Le Colonial has signed a 15‑year lease for about 9,600 square feet at 50 West 57th Street, with a target opening in summer 2027. The dining room is slated to accommodate approximately 215 seats, with outdoor seating, a bar and private dining. The group has also taken a companion office lease for the building's entire seventh floor.
The hotel is on a prime cut of the Midtown East business district near Grand Central that the Bloomberg and de Blasio administrations upzoned in the 2010s. That change was meant to spur projects like this one, replacing older mid-rise buildings with newer taller ones, and we're seeing the results now.
When I opened the door. I stepped in, I was inside for two seconds. I looked down. I heard an argument happening. I heard: p***y, p***y, p***y, and then the shooting. I just turned a run and all the other people came after me, said the eyewitness, who asked to remain anonymous. Police from the Midtown South Precinct and EMS rushed to the scene, where they pronounced Jackson dead.
Verizon has quietly put the office space it preleased at Vornado's PENN 2 tower back on the market for sublease, reversing the Manhattan headquarters move it announced last summer. The space hit the market less than seven months after the July 2025 lease was signed and sends roughly 200,000 rentable square feet back into the Midtown mix, an unexpected twist for what had been held up as a marquee vote of confidence in the Penn District.
You'd be excused for not noticing Hue House while walking down a midtown Manhattan street. After all, as ambitious as the idea behind this new four-story cultural club showcasing Asian culture may be, the building itself is fairly nondescript, tucked into 56 East 41st Street near Madison Avenue. Step inside, though, and it becomes immediately clear just how much thought has gone into the project.
Beloved for its craveable Fieldtrays, London-born Farmer J makes its U.S. debut in midtown. Midtown just got a serious lunch upgrade and London's cult-favorite Farmer J is the one making it happen. After a buzzy opening celebration this week, the fast-casual spot beloved across the pond for its farm-to-fork Fieldtrays has officially opened its first-ever U.S. location at 31 W. 52nd Street, right in the heart of Rockefeller Center territory.
A man remained hospitalized in critical condition Monday, hours after he apparently shot himself in the chest in the heart of Midtown, blocks from holiday crowds enjoying a nighttime look at the Rockefeller Center tree and Radio City. Little was known about the circumstances regarding the shooting, which happened near West 57th Street and Sixth Avenue -- an area known as "Billionaire's Row" -- around 10:15 p.m. Sunday.
A Port Authority bus slammed into a building in Midtown during the Thursday evening rush hour, amNewYork has learned. The bus crashed into scaffolding and appears to have made contact with a building on Lexington Avenue and 41st Street. The incident occurred at approximately 4:15 p.m. on Dec. 11, just before sunset. So far, sources close to the incident have reported that one person appears to be injured.
It was the white noise of the helicopter blades slicing through the air - not the incessant emergency vehicle sirens - that tipped me off that something was wrong. In New York, the chaos - the wailing of an ambulance, the incessant honking of the horns - is so commonplace that it becomes an unnoticed, repeating chorus. Which is why when I heard the sounds of fire engines and cop cars while sitting on the 14th floor
Kimpton Ashbel New York-Park Avenue will take over the 70 Park Avenue Hotel beginning November 11. Initially built in 1928 during the Beaux-Arts movement as the Doral Park Avenue Hotel, the hotel has had a storied history in Midtown Manhattan. Its new journey will see it join the IHG One Rewards portfolio. Kimpton Ashbel New York-Park Avenue will have 205 guest rooms and suites, including 14 connecting rooms, perfect for families.
A chaotic scene unfolded in Midtown Manhattan Sunday night as cops wrestled with thousands of orthodox Jewish protesters in an effort to stop them flooding into the roadway and overrunning traffic. NYPD officers could be seen tussling with metal guard rails and pushing a deluge of humanity back on the sidewalks as vehicles came to a crawl not far from the Israeli consulate at 800 2nd Ave.
IHG fans have a brand new property to look forward to in Manhattan. The Kimpton Era Midtown New York is scheduled to open on March 1, 2026, and is now accepting reservations. This stunning new hotel is a welcome addition to the New York hotel scene and will give travelers yet another option to stay in the Big Apple using points. Let's take a look at the details.
SI Swimsuit has a long history with the Hard Rock Hotel New York, as the venue is where we host our annual magazine launch red carpet and after-party in May, and this year, it also served as the backdrop for our PINKTOBER photo shoot in partnership with the Hard Rock International. Read about the cause here, and below, learn more about the award-winning hotel and get ready to book an unforgettable stay.
Authorities say the two victims, a 37-year-old man and a 39-year-old man, began recording two men they believed to be suspicious after they donned hoodies and masks. The pair would later tell cops they started filming just in case something were to happen. However, the masked men became enraged at the video-happy straphangers. Police report that the four men became embroiled in a verbal dispute that ended with a vicious assault.
Bookended by Central Park to the north and The Battery historic park to the south, the districts of Midtown and Lower Manhattan contain much of the city that visitors want to experience. There are the New York icons - the Empire State Building, Broadway, Grand Central - made familiar through their appearances on screen over the decades. And there are the smaller details that take up just as much space in the memory: the hot dog sellers on street corners, the blaring horns of yellow taxis
Employees started moving in to JPMorgan's new megaskyscraper at 270 Park a few months ago, but it officially opens later this month. And while the 60-story, Norman Foster-designed tower has been described as a symbol of return to office and the revival of midtown Manhattan, it's more of an outlier than a bellwether of the office market. Not only is the tower an unusually luxe space for the 10,000 bankers who've been mandated to return to work there,
New York City has a countless number of Italian eateries strewn throughout the city, so many that at times it feels like Rome. But owner Darios Asara, who is bringing his Rome-based restaurant Ginger to New York City on October 1, 2025 to 49 th Street and Sixth Avenue in proximity to Rockefeller Center and Radio City Music Hill, with a style of Italian food that few others contain: Blue Zone diet.
NYPD Police arrested a 35-year-old Manhattanville man on Saturday for the attempted rape of a woman inside a Midtown business on Labor Day. Joseph Wichard was charged with attempted rape and sex abuse on Sept. 6 at the 26th Precinct, the NYPD said Monday. His arrest followed a manhunt launched last week for the perpetrator behind the attack inside a nail salon near the corner of West 36th Street and Broadway in Manhattan at 6 p.m. on Sept. 1.
Midtown Manhattan is a place of constant motion. From the morning rush through Bryant Park to the late-night glow of Times Square, the neighborhood represents the pulse of New York City. For locals and visitors alike, finding premium high-THC weed near Bryant Park is becoming just as much a part of the Midtown lifestyle as coffee runs and rooftop drinks.
