at one of the latest trends in hotel living in New York City: the tiny hotel room. From the West Village to Midtown, the newest hotels resemble chic, well-appointed youth hostels, with shared bathrooms and rooms with not much more space than your average closet. In...

Fans of “The Apprentice” may remember back in 2007, when Donald Trump announced his newest project, a 50-story building in the heart of trendy Soho that would be the first condominium-hotel in New York City. That “awe-inspiring masterpiece,” as Trump called it then, is finally...