Why you should experience EVEN Hotel New York Midtown East in New York, NY.
EVEN Hotel New York Midtown East is an energetic wellness hotel where Midtown East's corporate cadence, postwar internationalism and vertical architecture meet a hospitality concept engineered around movement and restoration.
Set along East 44th Street near 2nd Avenue and just steps from Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice, the hotel occupies the lower portion of a slender tower designed by Peter Poon Architects and completed in 2016, with a curved glass entrance transitioning into a sheer white elevation and glazed upper crown. The 418-foot structure rises above a concrete flat-plate frame founded on Manhattan bedrock, while GACE Consulting Engineers devised a transfer at the third floor that opens the base for a double-height lobby and restaurant beneath the guestroom tower. Six full-floor residences eventually emerged at the building's summit with separate access and interiors by Pembrooke & Ives, extending the address from a hospitality base into private homes overlooking the East River, Chrysler Building and United Nations district. The result is a hotel whose tall, compressed architecture mirrors Midtown East itself, stacking hospitality and private residential space above a block shaped by diplomacy, corporate power and some of Manhattan's strongest postwar design.
What you should know about EVEN Hotel New York Midtown East.
EVEN Hotel New York Midtown East is best known for opening in December 2016 with 230 guestrooms as one of the formative Manhattan expressions of IHG's wellness-centered EVEN Hotels brand, placing accommodation across the hotel portion of a tower conceived around indoor and outdoor spaces for exercise, eating and gathering. The concept translated wellness directly into guestrooms through dedicated Training Zones for private exercise, while the wider EVEN system organized the stay around the brand principles Keep Active, Rest Easy, Eat Well and Accomplish More. Cork & Kale originally carried that philosophy into food through made-to-order smoothies, freshly prepared dishes and grab-and-go selections, connecting nutrition to the same behavioral structure that placed workouts inside bedrooms instead of limiting exercise to a separate fitness floor. The Athletic Studio developed the movement component at larger scale through Woodway treadmills, rowing machines and subsequent Peloton equipment, making physical activity an organizing feature of the property.
A distinctly local creative program now develops that wellness character through artwork by students from New York City's High School of Art and Design, bringing work by emerging artists into the property's visual environment. The outdoor terrace adds a second artistic register through a large-scale mural by Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra, whose internationally recognizable kaleidoscopic portraiture has turned walls across multiple continents into saturated geometric compositions. EVEN Kitchen & Bar represents the current evolution of the property's dining identity, while CocuSocial cooking classes extend the restaurant beyond service through chef-led sessions devoted to subjects including mozzarella and burrata, tapas, sushi and dumplings. Together, the High School of Art and Design program, Kobra mural and participatory culinary programming shift the hotel beyond EVEN's original exercise-and-nutrition formula, giving the Midtown East property a more specifically New York cultural character.
How to fold EVEN Hotel New York Midtown East into your trip.
EVEN Hotel New York Midtown East works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing modern architecture, landscape design and international cultural exchange through the unusually rich institutional corridor east of Grand Central.
Begin at Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice, where Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo wrapped offices around a soaring atrium garden designed by landscape architect Dan Kiley, combining Cor-Ten steel, Dakota granite and glass when the headquarters opened in 1967 before Gensler and Raymond Jungles completed a $205 million renewal in 2018. Continue to Japan Society, founded in 1907 and established at its permanent East 47th Street home in 1971 after president John D. Rockefeller 3rd donated the site and commissioned Japanese modernist Junzo Yoshimura, whose building became the first New York structure by a leading Japanese architect and incorporated indoor gardens, a reflecting pool, waterfall, theater, gallery and library. Conclude at United Nations Headquarters, where the postwar international complex grew from a multinational design collaboration directed by Wallace K. Harrison and involving architects including Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer, placing the Secretariat's glass slab and the General Assembly beside the East River as an architectural expression of the institution founded in 1945. The progression moves from Roche, Dinkeloo and Kiley's fusion of workplace and interior landscape through Yoshimura's architectural bridge between Japan and New York into Harrison, Niemeyer and Le Corbusier's international ensemble, revealing the concentration of postwar ideas surrounding EVEN Hotel New York Midtown East.
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