Hotel Coverage: Hyatt 48Lex
"Breaking Amish" Cast Bewildered by Hyatt 48 Lex
This room at the Hyatt 48 Lex is a standard set-up to some, a perplexing puzzle to others. TLC’s new series Breaking Amish follows Rebecca a 20-year old Amish girl from Punxsutawney, PA and four other young Amish and Mennonites who have left their homes to live together in...
September 19, 2012
2nd Annual New York Hotel Week Now On Sale
Ok, it’s clear that advanced planning can be a good thing in the hotel world when it comes to new properties. It can be important when you’ve got plans to stay at a New York City hotel where rates can be outrageously high. Sure, we tout the wonderfulness of last-minute...
September 13, 2012
The Best Part About Glamping At A Penthouse In NYC Might Be The Bathroom
One thing Manhattan hotel terraces tend not to be is big. NYC is simply short on space, and hotels have to be very efficient with how they apportion what precious terrace and rooftop space they have. So upon visiting one of the city's latest Suite Glamping spots at a penthouse...
June 26, 2012
Good Luck Getting Any Work Done At Your New Office Inside Hyatt 48Lex
How much would we love it if the lobby at Hyatt 48Lex was our office? A lot. But how much work would we actually be getting done? Debatable. The hotel has just launched a new members-only club for non-guests looking to use the hotel as a temporary office. Remind you...
June 01, 2012
Where To Eat Pancakes in Hotels For National Pancake Day
Yup, today is National Pancake Day—always kinda sneaks up on ya, doesn't it? In an effort to raise awareness for Children's Miracle hospitals, IHOP is offering a free short stack to every customer that walks into the restaurant today. Which is awesome. But, at the same time, it's IHOP, and...
February 28, 2012
Now You Can Try Stinky Kombucha On Tap At Hyatt 48Lex
What is kombucha, you ask? It's that fermented, sparkling, slightly vinegar-y drink that everyone's obsessed with lately (brands like Synergy and Wonder Drink are the ones most commonly found in stores). Because it's made with live cultures, the health benefits—digestion, immune system boost, energy boost—are supposedly out of this world....
January 19, 2012
3 Reasons To Snag A Room For Hotel Week
We don't know about you, but the post-holiday void has left us in need of a little diversion, so we're just going to play along with all this Hotel Week business—however much it feels like a bootleg version of New York's more established Restaurant Week. Here to bolster a select...
January 06, 2012
Where Will You Be Staying During New York's First-Ever 'Hotel Week?'
That's right. Most of you have probably heard of Restuarant Week, a promotional period that falls twice a year (winter and summer) in New York City, giving restaurants a chance to make up prix-fixe menus and welcome in a whole new set of customers. Well, now hotels are starting to...
December 23, 2011
The 11 Best Hotels in NYC: Fall 2011
This year has proven quite eventful on the NYC hotel front (then again, when hasn't it?). Hotels opened. Hotels closed. Hotels wore itsy bitsy tuxedo short shorts. And now, it is time to take stock of the hottest hotels on the NYC scene. As with all our reviews, commentaries, and...
November 02, 2011
Which Hotel Chef Is Making Jelly Doughnut Pancakes?
Few things excite us more than a delicious hotel breakfast. Sometimes, we wish we could just spend the whole day inside a swanky brasserie, gazing out the window, eating omelets and sipping tea. Chef Franklin Becker's new joint Lexington Brass, located inside Hyatt 48Lex, might be just the place for...
October 13, 2011
What Is Open House New York?
Next weekend, New York will "open up" over two hundred iconic buildings for tour groups and panel discussions during an architecture and design festival known as Open House New York. Now in its ninth year, the mayor-approved event picks out buildings (churches, mansions) and sites (waterfront parks, cemeteries) that range...
October 11, 2011
Actually, the President of Sierra Leone Needed Only Two Hotel Floors, Not Three
President Ernest Bai Koroma, center When we learned the particular hotel used by the President of Sierra Leone during the United Nations General Assembly in NYC, of course, we figured it was worth sharing. And even more so when we found out that the four-year official had supposedly taken up...
