Mr. Harper shares notable luxury travel news in this monthly piece, like the anticipated opening of The Whitby Hotel and new rooftop suites at Alvear Palace.
A video of our suite at the Baccarat Hotel in Midtown Manhattan as reviewed in the June 2015 issue of the Hideaway Report.
Of course, it always helps to have snow. At the holiday season, New York is sure to provide glitter and excitement, but Central Park needs to be covered with a pristine white quilt for the magic to be fully realized.
Just as this issue was about to be posted to our website -- and some days after the Hideaway Report newsletter had been printed -- Hurricane Sandy spiraled in from the Atlantic and caused mayhem in Lower Manhattan.
Contemplating my recent trip, I pondered where to stay and decided to try the new Trump SoHo, which opened in 2010. This choice was partly motivated by recent experiences at two other Trump properties, in Chicago and Panama City, both of which exceeded my expectations.
Thanks to waves of immigrants, New York has always been a center of great Italian food -- full of charming, if not particularly innovative, establishments where traditional fare reigns. But until the mid-1980s, the really upscale New York restaurants were invariably French or continental. That began to change when the young Danny Meyer, who has since become one of the most inventive restaurateurs the city has ever seen ...
I have long recommended the lovely Hotel Plaza Athenee. I decided to make an incognito inspection on a recent trip to New York.
Sequestered in a quiet corner of Grand Central Terminal, the Campbell Apartment is a wonderful glimpse of old New York.
On a frigid December evening in Manhattan, we strolled in to the warm confines of Cafe Carlyle to enjoy a Monday night institution, Woody Allen and the Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band.
More of Jason Hawkes' remarkable aerial photography can be found here.
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