The New York Edition
Ian Schrager’s Madison Square Park hotel brings Edition polish to the landmark 1909 Met Life Clock Tower.
The New York EDITION has one of those addresses that does half the storytelling before the doorman has opened the door. It sits inside the landmark Metropolitan Life Clock Tower, a 1909 Gothic-style building overlooking Madison Square Park, with the Flatiron District’s energy on one side and a very New York sense of vertical drama above.
Expect Le Labo fragrance, panoramic views and the particular pleasure of a hotel where the small things feel handled. The project, by Ian Schrager in partnership with Marriott, translated a corporate clocktower into a modern luxury hotel without sanding away the building’s bones. Expect a lobby with grown-up low light, rooms that trade shouty spectacle for calm materials, and a location that makes downtown dinners, uptown museums and park-side wandering feel equally plausible.
Dining now centres on The Clocktower, a modern British restaurant within the hotel, with intimate dining rooms, a billiards room and a bar that adds just enough gilding to remind you this is still Manhattan. For Luxa Terra purposes, it is a city stay with a crisp suit and a wink: historic shell, contemporary manners, and Madison Square Park as its front garden.
