Library Hotel (New York City)

Description: 299 Madison Avenue / At 41st Street / New York City / NY 10017. / The Library Hotel is a 60-room boutique hotel in New ... more

Library Hotel (New York City) ... York City, located at 299 Madison Avenue (at 41st Street), near the New York Public Library, Bryant Park, and Grand Central Terminal.

Newest Review: ... to a hotel where it lived up to the photos on its website. Our 10th floor view was over 41st street, which was fairly ... more

... uninspiring but better than the view of an alley we'd had in the previous hotel. The deluxe room was spacious by New York standards, with a large bed (in America would be a queen, U.K. maybe a king though), with a ginormously thick mattress, making the bed quite a height off the ground, numerous layers of bedding with a plush throw on top, and lots of BIG, fluffy pillows. I was in heaven really, nothing depresses me more than flat, saggy pillows! The bed had a large leather headboard, and all of the furnishings were quality...more

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Library Hotel (New York City): File Me Impressed! (2274 words)
by - written on 02/04/07 (Very useful, 209 readings)
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I lived in New York City for a few years, but had little experience of its hotels until after I'd moved away. My husband and I stayed in the Library Hotel in late August of 2004 for two nights. After spending a few nights in one of its sister hotels the Casablanca we had to change accommodation due to room availability. The Library Hotel is presumably named for its location, right across from the New York Public Library and Bryant Park. It is also themed after libraries down to the finest detail, with rooms being numbered by the Dewey Decimal system, and each floor having a different subject or theme, such as The Arts or History, with each guest room being a ... Read the complete review