I have spent the last two and a half years penning love letters to boutique hotels in the form of eblasts and emails. Among the properties I’ve been lucky enough to describe are The New Yorker, Ink 48, Stoweflake Mountain Resort & Spa, The Chambers Hotel Minneapolis, and The Godfrey Hotel & Cabanas Tampa. For each hotel, I did a deep dive into their locales, neighborhoods and lore. (Check out the example below.)

The New Yorker Hotel

The New Yorker Hotel is unforgettable–and not just because it’s across the street from Madison Square Garden. The “Grand Old Lady” has welcomed her share of celebrity guests over the decades and boasts its own power plant plus a 24-hour diner on the premises.

Here are examples of eblasts I’ve written for The New Yorker:

The New Yorker’s glorious past is a content creator’s dream.

• A 19-year-old Ava Gardner and 21-year-old Mickey Rooney honeymooned here in 1942. It was the first marriage for the stunning starlet, who went on to marry bandleader Artie Shaw and crooner Frank Sinatra. Rooney, already a box office star, married seven more times.

• Inventor Nikola Tesla spent the last decade of his life in Suites 3327 and 3328 before his death on January 7, 1943.

• Muhammad Ali recuperated in Suite 2549 after losing the fight of the century to Joe Frazier in 1973.

• It’s also where Hilary Clinton gave her concession speech after her failed presidential bid in 2016.

• During the pandemic in 2020, hundreds of nurses, doctors, and frontline health care workers were housed at the hotel, and a ballroom pressed into service as a hand-washing and shoe-sanitizing station.

Staying at The New Yorker leaves you steps from Penn Station, Amtrak, and Macy’s and just blocks from the Empire State Building and Hudson Yards. That’s a definite home court advantage, whether you’re a student staying there for the semester, a tourist visiting Manhattan, a businessman in town for a meeting or convention, or a fan who wants to catch a game or concert at Madison Square Garden.