Netjets US Summer 2023

THE SMART GUIDE
ROOM WITH A VIEW
A Liberty Club Suite
at The Ritz-Carlton
New York, NoMad.
Today, period edifices
sit cheek by jowl with
steel-and-glass high-rises,
breakout mid-rise buildings,
and restored midcentury
edifices, which are home
to apartments, offices for
© THE RITZ-CARLTON NEW YORK, NOMAD
creative and technology
firms, and, increasingly,
hotels. The most notable of
the Empire State Building
restaurant where the mezze
6,800sq ft spa and gym,
these is The Ritz-Carlton
to Downtown Manhattan
menu is inspired by Turkish,
featuring eight treatment
New York, NoMad (ritzcarlton.
and over to the Statue of
Greek, and Lebanese
rooms, aromatherapy
com), where 250 guestrooms
Liberty, not to mention
cuisines. Andrés will soon
saunas, steam rooms,
and suites as well as a
its tributaries—in all
debut another outpost of
and exclusive treatment
limited collection of 16 pied-
directions. But this is not
his fêted high-end avant-
offerings in partnership with
à-terre penthouse residences
your father’s Ritz. The food
garde dining destinations,
Augustinus Bader.
that are now bookable for
offering comes courtesy of
The Bazaar, but, in the
The latest newcomer to
hotel guests, await in a
Michelin-starred chef José
meantime, guests can have
the neighborhood is Richard
well-proportioned 50-story
Andrés, who conceptualizes
their pre- and post-prandials
Branson’s eye-catchingly
tower designed by architect
everything from the nibbles
at the sceney cocktail bar
angular Virgin Hotel
Rafael Viñoly at the corner of
and small-plate dishes in the
Nubeluz, sitting superjacent
(virginhotels.com), whose
Broadway and 28th Street.
executive lounge to Zaytinya,
to the property at a height
architecture is by Stantec
Rooms are airy with long
the hotel's beyond-buzzy
of 500 feet. The hotel also
and playful design language
views of the city—from
ground-floor Mediterranean
houses a vast and welcome
thanks to the Brooklynbased
team at MARKZEFF.
Spread across 39 stories,
the property encompasses
460 “chambers” (all behind
crimson-colored doors),
a handful of 770sq ft
suites, plus two 2,800sq
ft two-bedroom duplexes
across the 35th and 36th
floors which are dubbed
“Sir Richard’s Flats.” There
is whimsicality everywhere
you look, with a mix-andmatch
design language that
is complemented by an art
collection numbering more
BJÖRN WALLANDER
JASON VARNEY
WINE AND DINE
From left: The Ritz-Carlton New
York, NoMad’s Lobby Lounge and
Bar and Zaytinya restaurant.
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