Inside the hotel's lush lobby, there are three beautiful and helpful desk agents. It sounds like Sean MacPherson is continuing with his music-free lobby feel (the Maritime) - but it was awkwardly quiet and dark in there, and the guests sitting in the lobby couldn't help to hear all the business going on at the front desk.

The design in the guest rooms is simply amazing - it's clean, crisp and timeless. It feels like it could be 100 years old, and as soon as the fresh paint smell wears off, it will even more. It's hard to believe the building is so new - even the elevators are tiny - and they've done an excellent job of furnishing with vintage, and vintage-looking rugs and mirrors. I think the Bowery's rooms will age better than any of the newer hip hotels.

The best parts are the floor-to-ceiling windows that offer better views than even the Hotel on Rivington(seriously), huge terraces big enough for a good-sized party, and an interesting bathroom design that let's you open up the wall over the soaking tubs to look out into the bed room - and out over the city.

Back downstairs, the lobby bar is very small (30 person capacity), but these guys have B Bar across the street, and a beautiful restaurant space that is still under construction, and word on the street is that Serge Becker (La Esquina) is going to manage a hip restaurant there.

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