#3 in Top 20 New York for Business · ★★★★★
The Pierre, A Taj Hotel
Central Park-facing executive floors, Two E Bar tea, Hindi greeting at the door.
Central Park-facing executive floors, Two E Bar tea, Hindi greeting at the door.
"Central Park-facing executive floors, Two E Bar tea, Hindi greeting at the door."
The Pierre opened in 1930 on the corner of 61st Street and Fifth Avenue, with a direct view across Central Park. It has been part of the Taj Hotels group since 2005, Indian ownership operating an American palace hotel, and the result is the most-distinctive service standard in Manhattan luxury. Where that ownership shows is in the service texture, the anticipatory, unhurried attention Taj is known for, alongside a kitchen fluent in vegetarian and Indian-influenced menus on request. One hundred and eighty-nine rooms and suites, the upper tier with Park-view balconies. The Presidential Suite, the corner suite on the 39th floor with a 270-degree wraparound view of the park, is one of the great hotel rooms in the world. Two E Bar (the tea lounge) is the most-recommended afternoon-meeting room in midtown. The Pierre is the right pick for the business trip where the client is South-Asian-origin (the cultural fit is genuine and useful), where the meeting is a long lunch in the lobby (Two E is the room), or where the trip is positioned as old-money rather than new-economy.
Park View Junior Suite (the entry-level Central-Park-facing room) or Presidential Suite for the multi-bedroom flagship.
Two E Bar's afternoon tea (3pm to 5pm) doubles as a discreet meeting spot; the corner window table is reservation-only and books out. The hotel's Taj-group ownership makes it the natural Manhattan choice for India-origin clients; the concierge can arrange a discreet vegetarian-friendly menu for any meeting.
The Pierre, A Taj 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, Fifth 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. Expect the best-positioned suites to go early; in the busy season the lead time is 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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