The William Vale opened in 2016 on North 12th Street, in a part of Williamsburg where most buildings stop at four to six storeys. Albo Liberis designed it, and the tower stands on a sculptural truss of four legs and a centre truss, with offices inside it and the hotel rooms on the 11th to 21st floors above. EOS Hospitality bought the hotel for $177 million in June 2024, after its owner's Chapter 11 in 2021, and kept the name.
There are 183 rooms and suites, each with floor-to-ceiling glass and a private furnished balcony, and direction is what separates them. The entry King with Balcony is 260 sq ft (24 m²) with a 71 sq ft (7 m²) balcony, sold on neighbourhood views. The tower is a slab whose long sides look north over Greenpoint and south over Williamsburg, so Manhattan belongs to its narrow west end and the corners beside it. There the Manhattan View Queen, at 240 sq ft (22 m²), and the Manhattan View King, at 260, turn the balcony to the skyline. Deep tubs start in the suites, including the Manhattan View Corner Suite with its wraparound balcony and the two-floor Vale Garden Residence, whose 1,632 sq ft (152 m²) patio has an open-air Jacuzzi.
That balcony is why it is the all-rounder: a Manhattan View room on a high floor puts Midtown in front of your own chair, from the towers around Madison Square and Hudson Yards to the Empire State Building, and the building covers the hours either side. Westlight, the bar on the 22nd floor, looks over Manhattan, the East River and Williamsburg. In summer the 60-foot pool on the fourth-floor terrace is included for guests by reservation; in 2026 it ran from 22 May to 7 September. In winter the fourth floor hosts the Winter Spa, with panoramic barrel saunas and cedar hot tubs for two, at extra cost. Leuca cooks Southern Italian downstairs, and the entry rooms sit in the mid-range.
The trade is that you are in Brooklyn and share the building, and the skyline has a new neighbour: West Wharf, a 40-storey Greenpoint tower leasing since 2023, stands just right of the Empire State Building. Bedford Avenue station is a ten-minute walk, and Midtown means a change from the L. Westlight draws the neighbourhood in, and two of the four lift banks serve it, so guests wait on busy evenings. The pool is a summer pleasure, and a nightly destination fee sits on top of the rate. Book it if you want Williamsburg's restaurants and bars at the door and Manhattan in front of you, and pay for the room that faces it.
