PRICE:
Frommer's Very Highly Recommended

This 1904 Beaux Arts hotel, formerly known as the Seville Hotel, was getting worn around the edges when it was rescued by architect David Rockwell and refurbished magnificently in 2005. The highlight of that $60-million renovation is the grand, sweeping lobby complete with a marble curving staircase and a cathedral-like high ceiling. While The Roger a few blocks up, also recently renovated, went for a cool, sleek, modern-tropical look, the Hotel Carlton has tried to recapture the majestic glory of the past blended with New Age nods like contemporary furnishings in the lobby along with a bubbling, two-story waterfall. Rooms are a generous size and retain that Beaux Arts motif with the addition of modern amenities like wireless Internet and iPod clock radios. The marble bathrooms offer plenty of counter space; some rooms have bathtubs while others just have showers. Off the lobby is the acclaimed bi-level restaurant Country where above the upstairs dining room, a stained-glass skylight dome that had been boarded up since World War II has been meticulously restored.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's New York City 2008, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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