NEW YORK CITY
Where to stay 27 new properties added almost 6,000 rooms to the city’s stock last year, with a further 9,000 in the pipeline this year. e 224-room Graduate Roosevelt Island, the only hotel on the tech island, blends funky interiors with great views while the new Hard Rock Hotel New York o ers 446 bedrooms across 36 oors near Times Square. Aman New York, Fifth Avenue, promises an urban sanctuary when it opens this year while Moxy Hotels will soon launch properties on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. What they say “It was fun to be back in NYC and see it back in business,” says Shari A. Bedker, Administrative Director for the International Insolvency Institute which held its 21st annual conference for 100 delegates in October 2021 at event venue 583 Park Avenue. “We used e Loeb Boathouse Central Park for our awards dinner, which was a perfect t for our group. We opted to not use a hotel for our venue as many of our members have their own favourite hotels in NYC so it is dicult to set up a block.”
New York City is investing in new and upgraded venues, hotels, transportation, connectivity and much more this year in what Jerry Cito, NYC & Company’s executive VP of convention development, calls a “continual reinvention” to enable “the meeting planners, event producers and delegates that we welcome to NYC every year to come back and have a new experience of the city each time”. e Big Apple has taken a big bite out of the tech market in recent years with Roosevelt Island in the East River now home to the city’s Silicon Alley. e Cornell Technology campus - a cooperative venture between City Hall, Cornell University and the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa - has made its base there, while nance and trade dominate the industry focus elsewhere. Upgrades to transport infrastructure will soon make it easier for delegates to get in and out of the city with a new $1.6bn Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station, while both LaGuardia Airport and JFK International Airport are undergoing major redevelopment. Where to meet NYC’s thirst for innovation extends to a US$1.5bn expansion of the Javits Center, which breathed new life into Midtown Manhattan’s west side. e venue now boasts a special event space with capacity for 5,000 people, the largest of its kind in the northeast, along with a rooftop pavilion which can host 1,500. Its new seven-acre green roof has become home to birds, bats and bees as it boosts its eco credentials too. Located airside at JFK International Airport for ultimate convenience, the quirky new 512-room TWA Hotel o ers 45 event rooms and ve hospitality suites, which can host up to 1,600 with a slick retro vibe.
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