This SoHo boutique hotel features contemporary rooms decorated in brown and gray tones with full-wall leather headboards swathed in Frette linens. Other amenities include in-room spa products by Philosophy and oversized showers in the marble bathrooms (along with the requisite high-speed Internet connections, DVD players and CD stereo systems). The hotel’s Thai restaurant, Kittichai, is popular with the hipster crowd who also frequent Thom Bar, a clubby, intimate setting off the lobby in which to relax and enjoy a drink. See if you can wangle an invite to the members-only, rooftop lounge, A-60, with its stellar views.

60 Thompson Amenities:

• 100 rooms, 8 story. Check-in 3 pm, check-out Noon. High-speed Internet access. Restaurant, bar. Business center.