EAST VILLAGE, MANHATTAN
The Bowery Hotel
A new hotel that arrived pre-aged — velvet, firelight, and the East Village outside the door.
The Bowery Hotel opened in 2007 looking a hundred years older on purpose: a brick tower of oriental rugs, velvet armchairs, fireplaces, and a lobby bar lit like a Victorian club. The effect could have been costume; instead it became one of downtown's most loved rooms, as busy with locals as with guests.
Rooms trade on light — factory-scale windows over a low-rise stretch of the East Village — and on the sense that downtown is at the door rather than past a lobby cordon. Gemma, the hotel's trattoria, anchors the ground floor, and the terrace bar is a warm-weather fixture.
Editor’s tip
Have one drink in the lobby bar even if you are not staying — it is the best-lit room on the Bowery.
Dinner within a short walk
EAST VILLAGE, MANHATTAN
Gemma (at The Bowery Hotel)
The Bowery Hotel's candlelit trattoria — rustic Italian in the most flattering light downtown.
Italian · Date Night · $$$
~2 min on foot
EAST VILLAGE, MANHATTAN
Yoshino
Tadashi Yoshida's theatrical omakase on the Bowery, at a counter cut from a 300-year-old hinoki tree.
Japanese · Special Occasion · $$$$
~2 min on foot
While you’re staying here
