On the Ave Hotel
New York, NY 10024-6610
Phone: (212) 362-1100
Fax: (212) 473-1067
- Cross Street:
- Between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue
- Directions:
- 1 at 79th St
Editorial Review for On the Ave Hotel – by Gayot.com
The Scene
This hotel, which has a resolutely downtown feel, is a startling find uptown. The twelve-story building hails from 1922, but there's been a lot of work done on it since then. The lobby looks like it belongs in a modern art museum, with its low-slung fabric benches and subtle recessed lighting. Yet rooms are surprisingly affordable, including frequently-advertised specials to be found on the Web.
The Details
The 251 rooms are sleek and streamlined with smooth, white bed linens juxtaposed against matte wainscoting and sheer floor-to-ceiling drapes. All have high-speed Internet connections. The bathrooms represent the perfect marriage of form and function, with touches such as stainless-steel sinks. Original mixed media paintings by Puerto Rican New York artist Alfonso Munoz add attitude and color. Some of the rooms have wraparound glass terraces, which look out over the rooftops of the residential, Upper West Side neighborhood.
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User Reviews for On the Ave Hotel
07/08/2008 Posted by U2FanU2
I recently stayed at On The Ave Hotel and had an amazing experience. We arrived to a friendly staff, eager to make sure we had a fabulous stay in the city!! the hotel was located in my favorite neighborhood in all of NYC--the fabulous Upper West Side in the 70's. The rooms werent reasonably priced and were a good size for NYC standards. I highly recommend this hotel to anyone visiting the city, especially if you want to "breathe" and not be right in the madness of midtown!!!
Pros: location, adorable, great staff
10/26/2007 Posted by 1003reviewer
Booked a deluxe room at On The Avenue after my wedding on the Upper West Side. Showed up in wedding gown with groom in tow, so there could have been no doubt that this was our wedding night. The room was absolutely freezing, and when we called to complain, the desk was not apologetic and told us to OPEN THE WINDOWS to warm the place up. Except of course it was cold out, and the traffic would have been loud if we had opened the windows and we were only on the 4th floor so there would also have been a car exhaust issue. So we just turned up the heat and went looking for nice warm bathrobes. Except of course there was only one nice warm bathrobe. I dunno. One would expect a little more from a nice New York "boutique" hotel. One would expect more from Motel Six. Plus of course, professionalism aside, if the hotel staff had been human in any way they might have had the instinct to offer us a different room, or extra blankets, or anything to make the (I repeat) wedding night of a couple something other than an experience that roughly approximated winter camping with inadequate supplies. Fortunately we escaped their clutches the next day and had a honeymoon in a place warm enough to help us recover from the whole icy experience. The Excelsior or the Lucerne are other Upper West Side Hotels that might actually be worth checking out. This place is not.
Cons: poor service, uncomfortable room
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