travel42 Hotel Review: The Mark Hotel

The Mark Hotel travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

On the corner of Madison Avenue at 77th Street, this snazzy Upper East Side address always creates a buzz. Celebrities belly up to the bar, but here celebrities own the bar, too; Jean-Georges Vongerichten is in the kitchen, Frederic Fekkai is behind the spa and Jacques Grange generated the go-for-broke modern aesthetic.

Unlike the other "town house" hotels hereabouts—the Lowell or the Carlyle—this place has more of a downtown rather than uptown vibe. In f...