October 10, 2011
Flyin' High Inside a Penthouse At 48Lex
Remember when we showed you a snapshot of a Hyatt 48Lex conference room that had been converted into a makeshift clothing boutique? Well, the real reason we were there that day was to tour one of the Hyatt's 23rd-floor penthouse suites. And boy, are they looking good. Space is not...
October 07, 2011
At Hyatt 48Lex, They Whistle While They Work
Sometimes they're chic. Sometimes they reflect the local vibe. Sometimes they're super sexed-up. But in the hands of Hyatt 48Lex, hotel uniforms are a little like fast-food: served up quick, hot, and made-to-order. We were touring the newly-opened hotel (and President of Sierra Leone's pied-à-terre), when we happened to pass...
September 29, 2011
Taxi Drivers Can't Stand The UNGA, But Hotels Kinda Like 'Em
The best way for NYC hotels to pull themselves out of the summer slow period is a major event or convention. The UNGA makes them very happy. The UNGA does not, however, make cab drivers happy. The WSJ ran a piece on Tuesday which gave a voice to the frustrated...
September 29, 2011
Stash Your Wine In Style At Hyatt 48Lex
Beverages seem to be a theme over at the newly-opened Hyatt 48Lex. If guests aren't downstairs slurping freshly brewed coffee (or tea!) at Lexicon Lounge, they can raid the wine minibar (stocked with ten mini bottles), which conveniently folds into the rest of the cabinet. Out of sight, out...
September 01, 2011
Guess The $15,000 Hotel Coffeemaker Revealed!
We took a whirlwind tour through the newly-operational (well, almost operational) Hyatt 48Lex on Thursday morning. Amidst construction workers, multiple staff trainings, and other private tours, we got to peek the hotel's first-floor restaurant, Lexington Brass, the second-floor lounge area, Lexicon Lounge (above), and several of the rooms. What struck...
August 29, 2011
Hyatt48Lex is Not Gonna Open This Month, Sending Guests to the Grand Hyatt Instead
Perhaps the forthcoming Hyatt 48Lex was a little too eager with its opening date. After first announcing that it would open in August, the hotel decided to one-up itself and take reservations for July 18 instead. We got all excited thinking we could stay inside a hotel room with...
July 06, 2011
Hyatt 48Lex and Its In-Room Dishwashers are Now Taking Rezzies for July 18
It looks like Hyatt's newest hotel in NYC, the unoriginally named Hyatt 48Lex, will be opening even earlier than August. And you better pack your finest china! (Ok, not really)A tipster tells us the hotel is now taking reservations for July 18 and later. We found rates that night...
May 13, 2011
Hyatt 48Lex Will Open in August at $379 a Night
That was fast. Merely a month after learning that the oddly-named Hyatt 48Lex would be opening in April, a Hyatt tipster tells us the date has already been pushed back again to August 1. Unlike when we checked last month, the hotel now has a proper website (but not...
March 08, 2011
First Photos of the Rooms at New York's Hyatt 48Lex
Ladies and gentlemen, here are the first photos of the rooms at the Hyatt 48Lex, the under-the-radar, 116-room Hyatt that's going up in Midtown East and scheduled to open sometime this year. Not bad! We're looking at leather headboards, platform beds, noise-absorbing wall treatments and bedside iPhone docks. In...
February 18, 2011
Hyatt 48Lex Now Aiming for April 2011 Opening
Another Monday, another bit of juicy New York hotel opening gossip! This week, we're zeroing in on the Hyatt 48Lex, the mysterious, 116-room hotel that—last we heard from the company anyway—was set to open "early next year," meaning 2011. Now, notes an anonymous tipster, it's popped up on Hyatt's...
February 07, 2011
A New Hyatt Hotel Will Open at 48th and Lex But What Kind of Hyatt Will It Be?
While a Park Hyatt is rising over Central Park, it looks like another Hyatt Hotel will be happening at 48th and Lexington, just blocks away from the Grand Hyatt at Grand Central Station. We spied this job listing for a general manager for "Hyatt48Lex" but there is still no...
September 16, 2010
What Hotel Is Going Up at 48th and Lex in Manhattan?
Welcome to the corner of 48th Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan—and our latest burning question. What is this hotel? And when will it open? When little is released about a new property, especially one in New York City, our interest is piqued. And so it is with this...
February 09, 2010
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