Hotel
The Plaza
Opened in 1907 at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Central Park South, the Fairmont-managed Plaza is one of New York's most storied grand hotels.
A 175-room Williamsburg hotel near the waterfront, with Manhattan views, a rooftop Israeli grill and a busy lobby café-bar.
Good to know
The Hoxton brings its sociable lobby-first formula to Williamsburg, with 175 rooms in a building near the Williamsburg Bridge and the East River waterfront. Rooms are cosy rather than spacious, with brass details and modern bathrooms, and you can request a Manhattan view.
The food and drink is a big draw: Laser Wolf, chef Michael Solomonov's Israeli grill house, occupies the rooftop terrace, K'Far serves all day in the lobby, and Jaffa is a cocktail and raw bar on the mezzanine. Free live jazz plays in the lobby on Saturday evenings. Bedford Avenue's shops and bars are a short walk away.
Reviewed by Lifestylemetro · Details checked October 23, 2026
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Yes — free, fast Wi-Fi throughout the hotel.
Café
A Viennese-style café inside the Neue Galerie on Museum Mile, serving Austrian pastries, coffee and dishes amid period furnishings.
Tour operator
A long-running sightseeing cruise company sailing from Pier 83 on West 42nd Street, with full-island, half-island and evening harbour tours.
Restaurant
A Lower East Side institution since 1888, famous for hand-carved pastrami on rye, corned beef and its role in When Harry Met Sally.
Attraction
The Met on Fifth Avenue is one of the world's great encyclopaedic art museums, spanning five thousand years of art from every corner of the globe.