The Mark Hotel

The Mark occupies a 1927 building on Madison Avenue in the Upper East Side, a block from Central Park and an 8-minute walk from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Interiors throughout, in both guest rooms and public spaces, were designed by French decorator Jacques Grange, blending Art Deco details with modern art and the hotel's signature black-and-white palette.

Rooms carry custom furniture, marble bathrooms with mirrored flat-screen TVs, and some suites add granite bars and kitchens with Sub-Zero and Gaggenau appliances; 46 of the rooms are suites. Dining comes from Jean-Georges Vongerichten, whose restaurant sits on the ground floor alongside the Mark Bar and the first New York location of Paris's Caviar Kaspia.

There is a fitness center, a Frédéric Fekkai salon, complimentary shoeshine and loaner bikes, but no pool. The hotel suits travelers prioritizing a design-forward Upper East Side base near museums and Madison Avenue shopping over resort-style facilities.