The Ace Hotel Arrives in NY

A small hotel chain that got some ink spilled about it last year in The NY Times, The Ace Hotel, will now bring its charm to New York. They're currently setting up shop at 29th and Broadway, and bringing a Stumptown Coffee (a favorite amongst Pacific Northwesters) with it. The grand opening will be in Winter 08/09, and it will come with a new restaurant from the people behind The Spotted Pig. The Ace tell us a little bit about what to expect:

Ace is the low card and the high card. Our basic rooms are affordable but replete with cool amenities. Our big suites offer all the luxury you would expect from a high-end hotel. Ace Hotel New York is improvisational, a mix of styles, historical periods and objects that come together in layers. The hotel’s design takes its cues from the vibrancy of street life, the honesty of materials and the potential of invention. It is about soul, latent in the old architecture and re-introduced through the new design.

Hotel Chatter got a first look at the New York Ace, and says the rooms have a residential feel, and the one model room opened included a "full size SMEG refrigerator (think That 70's Show) stocked with goods from local NYC names like Brooklyn Brewery." They just got some renderings together (below), and to get a real feel what it's going to be like, check out their rooms in Portland and Seattle...which are nicer, and larger, than some NYC apartments.

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By Jen Carlson in Arts and Events on August 26, 2008 10:01 AM

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west side Michael

The 28th street and Broadway area is the most shithellbent area in new york city even the cops don't

hang there,

I guess the tourists can watch the African bootleg gangs (and friends) that reside

there in the daytime shoot or stab each other

for local turf....Cool!

It's the neighborhood Bloomy the Mayor has not

the nerve to visit and view ,The worst area of

New York,period.

When did the Breslin tenants ever try to go

to a Community meeting about the crime here

in the last 10 years.??

I guess this new hotel won't mind if you smoke

or do drugs as long as you look OK and pay the

bill.Ain't that what would fit in at

"The Zouk"?

NannyState

"Shared bathrooms"? In this location, you need a separate shower for the whore.

Barbj8

Doesn't look very comfy. I like the plush duvets and the fluffy pillows at the so-called boutique hotels. And in the third picture second section, don't they know that one is not allowed to burn candles in a hotel room. Imagine the insurance premiums.

whitecastlerock

I miss the good old days of the SROs and welfare hotels that were in this area.

JMH

I'm going to hold off on commenting about whether this hotel is actually "affordable," as the press release claims it is, until there's more information available, but my hunch is that in fact it is not.

It should also be noted that a "standard room" in their Seattle hotel, $99/night (quite affordable, to be fair), has shared bathrooms. Personally, "cool amenities" like a refrigerator with local microbrews are nice, but not having to share a shower is nicer.