#4 in Top 20 New York for Business · ★★★★★
The St. Regis New York
Astor lineage, butler service for executives, King Cole Bar for the after-meeting Bloody Mary.
Astor lineage, butler service for executives, King Cole Bar for the after-meeting Bloody Mary.
"Astor lineage, butler service for executives, King Cole Bar for the after-meeting Bloody Mary."
John Jacob Astor IV opened the St. Regis in 1904 and the brand's flagship has remained on this corner of 55th Street and Fifth Avenue for 120 years. Two hundred and thirty-eight rooms and suites, every one with the St. Regis butler service — a 24-hour per-floor butler who unpacks luggage on arrival, presses suits without asking, runs the morning espresso and the evening cocktail, and operates as the de-facto executive assistant for the duration of the trip. King Cole Bar — the maxfield-Parrish-muralled lounge off the lobby — is the hotel's working asset for after-meeting drinks. The room invented the Bloody Mary in 1934 and continues to serve the original recipe. Astor Court (the lobby tea room) is the morning meeting space. The Presidential Suite is the building's two-bedroom corner unit on the 17th floor. St. Regis is the right pick for the business trip where the client is a multi-day relationship that benefits from named butler service — the butler remembers your suit-pressing schedule, your morning coffee preference, and the time of your standing 7am call, across multiple visits.
Astor Suite (one-bedroom flagship) or Presidential Suite for the corner two-bedroom layout.
Use the butler — fully. Pre-arrange every detail (suit pressing, espresso schedule, evening cocktail, morning newspaper) on arrival. King Cole Bar at 5.30pm is the after-meeting room; pre-book the corner table near the mural.
The St. Regis New York sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in New York for Business list. It scored an aggregate 9.8/10 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 Midtown East, 55th and Fifth 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.