In the Big Apple, there's a hotel for everyone. Art lovers and fun seekers should take a look at the Gansevoort Meatpacking NYC says Rosie Paterson. When the Gansevoort first opened — all 15 floors of it — in 2004, New York’s Meatpacking District was in a state of flux.
It had, at one time, existed as a, you guessed it, place for processing and packing up meat. It was heavily industrialised; home to more than 250 slaughterhouses; close to the infamous High Line, a raised railway track for transporting goods through Manhattan, now a public, linear park. Fast-forward through a half century period of decline beginning in the 1950s, to the early 2000’s and gentrification was starting to tighten its dandy grip.
High-end boutiques moved in and an Apple Store opened — but it was the Gansevoort which really helped to cement Meatpacking as one of New York’s most fashionable neighbourhoods. Never one to rest on its laurels, it emerged from the Pandemic with an entirely fresh new look. The Gansevoort isn’t a small hotel — there are more than 180 rooms — but then, what in New York actually is small? Every single room and suite was refurbished during the hotel’s grand relaunch and the colour palette is very much blue and grey.
Thankfully, the walnut headboards stop it all looking too corporate and the overall sleek and simple design choices make the rooms a calming place to come back to after a day braving The Big Apple. Juliet balconies typically come as standard, but.
