09 MAR 2026 hotels
The Pierre, A Taj Hotel — A 2026 Review
Six paid nights at the Pierre on Fifth and 61st — 21 years into Taj's tenure, the rotunda murals, Perrine, and the only Forbes Five-Star uptown of 59th.
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02 FEB 2026 hotels
Mandarin Oriental New York at Twenty-Two: A 2026 Review
Mandarin Oriental New York opened on the 35th-to-54th floors of the Time Warner Center (now Deutsche Bank Center) at Columbus Circle in 2003. After a quiet 2024 soft refresh of the public spaces and a partial room refurbishment cycle that ran through 2024-2025, we logged two stays in spring 2026 to see where the hotel sits against the Aman New York, Park Hyatt New York, The Mark, and the Carlyle in 2026.