The Best Western Bowery Hanbee Hotel is a tourist class hotel with a great lower Manhattan location bordering Chinatown, Little Italy, Nolita, SoHo and Tribeca. It doesn't get any more eclectic in terms of access to unique Manhattan neighborhoods! Th...
moreThe Best Western Bowery Hanbee Hotel is a tourist class hotel with a great lower Manhattan location bordering Chinatown, Little Italy, Nolita, SoHo and Tribeca. It doesn't get any more eclectic in terms of access to unique Manhattan neighborhoods! The area is home to millionaire SoHo loft owners and first generation Chinese immigrants. Mix in some of the fourth generation Italian families and the hipster population in Nolita, and you have a true 21st century melting pot. Within a five minute walk you will find an exciting mélange of sidewalk cafes, trendy boutiques, unique restaurants and hip nightspots.
The 100% non-smoking hotel is housed in a modern seven story building with 102 guest rooms, many of which overlook the streets of Chinatown. The property serves a complimentary continental breakfast daily. All rooms have hairdryers, iron and ironing board, coffeemakers, clock radios, telephones with voice mail and in-room safes. Handicap accessible rooms are available.
The hotel offers a complimentary workout facility, high speed Internet, and newspaper Monday through Friday. Please note the hotel is a non-smoking hotel.
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Chinatown Description
Best Western Bowery Hanbee Hotel is located in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan.
Concentrated below Canal Street and populated mostly by Cantonese speakers, the diversity of the new Chinatown reflects large-scale immigration from Fujian province and Taiwan, as well as an influx of Mandarin speakers from the interior provinces of China. In addition, some Vietnamese and a few Tibetans, Malaysians, and Cambodians have made this area in Lower Manhattan home in recent years. As much of what nominally was Little Italy was taken over by fruit and vegetable wholesalers, small restaurants, printing shops, and other businesses catering to the community, more apartment-building conversions and turnovers occurred. Even the stodgy restaurant supply stores and lighting showrooms on the Bowery are being transformed as change brings a fresh new face to some of lower Manhattan’s most eclectic real estate.
A shopper and food lover's mecca, you can find nearly anything on Canal Street, from stereo equipment to fresh fish to jewelry to industrial art supplies. It is truly one of America’s most dizzying arrays of products available on one street. Head to one of the small bakeries for a snack, a Vietnamese restaurant for a large bowl of beef soup noodles, a large dim sum restaurant for a great variety of dishes, or a seafood place for great right-from-the-tank fish. Then enjoy some of the great flavors at the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory. Also visit the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, which offers fascinating exhibits that chronicle the history of this community. We've got an entire walking tour of Canal Street and Chinatown that has many more terrific highlights.
You'll find terrific new hotels awaiting you in Chinatown as well, some located on the fringes of the adjacent, swankier neighborhood of SoHo. There's the well-known Holiday Inn Manhattan Downtown/SoHo on Lafayette Street just above Canal Street, the Hotel Azure just below Canal, and the Best Western Bowery Hanbee nearby on Grand Street.
In addition to the explosive growth of Manhattan's Chinatown, largely thanks to the tremendous economic expansion of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, two rival Chinatowns, one in Brooklyn, the other in Queens, have emerged. You can hitch a ride out to those Chinatowns on one of the many shuttle vans that go for $1-$2 from a number of street corners near the Manhattan Bridge.