Is there anything more refreshing (and luxurious) than taking a dip in one of the city’s hotel pools with a view? From the largest hotel pool (hint: it's in Brooklyn) to a rooftop pool that is open year-round, and a relaxing, heated, het-equipped hydrotherapy pool in one of the city's newest hotels, we're sharing a list of our favorite places to make a splash.
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Hotel Barrière Fouquet's New York
Tribeca
Hotel Barrière Fouquet’s New York is a combination of two well-loved phrases we never thought we’d see together; the Parisian luxury hotel brand has indeed set up shop in Tribeca, marrying some very French Art Deco–inspired interiors with a post-industrial brick structure that could hardly be more Lower Manhattan. The result, as you might imagine, is a hit in both the fashion and food worlds, and gets to the heart of what people love about both Tribeca and Paris.
Gansevoort Meatpacking NYC
Meatpacking District
When it first opened, Gansevoort Meatpacking NYC was one of a select few hotels that helped turn this downtown Manhattan neighborhood from a niche nightlife district into a viable mainstream destination. And now that the surrounding streets have filled in with upscale retailers and cultural fixtures like the Whitney Museum of American Art, Gansevoort Meatpacking NYC is back with a luxe new look, an impressive contemporary art collection, and an atmosphere that’s a little less frenetic and a little more laid-back.
Modernhaus Soho
Soho
ModernHaus is blessed with a classic Downtown location that’s as close to the upscale shops of Tribeca as it is to the cobblestone streets and artists’ lofts that made SoHo famous. And in terms of aesthetic inspiration, it’s a bit of both: the building, a modern concrete-and-glass tower, is very 21st-century SoHo, while the rooms and the décor embrace the classic mid-20th-century loft style for which downtown Manhattan is so well known.
SIXTY LES
Lower East Side
Over the last few decades the center of gravity of hipness in New York has tracked steadily to the south and east. And given how long these things take to make, it’s natural that only just now are we beginning to see high-end boutique hotels on the Lower East Side — among the first wave, the SIXTY LES, on Allen just south of Houston.
The William Vale
Williamsburg
In Williamsburg, whose rare high-rise buildings tend towards the nondescript, the William Vale is an immediate eye-catcher. The building, by Albo Liberis, is unmistakable, and with an exterior like that, you expect big things from what’s inside. And, in what has to be considered a leap forward for the Brooklyn hotel scene, the William Vale delivers — Williamsburg’s finally got the modern-luxe boutique hotel it was always destined to have.
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