travel42 Hotel Review: The Bowery Hotel

The Bowery Hotel travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

This hotel is a retro-boho Victorian showcase that effuses its own style. Copycats abound, but this is the true original—and it has the city's only bowler hat-sporting valets to prove it.

Though reminders of the gritty Bowery of old remain, this hotel marks the neighborhood's gentrification as evidenced by the many condos and restaurants that have edged out the homeless shelters and drug-rehab centers. Plus, the hotel is within easy walking distance of ot...