

But the sweet spot just might be small midtown properties like the Redbury or the Archer Hotel, in freshly renovated older buildings with competitive nightly rates ($206 to $249 in winter). New hotels have sprung up in slowly changing neighborhoods, such as Public, hotelier Ian Schrager’s bastion of hipness in the still-gentrifying Lower East Side. Happily, with more than 450 hotels, Manhattan has a room for most budgets (though be prepared to spend more than you would in other cities). from uptown palaces like the Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park, to lavish boutique properties like the Gramercy Park Hotel.


As befits this city of excess, it has some of the best (and most expensive) lodging in the U.S.
