Neither has a spa or pool; both have a big-name chef downstairs. The Fifth Avenue Hotel, from about $760 with no fee on top, for butler service and NoMad; The Beekman, A Thompson Hotel, from about $505 plus a nightly fee, for a cast-iron atrium and Downtown on foot.
The new classicA 1907 Fifth Avenue bank, opened as a hotel in 2023 and dressed as though it always was one.
$$$$From about $760 a night
Choose The Fifth Avenue Hotel if
The catch
The 1907 building holds only suites, from about $2,065 a night in January. Every standard room is in the 2023 tower.
The design oneAn 1883 office block built round a nine-storey atrium of cast-iron galleries, an interior landmark since 2024, with Colicchio and Boulud restaurants downstairs.
$$$From about $505 a night
Choose The Beekman, A Thompson Hotel if
The catch
Laissez Faire, the club in the cellar, plays until 4am on Fridays and Saturdays, and The Bar Room serves until 1am, so low floors hear the weekend.
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The verdict
Neither has a spa or pool; both have a big-name chef downstairs. The Fifth Avenue Hotel, from about $760 with no fee on top, for butler service and NoMad; The Beekman, A Thompson Hotel, from about $505 plus a nightly fee, for a cast-iron atrium and Downtown on foot.
Questions people ask
Neither has a spa or pool; both have a big-name chef downstairs. The Fifth Avenue Hotel, from about $760 with no fee on top, for butler service and NoMad; The Beekman, A Thompson Hotel, from about $505 plus a nightly fee, for a cast-iron atrium and Downtown on foot.
Book it for the bank, the restaurant in its banking hall and the service every room gets, and pay up to The Corner King for the light. Sleeping inside the 1907 building itself starts at a Mansion suite. A new hotel built to feel like an old New York one: a 1907 bank on Fifth Avenue, maximalist interiors and a restaurant that opens its tables four weeks out. It is central, expensive and made for eating and drinking in, with a gym but no spa or pool.
There is no pool. There is no beach; the nearest is a drive away.
Book The Beekman for a landmarked Victorian atrium, with the Brooklyn Bridge and the 9/11 Memorial on foot. Pay up to a Premium King on a high floor, and make the bar downstairs your night out rather than your alarm clock. Design and history are the whole argument: an 1883 office block wrapped round a nine-storey atrium of cast-iron galleries, with two big-name kitchens downstairs and a busy public bar on the floor of it. It is lively rather than restful, and there is no spa or pool.
There is no pool. There is no beach; the nearest is a drive away.