Why you should experience Arlo Midtown in New York, NY.
Arlo Midtown is a tailored hotel where Garment District's fashion heritage, material intelligence, vertical intensity and contemporary social culture converge within a design conceived as an abstract tribute to the neighborhood's history of making.
Set along West 38th Street near 9th Avenue and just steps from Garment District Alliance Broadway Plazas, the hotel was designed by Marvel Architects with interiors by Meyer Davis, whose concept translated tailoring and textile production into oversized architectural gestures. Reception is backed by an illuminated screen woven from leather, metal and wood, while brass, white marble and dark green textured leather establish a material style that develops through natural woods, stone, greenery and jewel-toned fabrics. An eight-story sculptural wood installation by Mesh climbs through the atrium, while preserved moss and suspended botanical forms soften the soaring concrete volume and reinforce Meyer Davis's conception of the interior as an urban refuge. The result is a hotel where woven surfaces, crafted millwork, botanical interventions and exaggerated textile references turn the Garment District's material culture into an unusually coherent piece of contemporary hospitality design.
What you should know about Arlo Midtown.
Arlo Midtown is best known for opening in 2021 as Quadrum Global's third New York Arlo property, completing a 489-key, 178,000-square-foot development on a 25,000-square-foot site the company acquired in October 2014 along the emerging corridor between Times Square, Hudson Yards and the Javits Center. The property expanded Arlo beyond the 150-square-foot micro-room formula associated with its earlier Manhattan hotels, distributing 489 guestrooms and suites across six accommodation typologies that include larger configurations and private terraces. Meyer Davis's work received the LIV Hospitality Design Award for Interior Design Hotel, Midscale & Lifestyle, while the property's broader design recognition also included a Dezeen Award, giving Arlo's largest Manhattan project international design credentials within its opening year. The 2021 debut consequently marked a significant expansion of the Arlo model, using substantially greater scale and a diversified room program to carry Quadrum's hospitality platform into Midtown following its earlier SoHo and NoMad properties.
Nearly Ninth established the opening culinary program as a 5,700-square-foot collection of interconnected environments conceived by Meyer Davis around Italian-American dining, cocktails, coffee and fluid transitions between work and social life. Will Meyer and Gray Davis organized the concept across a restaurant, Bar Room, Courtyard and 26th-floor rooftop, using natural woods, pale marble, geometric timber elements and saturated fabrics to create distinct atmospheres without breaking the visual continuity between spaces. The Courtyard sits beneath a glass ceiling surrounded by greenery, while the rooftop was conceived as a botanical setting with dense planting and lounge seating high above West 38th Street, and the project won the 2021 LIV award for Interior Design Bar Lounge as well as Interior Design's Best of Year award for hotel dining. Nearly Ninth's original character was further developed by Revolver New York through a custom sans-serif wordmark derived from West 38th Street signage and collage imagery combining celebrity photography with vintage neighborhood advertising, extending the property's Garment District context from interior architecture into graphic design.
How to fold Arlo Midtown into your trip.
Arlo Midtown works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing fashion scholarship, railway architecture and contemporary performance through the institutions that give Midtown West its unusually layered creative identity.
Begin at Museum at FIT, founded in 1969 as the Design Laboratory of Fashion Institute of Technology before Richard Martin and Harold Koda expanded its curatorial ambitions during the 1980s, developing a collection that now encompasses more than 50,000 garments and accessories spanning the eighteenth century through contemporary fashion. Continue to Moynihan Train Hall, where Skidmore, Owings & Merrill transformed the former mail-sorting room of McKim, Mead & White's 1913 Farley Building into a 255,000-square-foot rail hall opened in 2021, preserving three original steel trusses beneath four vast glass vaults while connecting passengers directly with 17 tracks serving Amtrak and the Long Island Rail Road. Conclude at The Shed, where Diller Scofidio + Renfro collaborated with Rockwell Group on an eight-level arts center opened in 2019 whose telescoping outer shell rolls along rails to create the 17,000-square-foot McCourt for large-scale visual art, music and performance. The progression moves from the preservation and interpretation of fashion through the recovery of architectural ceremony inside a former postal complex into a mechanically reconfigurable arts institution, extending Arlo Midtown's own relationship with design and creative production across the western Manhattan landscape.
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