Why you should experience Ace Hotel New York in New York, NY.
Ace Hotel New York is a bohemian hotel where NoMad's musical inheritance, creative experimentation, architectural patina and communal energy converge inside a former residential hotel recast as one of Manhattan's defining cultural gathering places.
Set along West 29th Street near Broadway and just steps from Tin Pan Alley, the hotel occupies the former Hotel Breslin, a 1904 Beaux-Arts building designed by Clinton & Russell on a trapezoidal parcel previously occupied by the Sturtevant House. The 12-story brick-and-terra-cotta structure originally contained 344 rooms across 165,000 square feet, with a mansard roof and prominent corner cap giving the building a distinctive profile above a Broadway corridor then illuminated by the electric signs of hotels including the Victoria and Hoffman. Roman and Williams approached the interiors as accumulated history, preserving mosaic floors and coffered ceilings while layering vintage furniture, industrial objects, taxidermy, leather, plaid textiles and artwork into spaces conceived with the unruly character of an inherited country house overtaken by a younger generation. The result is a hotel where Clinton & Russell's early-twentieth-century architecture and Roman and Williams' deliberately imperfect interiors turn more than a century of accumulated material culture into the foundation of Ace's creative identity.
What you should know about Ace Hotel New York.
Ace Hotel New York is best known for opening in May 2009 with 269 rooms, bringing Alex Calderwood and Ace Hotel's Pacific Northwest hospitality culture to Manhattan at a moment when the surrounding blocks were beginning a profound creative revival. The project commissioned more than 70 artists to contribute work throughout guestrooms and public spaces, including Michael Anderson's lobby installation, embedding contemporary artistic production directly into the accommodation experience. Hotel Breslin's earlier residents and regulars supplied an unusually eccentric cultural lineage, including filmmaker, painter and musicologist Harry Smith, boxer Gene Tunney, photographer José María Mora and businessman James Buchanan “Diamond Jim” Brady, while Smith's relationship with the building later inspired a lobby mural. The opening connected Ace's contemporary network of artists, musicians and designers with a building that had already accumulated associations with boxing, photography, experimental film and New York nightlife across the twentieth century.
Restaurateurs Ken Friedman and April Bloomfield extended the hotel's cultural influence through The Breslin, named for the building's earlier character and conceived as a meat-centered, pan-European counterpart to their acclaimed West Village gastropub The Spotted Pig. Portland roaster Duane Sorenson simultaneously selected the property for Stumptown Coffee Roasters' first branded New York cafe, giving the lobby an influential coffeehouse component that helped blur conventional boundaries among hotel, workplace and neighborhood social space. The Breslin eventually gave way to Koloman in 2022, where Austrian-born chef Markus Glocker combined French technique with his Central European heritage after previously earning a MICHELIN star at Bâtard and working in Gordon Ramsay kitchens in London and New York; Koloman closed at the hotel in August 2025 ahead of a planned relocation. Across those successive culinary eras, Bloomfield, Friedman, Sorenson and Glocker turned the ground floor into an evolving expression of the independent restaurant and coffee culture that became inseparable from Ace Hotel New York's broader influence on twenty-first-century hospitality.
How to fold Ace Hotel New York into your trip.
Ace Hotel New York works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing American music publishing, early skyscraper engineering and Gilded Age collecting through the cultural geography surrounding Broadway and Madison Square.
Begin at Tin Pan Alley, where the row of buildings at 47 through 55 West 28th Street became the center of American popular-music publishing around the turn of the twentieth century, drawing composers and lyricists including Irving Berlin and George M. Cohan into an industry whose sheet music helped transmit songs nationally before radio transformed popular entertainment. Continue to Flatiron Building, where Daniel Burnham's firm completed the steel-framed Fuller Building in 1902 on the triangular parcel formed by Broadway and 5th Avenue, compressing its northern tip into one of Manhattan's most dramatic architectural responses to an irregular street grid. Conclude at The Morgan Library & Museum, where financier Pierpont Morgan commissioned Charles Follen McKim in 1902 to create an Italian Renaissance-inspired private library completed in 1906, before Morgan's son Jack opened the collection to the public in 1924 and Renzo Piano unified the campus through a major 2006 expansion. The progression moves from the songwriting economy that once filled West 28th Street through Burnham's experiment in steel construction into Morgan and McKim's culture of collecting, revealing the extraordinary concentration of music, architecture and creative patronage surrounding Ace Hotel New York.
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