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Places to Stay: Ace Hotel New York

Written by Lucy Plint: Announcing its arrival in downtown Manhattan with a thrum of guitar strings, Ace Hotel New York is quite possibly the coolest hotel EVER. With Gibson guitars and stacks of blank sheet music in your room, if there is a place to write your first rock masterpiece, this is it.    

As any seasoned poker fiend knows, the ace is both the high and low card – a concept Manhattan’s newest boutique hotel (sister of the Portland, Palm Springs and Seattle Aces) has taken and run with. For the young, cool and almost famous, the Bunk rooms feel like the hippest hostel in town, all grey plaid fabric and street-art walls. For those with a bit more cash to splash, the Loft suites have a boho New York-apartment feel, with fabulous bay windows looking down on Broadway, filled with flea market finds. In-room Smeg refrigerators stocked with beer kegs and cheeky treats are perfect for late night jamming sessions and take care of the midnight munchies.  Click Read More for additional information and photos. 

Like a vintage CBGB’s T-shirt, Ace smacks of effortless, grungy glam. From the enormous graffitied mural created by local artists, to the turntables in every room, they’ve got it covered. Those in need of a hot new ’do needn’t look further than the lobby, where the stylistas at Rudy’s Barbershop will beautify your barnet, and there’s even a retro photobooth for before and after shots. Morning-after caffeine emergencies are taken care of in the Stumptown coffeeshop. But the trump card in Ace’s pack has got to be the Breslin, its unshaven, tattooed rocker of a restaurant. Distressed green leather and reclaimed wood floors set a suitably masculine scene for this nose-to-tail eatery, from Spotted Pig founders April Bloomfield and Ken Friedman.   

Sitting on the corner of Broadway and 29th Street, with Madison Square Gardens just down the road, for any aspiring musician in New York this is the place to be. In fact, even if you’re not a touring rockstar, you’ll find Ace Hotel, just, well, ace.