#15 in Top 20 New York for Business · ★★★★★
Crosby Street Hotel
SoHo creative-industry HQ — the design-led drawing-room boutique.
SoHo creative-industry HQ — the design-led drawing-room boutique.
"SoHo creative-industry HQ — the design-led drawing-room boutique."
Crosby Street Hotel is the Firmdale group's first North American property — Tim and Kit Kemp's London-based luxury-boutique brand opened the Manhattan flagship in 2009. Eighty-six rooms (small count by Manhattan standards) on a quiet SoHo block, designed by Kit Kemp in her signature contemporary-British-eclectic mode. The hotel's working asset is the drawing-room suite product — every room has a distinct design and a serious sitting area, and three of the public rooms (the Drawing Room, the Library, the Crosby Bar) function as bookable meeting spaces. Firmdale's reputation in the creative industries is genuine — the property is the unofficial New York fashion-week base for London-based editors, the working hotel for British-heritage brands, and the meeting space for creative-industries clients across art, fashion, and design. Crosby Street is the right pick for the business trip where the client is in the creative industries and the meeting is best held in a private sitting room rather than a hotel-room. The neighbourhood (between SoHo and NoLita) is the right working district for the New York creative class.
Crosby Suite (the flagship one-bedroom) or Loft Suite for the duplex layout.
Book the Drawing Room (lobby) at 11am for a client meeting — the room is bookable and produces a more-relaxed setting than a hotel-room. The Crosby Bar at 6pm is the after-meeting room; the corner banquette has the most-photographed Kit Kemp interior in the building.
Crosby Street Hotel sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in New York for Business list. It scored an aggregate 9.6/10 across the three editorial criteria — competitive against the field but, on business-specific factors, the angle above is what earned its rank. For the alternatives in the same New York neighbourhood, see SoHo and adjacent. For a different city entirely, see the related lists below.
If you have already chosen the dates, our editor recommends booking the room twelve weeks ahead. The best suites with the right view orientation go first, and inventory for the popular months is quoted in months, not weeks. Suite-level rooms with private plunge pools or terraces — the ones that earn this rank — are typically the first to sell out.