#12 in Top 20 New York for Business · ★★★★★
The Times Square EDITION
Studio 54-vibe lobby, Ian Schrager's central pick — the creative-industry deal hotel.
Studio 54-vibe lobby, Ian Schrager's central pick — the creative-industry deal hotel.
"Studio 54-vibe lobby, Ian Schrager's central pick — the creative-industry deal hotel."
The Times Square EDITION opened in 2019 in the heart of Times Square at the corner of 47th Street and Seventh Avenue. Ian Schrager — the Studio 54 co-founder who has been redefining hotel-as-scene for forty years — designed the property as the central-Manhattan creative-industries meeting hotel. Four hundred and fifty-two rooms across forty-two floors, the upper tier with skyline views and balcony product. The asset is the public-space programming — Paradise Club (the rooftop entertainment venue) hosts performances and DJ residencies, the Outdoor Gardens (the eighth-floor terrace) is one of the largest hotel gardens in midtown, and the lobby has the Ian-Schrager-signature theatrical staging. The Times Square EDITION is the right pick for the business trip in the creative industries — fashion week base, the music-industry deal, the advertising-agency client meeting, the broadcast/Broadway client. It is not the right pick for the law-firm or private-banker client; for those clusters, choose the Mark or St. Regis.
Times Square Loft Suite or Penthouse for the upper-floor option.
Paradise Club is the after-meeting venue for music-industry and creative-industries clients — book a 9pm show on day two. The Outdoor Gardens 8th-floor terrace at 5pm is the working after-meeting space; the corner banquette has the best skyline orientation.
The Times Square EDITION sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in New York for Business list. It scored an aggregate 9.4/10 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 Times Square 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.