Top 10 Luxury Hotels in New York, 2026

Aman took the landmark Crown Building at Fifth and 57th and turned it, in 2022, into the most expensive and most private hotel in the city — 83 all-suite keys behind Jean-Michel Gathy's Japanese-inflected calm, most with a working fireplace and rooms starting at 68 square metres, the largest in Manhattan. The three-floor, 25,000-square-foot Aman Spa with its 20-metre pool is the most complete urban wellness floor in New York; Nama pours the omakase and Arva the Italian; and the basement Jazz Club is a members'-club secret. Booked with Aman's own partner benefits.

The Art Deco landmark closed in 2017 and reopened, at last, on 15 July 2025 after one of the most ambitious restorations in the city's history — the Grand Ballroom, the Silver Corridor and the Peacock Alley lounge (with Cole Porter's own Steinway) painstakingly brought back. The room count fell from around 1,400 to just 375, which makes these among the largest keys in New York, from 570 square feet. Michael Anthony's two-storey brasserie Lex Yard leads the dining, with the Japanese Yoshoku alongside. We book it with Hilton's luxury-programme benefits.

I. M. Pei's limestone tower — its soaring backlit onyx lobby one of the great hotel entrances in America — reopened in November 2024 after a long closure born of a dispute between owner Ty Warner and the brand, now resolved. The rooms are among the largest of the classic houses, the service runs on Four Seasons' unflappable systems, and the upper floors look clean over Central Park. As Four Seasons Preferred Partners we hold upgrades, breakfast and credit here as a matter of routine.

For nearly a century the discreet choice of presidents and royalty, The Carlyle is the Upper East Side rendered as a hotel — Bemelmans Bar, with Ludwig Bemelmans' Madeline murals and nightly piano, is the most romantic room in the city, and Café Carlyle keeps cabaret alive a few doors down. Rooms carry decorators' hands rather than a brand template; the location, off the museum mile, is old-money Manhattan itself. We book it with Rosewood Elite benefits.

The 1905 Beaux-Arts landmark on Fifth has just completed a property-wide redesign — all 219 rooms and suites, the Palm Court and lobby, and a fully reimagined rooftop, Pen Top, now wrapped in an operable louvered roof that keeps the best terrace views on Fifth Avenue open year-round. Peninsula's obsessive in-room technology and the rooftop's skyline panorama are the draws. We book it through Virtuoso with Peninsula's programme benefits.

A McKim, Mead & White mansion joined to a new 24-storey tower, reopened in December 2023 after a seven-year restoration and instantly NoMad's most talked-about address. Martin Brudnizki's interiors are joyful maximalism — pattern, colour and history layered to the hilt — and Andrew Carmellini's Café Carmellini, with its sculptural trees and blue banquettes, is one of the hardest tables in the city. 153 rooms and suites, many with terraces.

The newest name on the list, opened September 2025 in one of Bjarke Ingels' twisting One High Line towers above the High Line and the Hudson. Faena's theatrical Old-New-York glamour — layered by the brand's studio with designer Peter Mikic — peaks in the lobby 'Cathedral', where Argentine artist Diego Gravinese's monumental mural envelops the room. Just 120 bespoke keys, almost every one with a river view; the Tierra Santa spa follows in spring 2026. Faena's first house outside Miami and Buenos Aires.

The Ritz-Carlton's 2022 NoMad tower is the group's most contemporary New York house, and its rooftop is the reason to book: Nubeluz by José Andrés sits on the 50th floor with 270-degree skyline views and two terraces, while his Mediterranean Zaytinya, in a Rockwell Group room, handles the street level. 250 rooms with a downtown outlook the uptown icons can't offer. We book it with Marriott STARS benefits — and your Bonvoy points stay intact.

Jacques Grange's bold black-and-white geometry turned this 1927 landmark into the Upper East Side's most fashionable address — named the World's Best City Hotel by Tatler in 2026, and, every May, the unofficial dressing room of the Met Gala. The Mark Restaurant by Jean-Georges anchors the ground floor, the service is famously polished, and the location off Madison is the quiet luxury of the museum district. Independently owned, and all the better for it.

The crystal-maker's only hotel, across the street from MoMA, is Midtown glamour distilled — 114 rooms and suites with marble bathrooms and Maison Francis Kurkdjian amenities, and the Grand Salon beneath 35-foot ceilings hung with Baccarat chandeliers, where live jazz plays twice a week. A La Mer spa and one of the best afternoon teas in the city round it out. We book it through Virtuoso with amenity benefits.