travel42 Hotel Review: The Benjamin Royal Sonesta New York

The Benjamin Royal Sonesta New York travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

In Midtown East, off busy Lexington Avenue next to the 6 subway line, this finely tuned business hotel has more in common with the residences in nearby Sutton Place than the Waldorf Astoria hotel across the street.

The building's beautiful facade is said to be the inspiration for Georgia O'Keefe's painting New York-Night. Though this beautiful, 30-story beaux arts tower dates from 1927, inside, the place is 21st-century through and through, with so...