This boutique Manhattan hotel leads the resurgence of the landmark old New York neighborhood, the Lower East Side.
The hotel is located on cobblestone streets once occupied by pushcart vendors, pickle packers, butchers, and bakers. Now New York's ... more
This boutique Manhattan hotel leads the resurgence of the landmark old New York neighborhood, the Lower East Side.
The hotel is located on cobblestone streets once occupied by pushcart vendors, pickle packers, butchers, and bakers. Now New York's historic past has come to life in the authentic yet modern and comfortable neighborhood hotel.
The hotel occupies a recently-restored building, and provides a luxurious yet authentic atmosphere of what old New York once was in the heydays of Benny Goodman, Groucho Marx, and Frank Sinatra. The façade, woodwork and historical memorabilia, along with the “famous” guest rooms and suites will bring you back to times past.
Deluxe Guest Rooms
Each of the 16 deluxe rooms provide a comfortable and relaxing environment that includes queen beds, televisions, mini-fridges and internet access. Each of the 16 guest rooms and six suites are named for celebrities of the era so be sure to request your host from choices such as Jimmy Durante, Sophie Tucker, James Cagney, Milton Berle or Sid Caesar.
Premier Suites
Each of the six suites includes spacious floor space, furnishings, and a parlor-like set up plus a wet bar and balconies that ove... more
This boutique Manhattan hotel leads the resurgence of the landmark old New York neighborhood, the Lower East Side.
The hotel is located on cobblestone streets once occupied by pushcart vendors, pickle packers, butchers, and bakers. Now New York's historic past has come to life in the authentic yet modern and comfortable neighborhood hotel.
The hotel occupies a recently-restored building, and provides a luxurious yet authentic atmosphere of what old New York once was in the heydays of Benny Goodman, Groucho Marx, and Frank Sinatra. The façade, woodwork and historical memorabilia, along with the “famous” guest rooms and suites will bring you back to times past.
Deluxe Guest Rooms
Each of the 16 deluxe rooms provide a comfortable and relaxing environment that includes queen beds, televisions, mini-fridges and internet access. Each of the 16 guest rooms and six suites are named for celebrities of the era so be sure to request your host from choices such as Jimmy Durante, Sophie Tucker, James Cagney, Milton Berle or Sid Caesar.
Premier Suites
Each of the six suites includes spacious floor space, furnishings, and a parlor-like set up plus a wet bar and balconies that overlook breathtaking views of the Williamsburg Bridge, Old Orchard Street and most of the Lower East Side. Be entertained by one of the four notables when staying in the Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Mickey Katz, or Molly Picon, Marx Brothers and Fanny Brice suites!
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Lower East Side Description
Blue Moon Boutique Hotel is located in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan.
While this could apply to most neighborhoods in this guide, the Lower East Side might be the best example yet of an area that was once down-at-the-heels, full of recent immigrants striving towards the American dream and long-time residents just trying to make ends meet, and is now as expensive as anywhere else in Manhattan, filled to the gills on weekends with the bridge-and-tunnel crowd looking to eat fancy and party hard.
The Lower East Side is boxed in between Alphabet City and Chinatown and between Little Italy, Nolita, and the East Rive, running roughing south from Delancey Street to FDR Drive and from the East River west to Allen Street. In the last 150 years, the Lower East Side has been populated by successive waves of lower-income German, Irish, and Jewish immigrants, and has seen extensive immigration of Chinese and Latin populations in recent decades. Although the well-known Tenement Museum on Orchard Street chronicles the historically difficult, even squalid, conditions in the neighborhood’s tenements, rents have risen to four, six, even eight times what they were just five years ago. Today, Ludlow and Orchard Streets reflect the newest wave of immigrants: the dot-com and downtown crowd. In fact, an unbelievable array of new boutiques, restaurants, stores, fabulous bars and music clubs compete with the area’s long-established tailors, fabric dealers, button wholesalers, religious artifact suppliers, pickle vendors, and Kosher wine distributors.
The neighborhood’s crowded parks and outdoor recreation areas reflect the pastiche of New York’s ethnically diverse groups, especially in summer, and a dizzying array of music from around the world can be heard literally on every corner. Take a stroll around to see some of the city’s oldest synagogues, famous delicatessens, shopping streets, and hang out with the hippest crowds.
Art enthusiasts will be interested to know that the mother lode of art galleries in New York's Chelsea neighborhood has seen tectonic shifts, albeit slowly, to the Lower East Side, with trendy smaller new galleries popping up here and there. Many attribute this gallery migration to the Lower East Side to the presence of the New Museum of Contemporary Art on the Bowery, the first art museum ever constructed from the ground up in this neighborhood.
Nightlife on the Lower East Side, especially on the weekends, is always rocking, with almost as many people cruising its narrow streets as there are inside its numerous bars, restaurants and live music venues. Up and coming alternative rock bands play at Bowery Ballroom on Delancey Street and Mercury Lounge on East Houston Street, while lesser known acts perform at smaller venues, such as the performance space in Pianos and the Living Room on Ludlow Street, or by booking Arlene's Grocery on Stanton Street.
If you're looking to grab a bite to eat before concert-hoping from venue to venue, try Apizz, which features great Southern Italian cuisine and Prune, which is renowned for its fine American dining.
The Lower East Side is definitely moving upwardly in its hotel and real estate offerings. The growth of this neighborhood has brought several new luxury boutique hotels, including Hotel On Rivington and the deluxe boutique Blue Moon Hotel on Orchard Street.
