#2 in Top 20 New York for Business · ★★★★★
The Mark Hotel
Upper East Side, private-residence feel, fashion-week base and Met Gala launchpad.
Upper East Side, private-residence feel, fashion-week base and Met Gala launchpad.
"Upper East Side, private-residence feel, fashion-week base and Met Gala launchpad."
The Mark sits on the Upper East Side at 77th and Madison, two blocks from the Met and one block from the East 76th cross-town that connects to Park Avenue's law-firm cluster. Izak Senbahar bought the property in 2009, Jacques Grange redesigned every room, and the result is the most-private of the Manhattan luxury hotels, the Mark does not advertise, does not appear in best-of lists if it can avoid it, and does not have an Instagram presence. It has 106 rooms and 47 suites, the upper tier with multiple bedrooms and full kitchens. The Mark Penthouse (more than 10,000 square feet, five bedrooms, around $75,000 a night) is the largest hotel suite in the US and the property's flagship. The Mark Restaurant by Jean-Georges Vongerichten is the de facto business breakfast room for Madison Avenue private bankers, and Frédéric Fekkai's salon is in-house. The Mark is the right pick for a multi-day business trip where the client is on Park Avenue and the suite doubles as the meeting room; the block from Madison to Park is a five-minute walk, so the location is the real asset. The honest caveat: this is residential Upper East Side, not Midtown, so if your meetings are downtown or in the financial district the commute works against you.
Mark Suite (one-bedroom flagship) or Mark Premier Suite. For multi-day or family-and-business trips, the Mark Penthouse.
The Mark Restaurant breakfast at 7am is the room for Park Avenue private-banker meetings, book the corner banquette. The Madison-Avenue tailor cluster (Brioni, Loro Piana, Brunello Cucinelli) is a one-block walk; the concierge can arrange a same-day fitting for jacket alterations.
The Mark Hotel 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 Upper East Side, Madison Avenue and adjacent. For a different city entirely, see the related lists below.
Have firm dates? Our editor's advice is to book roughly twelve weeks in advance. The best suites with the right view orientation go first, and inventory for the popular months is quoted in months, not weeks. Top-category rooms with private pools or terraces, the reason this hotel ranks here, are routinely the first gone.
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