Hotel on Rivington is a luxury boutique hotel located on Manhattan’s trendy Lower East Side. Hotel on Rivington rises 21 stories into the sky, cutting a stunning glass shape into Manhattan’s skyline. The Lower East Side is known for its hip, artistic population, and the hotel does this exciting neighborhood plenty of justice in that department. Maintaining the neighborhood’s cultural diversity (it was one immigrant central; Jewish immigrants especially came here when they first arrived from Ellis Island) is important to all in the area, including Hotel on Rivington. This full service hotel boasts 360 degree city views and large guest rooms with glassed-in bathrooms. The hotel’s lobby and lounge are private; accessible only to guests, giving the entire hotel an elite V.I.P. feel. Hotel on Rivington boasts a first floor restaurant and lounge that lives in a 21 foot high striking glass atrium.

Features and Amenities

Guest rooms at the Hotel on Rivington offer amazing sky and city views of the river and beyond. You’ll find that your room boasts floor to ceiling glass walls; many of which boast a balcony. Interiors have been furnished by acclaimed Parisian designed India Mahdavi, who has thoughtfully created rooms that are luxurious and elegant, modern and comfortable. You’ll find velvet sofas and chairs, Frette linens and Temper-Pedic mattresses, as well as flat screen TVs, Italian Bisazza tile floors in the glassed-in bathrooms, steam rain showers and soaking tubs.

Amenities at Hotel on Rivington are plentiful and include rooms that are 30% larger than that of the average Manhattan hotel room, glass shower walls to outside and openable windows, 2-person Japanese soaking tubs, a state of the art fitness center with cardio and weight training equipment, oversized closets for those taking an extended stay, continental breakfast served each morning, large under-the-counter refrigerators with gourmet snacks and full bottle wine selections, DVD library available for use, bath amenities by Ren of London, linens and robes by Frette, iPod speaker systems, flat screen TVs and more. The hotel has a few pet friendly floors for those who travel with their four-footed friends. The hotel also offers same day dry cleaning and laundry services, a 24-hour concierge desk, and town car service.

Hotel on Rivington also boasts Thor, a lounge and nightclub, the Sunset Lounge, which is their penthouse rooftop deck, the CV Club, which is a bar/club/lounge, and the Platinum Salon, a fashion forward beauty salon that also has a location in Chelsea.

Location

The Hotel on Rivington is located on Rivington Street between Essex and Ludlow Streets. This giant glass tower sits directly beside a pre-war building (most likely a tenement house in the past). This relationship perfectly symbolizes the Lower East Side, which has undergone some serious gentrification and rehabilitation in the past ten years. Formerly an immigrant neighborhood (many still live there), the Lower East Side has been infiltrated by swanky hotels such as this one, as well as bars, clubs and vintage clothing boutiques. These days, it’s an “it” neighborhood – expensive condominiums sit beside crumbling six floor walkups.

Many gravitate toward the Lower East Side for this very juxtaposition – they love that they can get luxury living in a neighborhood that still feels relatively untouched by time. Those who visit New York for the first time may be surprised to find such a luxury hotel situated in a neighborhood like the Lower East Side, which has nitty and gritty down pat. Dark tenement buildings, decades-old bodegas, cheap perfume shops and fabric stores sit beside hip nightclubs owned by the likes of rapper Jay-Z. If you’re looking for the real New York, where some things are luxurious and others are the opposite, look no further than the Lower East Side. That being said, transportation from the LES isn’t exactly easy. The Hotel on Rivington is located close to the J, M and Z trains – none of which are very helpful. However, taxis in New York are plentiful – and you can always get out and explore the city the way the natives do – by foot! While staying at the Hotel on Rivington, don’t forget to visit Katz’s Delicatessen. This landmark has been a staple of the Lower East Side food scene for decade upon decade. Come for the pickles, stay for the sandwiches. That is, if you can finish one.