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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 816 hotels

Best hotels in New York City

The 10 most notable hotels in New York City, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.

  1. 1

    Holiday Inn Express New York City Times Square

    343 W 39th St

    234 m from 42nd Street, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.128, percentile 100 of 816

  2. 2

    EVEN Hotel

    321 W 35th St

    142 m from 34th Street – Penn Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.128, percentile 99.88 of 816

  3. 3

    Best Western Brooklyn-Coney Island Inn

    2632 W 13th St

    609 m from Bay 50th Street, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.128, percentile 99.75 of 816

  4. 4

    NH Collection New York Madison Avenue

    22 E 38th St

    369 m from Grand Central, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.128, percentile 99.63 of 816

  5. 5

    The Hotel Elysee

    60 E 54th St

    205 m from Fifth Avenue / 53rd Street, metro

    The Hotel Elysee
    Photo Jim.henderson · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.128, percentile 99.51 of 816

  6. 6

    Courtyard by Marriott Montvale

    100 Chestnut Ridge Rd

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.128, percentile 99.39 of 816

  7. 7

    The Redford Hotel

    136 Ludlow St

    155 m from Rivington Street, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.128, percentile 99.26 of 816

  8. 8

    Riu Plaza New York Times Square Hotel

    305 W 46th St

    299 m from 50th Street, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.128, percentile 99.14 of 816

  9. 9

    (The Mercer)

    147 Mercer St

    99 m from Prince Street, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.128, percentile 99.02 of 816

  10. 10

    Courtyard by Marriott Long Island City/New York Manhattan View

    29-15 Queens Plaza N

    132 m from Queens Plaza station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.127, percentile 98.9 of 816

How this list is made

Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:

attestation by independent providers
+0.35
record completeness (website, phone, address)
+0.25
Overture existence confidence
+0.20
Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
+0.40
brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
−0.15
same-name chain collision
−0.30

Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.

No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste

Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.

The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.

Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.

Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.

Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).