Why you should experience Arthouse Hotel New York City in New York, NY.
Arthouse Hotel New York City is a bohemian hotel where Upper West Side's artistic inheritance, residential intimacy, performance culture and Broadway energy converge inside a century-old building that has repeatedly reinvented its relationship with the neighborhood.
Set along Broadway near West 77th Street and just steps from Beacon Theatre, the property began in 1919 as an apartment building before its residential spaces gradually shifted toward single-room occupancy and eventually hospitality. A 1991 conversion introduced the Broadway American Hotel, while a far more extensive 1999 overhaul created On the Ave, adding private bathrooms throughout the accommodation inventory along with upper-level suites and terraces. Surviving elements from the building's earlier residential era include an antique fireplace and a 1920s French elevator system, physical remnants that still anchor the lobby to the address's pre-hotel history. The resulting property carries more than a century of Upper West Side evolution within the same Broadway structure, moving from apartments through budget lodging and independent hospitality while retaining fragments of the domestic architecture that preceded each reinvention.
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Arthouse Hotel New York City is best known for entering its defining contemporary design chapter in 2013, when On the Ave became NYLO New York City and Stonehill & Taylor collaborated with design consultant Stéphane Dupoux on a 285-key renovation inspired by New York's Jazz Age, industrial architecture and speakeasy culture. Michael Suomi and the Stonehill & Taylor team expanded the original 1,500-square-foot lobby to 2,940 square feet across two levels, organizing it into the Piano Lounge, LOCL Bar and Library while exposing concrete floors, beams and brick and preserving an original ceiling pattern. The accommodation program incorporated 33 suites and commissioned original artwork from emerging local artists, while custom desks referenced industrial lockers and wing-backed chairs introduced a residential counterpoint to NYLO's steel, brick and concrete vocabulary. NYLO became Arthouse Hotel in early 2019 after an arts platform introduced as Arthouse @ NYLO in 2016 evolved into the property's primary identity, with the relaunch extending its emphasis on exhibitions, live music, comedy and design-focused programming.
RedFarm gives the property a separate culinary authorship through restaurateur Ed Schoenfeld and chef Joe Ng's greenmarket interpretation of Chinese cooking, a concept that began downtown before expanding to the Upper West Side and developing a following around inventive dim sum. The hotel's 1,200-square-foot RedFarm dining room combines painted white brick, exposed wooden beams, farmhouse furniture and patterned textiles with dishes including Pac Man Dumplings and marinated rib steak with steamed baby bok choy. Serafina Upper West adds a Northern Italian register centered on fresh pasta, pizza, seafood and meats, with colorful frescoes surrounding a prominently positioned pizza oven and broad Broadway-facing windows. Arthouse Bar completes the culinary and social composition through a Prohibition-inspired setting, zinc bar, library atmosphere and live programming, allowing Chinese cooking, Italian dining and cocktail culture to function as distinct extensions of the arts-driven character established during the property's NYLO and Arthouse eras.
How to fold Arthouse Hotel New York City into your trip.
Arthouse Hotel New York City works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing natural science, historical collecting and performance culture through three institutions that reveal the intellectual and artistic range of the Upper West Side.
Begin at American Museum of Natural History, founded in 1869 after Albert Smith Bickmore secured support from figures including Theodore Roosevelt Sr., J. Pierpont Morgan, Joseph Choate and William E. Dodge Jr., before Calvert Vaux and J. Wrey Mould conceived an ambitious museum complex for Manhattan Square and collections eventually expanded into fields spanning human cultures, biodiversity and planetary science. Continue to New-York Historical Society, founded by a group of New Yorkers in 1804 and established in its York & Sawyer-designed Central Park West building between 1903 and 1908, where eight engaged Ionic columns frame an institution whose holdings grew to encompass colonial manuscripts, rare books, maps, paintings, decorative arts and John James Audubon's watercolors for The Birds of America. Conclude at Beacon Theatre, where Walter W. Ahlschlager designed the 1929 movie palace before its evolution into a major concert venue, with a 2009 restoration recovering decorative painting obscured beneath decades of later finishes and The Allman Brothers Band ultimately accumulating 238 appearances before playing its final concert there in October 2014. The progression moves from Bickmore's scientific institution through more than two centuries of historical collecting into Ahlschlager's surviving performance palace, revealing the unusually concentrated relationship between scholarship, art and live culture surrounding Arthouse Hotel New York City.
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