The Best Boutique Hotels in the Meatpacking District, New York

December 15, 2023

Tablet is your source for discovering the world’s most exciting boutique hotels — places where you’ll find a memorable experience, not just a room for the night. For over twenty years we’ve scoured the earth, evaluating hotels for every taste and budget, creating a hand-picked selection that’s proven and unforgettable. Now, we’re the official hotel selection of the legendary MICHELIN Guide. Here are the top boutique hotels in the Meatpacking District, NYC.:

The Jane Hotel

It’s a long-standing critique of urban boutique hotels that underneath it all they’re simply nightspots with rooms attached. For a hotel like the Jane, however, it’s less a criticism than a simple statement of fact. Sean McPherson and Eric Goode might be annoyed if you called their Bowery or Maritime hotel rooms an afterthought — but at the Jane they’d have to admit that the nightlife is probably the star of the show.

That’s less true in fact than it was before. In its first phase the Jane was little more than the Jane Ballroom plus a selection of bunk rooms, small even by New York standards, which felt more like the cabins of an ocean liner than anything else. Rather than run from it, though, they’ve embraced the resemblance: the newest phase of the Jane adds 40 “captain’s cabins,” full-sized bedrooms with stylish all-white en suite bathrooms, very much cut from the same bohemian cloth as the Bowery Hotel’s excellent bedrooms.

Gansevoort Meatpacking NYC

The Meatpacking District, perhaps the most hedonistic of all of Manhattan’s neighborhoods, is hardly short on statement-making, nightlife-oriented hotels. The neighborhood’s messier commercial past is all but extinct, the words “meat market” having taken on a less literal connotation for the crowds who teeter along the cobblestone streets these days. And yet even as more and more eye-catching hotels and their attendant nightlife scenes sprout up, the Gansevoort hotel remains a perennial standout — its rooftop lounge an enduringly inviting place to clink cocktail glasses, its sweeping views of the Hudson as inspiring as ever.

Housed in a glass and metal tower, the hotel stands in contrast to the neighborhood’s predominantly low-rise industrial architecture. At thirteen stories it would be no more than a bump in the Midtown pavement; down here, though, the skyline is lower, and Hotel Gansevoort towers over most of its neighbors. You may even be able to peer mockingly down upon the star-studded rooftop of the members-only Soho House from the comfort of your room.

The Standard High Line

André Balazs’s line of Standard hotels took its time getting to New York. Now it seems they were waiting for something big, and this is it — for a group that’s made its name with clever renovations, a ground-up new build is a major undertaking.

This Standard hotel looks more or less like a slightly bent UN building on stilts, straddling the High Line, the elevated former railway that’s been turned into lower Manhattan’s new green paradise. Even the interiors feel a bit utopian, decked out in a retro-future style that pays homage to Scandinavian mid-century modernism — a welcome departure from the faux-Romantic grittiness that seems to prevail in the Meatpacking District.

The Maritime Hotel

The Maritime Hotel was designed in 1966 for the National Maritime Union; hence its name, and its nautical theme. Today it is one of New York’s hipster hangouts, owing as much to its location (just off the Meatpacking District) as to the charms of the hotel itself.

This is not a traditional hotel, by any stretch — all rooms face westward, looking over the Hudson and New Jersey through five-foot porthole windows. The rooms are compact, but well-designed, with built-in furniture, so that all the necessities (storage space, work desk, flat-screen TV) easily fit into the tiny space, and wireless internet, naturally, takes no space at all. The décor almost borders on kitsch, but is actually quite charming, if one accepts the ship's cabin conceit in all its wood-paneled glory.

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