top 5 downtown new york Hotels?

Question

Either from personal experiance or a recomendation from friends etc?

Contempory and modern hotels!
Good deals although 4* +

Answer 1

The Ritz Carlton, Battery Park is the best of downtown, then The Mercer, Soho Grand and the Millennium.

Answer 2

Grand Hyatt New York
Renaissance Meadowlands Hotel
Hyatt Regency Jersey City on the Hudson
Renaissance New York Times Square Hotel
The Ritz-Carlton New York Battery Park
The Ritz-Carlton New York Central Park
Best Western Fairfield Executive Inn
Best Western Newark Airport West
Best Western Convention Center Hotel
Courtyard By Marriott Newark Liberty International Airport
Courtyard By Marriott Newark Elizabeth
Best Western Kennedy Airport
Best Western President Hotel
Best Western Queens Court Hotel
Residence Inn By Marriott Elizabeth-Newark Liberty International Airport

Answer 3

HOTEL CHELSEA!!!!!!!!

"A Rest Stop for Rare Individuals"

The Hotel Chelsea is a well-known residence for artists, musicians, and writers in the neighborhood of Chelsea in Manhattan, New York City. The building is located on 23rd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues.

The hotel welcomes guests, but is primarily known for its long-term residents, past and present. The hotel has always been a center of artistic and bohemian activity and it houses artwork created by many of the artists who have visited. The hotel was the first building to be listed by New York City as a cultural preservation site and historic building of note.

It is perhaps best-known as the hotel where Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols may have stabbed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen to death on October 12, 1978.

People who live/have lived at the Hotel Chelsea:
Mark Twain, O. Henry, Herbert Huncke, Dylan Thomas, Arthur C. Clarke, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Leonard Cohen, Arthur Miller, Quentin Crisp, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Jack Gantos, Brendan Behan, Simone de Beauvoir, Robert Oppenheimer, Jean-Paul Sartre, Bill Landis, Michelle Clifford and Thomas Wolfe. Charles R. Jackson, Stanley Kubrick, Shirley Clarke, Mitch Hedberg, Miloš Forman, Lillie Langtry, Ethan Hawke, Dennis Hopper, Uma Thurman, Jane Fonda and Gaby Hoffmann, Patti Smith, Virgil Thomson, Dee Dee Ramone of The Ramones, Henri Chopin, John Cale, Édith Piaf, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Sid Vicious, Ryan Adams, Jobriath, Rufus Wainwright, Leonard Cohen, Anthony Kiedis, Brett Whiteley, Christo, Arman, Richard Bernstein, Ralph Gibson, Robert Mapplethorpe, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Robert Crumb, Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Vali Myers, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Viva, Larry Rivers.Ultra Violet, Mary Woronov, Holly Woodlawn, Edie Sedgwick, Andrea Feldman, Nico, Paul America, Brigid Berlin, and explorer Ruth Harkness.

Answer 4

Soho Grand