From
$600 / night
Rooms
229
Setting
Central Park South
Best For
Wellness · Nature
Reviewed
April 2025
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"The lobby farmstand had fresh figs the morning I arrived. I stood there eating one, watching people come and go through a front door made of 1,600 reclaimed locust branches. It was the most New York moment I'd had in years — and the least New York place I'd ever been."
1 Hotel Central Park announced itself from the outside before you opened a door. The three-story living green facade — over 24,000 plants climbing the exterior — sits on the Avenue of the Americas like a polite argument against everything around it. Inside, the door is made of 1,600 reclaimed locust branches woven by a Queens artist. The lobby is antique barn wood floors and a reclaimed oak ceiling, tree-stump tables and sheep wool throws and leather chairs. There is no grand arrival sequence. The hotel simply receives you into something that feels already alive.
THE PROPERTY
1 Hotel Central Park is LEED-certified and makes no apology for it. Reclaimed and salvaged materials throughout. Triple-filtered water from every faucet. LED lighting and HVAC energy recovery systems designed to reduce annual energy costs by approximately 20%. Organic, non-toxic mattresses. Locally sourced bed linens. A lobby farmstand stocked daily with free fresh fruit and produce from local farmers. The hotel sits one block from the south entrance of Central Park and five minutes from several subway lines — positioned with the kind of urban intelligence that makes sustainability feel less like a stance and more like a natural condition.
LOBBY CULTURE
The lobby at 1 Hotel Central Park operates at a frequency that is unusual for Midtown Manhattan. It is unhurried. The staff are warm rather than ceremonious. There are cozy chairs and hanging plants and a bar that transitions comfortably from morning coffee to evening drinks. The farmstand by the elevator offers fresh seasonal fruit to anyone who wants it. Yoga mats are available to take outside. Complimentary wellness classes run throughout the week. The energy here is less hotel lobby and more members club that happens to welcome everyone — a place that rewards people who slow down long enough to notice what's been put into it.
DESIGN NOTES
The design language is reclaimed, salvaged, and alive. Barn wood floors. Reclaimed oak ceilings. Tree-stump tables. Stone floors and brick walls. Hanging plants and succulents in every room. The greenhouse-inspired shower sits in the center of the guest room rather than behind a wall — a spatial decision that adds light and makes the room feel significantly larger than its footprint. The in-room minibar is stocked with health-focused items, 30% locally sourced. The bath amenities, developed in partnership with Bamford, are formulated with geranium, lavender, peppermint, and tonka. Everything here has been thought about. Nothing is decorative for its own sake.
BAR & SHARED SPACES
Jams is Jonathan Waxman's all-day restaurant — an open kitchen with an airy wood-filled room, a marble bar, and a greenery-lined terrace that opens in warmer months. The seasonal menu runs from gnocchi and duck breast to weekend brunch buffets that are among the best in Midtown. The second floor holds the fitness center, five meeting and lounge spaces, and a small business center. The Audi e-tron electric house car is available for emission-free city transport. HigherDose in-room wellness tools — infrared sauna blanket, PEMF mat — can be arranged through the concierge. The lobby farmstand functions as a kind of commons: free, generous, and constantly restocked.
There are two 1 Hotels in our portfolio and they are doing the same thing in completely different registers. West Hollywood is canyon and cedar. Central Park is ivy and reclaimed oak. Both ask the same question: what does a city feel like when you remember it has a nature? Both answer it correctly.
— The Lobby Edit · Founder's Note
ROOMS THAT MATTER
The 229 rooms continue the material language of the public spaces — reclaimed wood, industrial accents, hemp mattresses, organic bedding. Pops of green come from potted succulents and window planters. Some rooms have window daybeds and separate sitting areas. The greenhouse-inspired shower at the center of the room is the defining spatial feature. Park-facing rooms are available though partially screened by neighboring buildings — the upper floors and Park Suite categories offer the clearest sightlines. The Park Penthouse, unveiled in 2023 on the 19th floor, contains over 3,000 living plants across its indoor and outdoor spaces. It is the most ambitious room in the 1 Hotels portfolio.
THE VERDICT
1 Hotel Central Park is the most complete expression of what the 1 Hotels brand is building — a hospitality concept that treats sustainability not as a marketing position but as an organizing principle. The design is genuinely considered. The location is irreplaceable. The lobby culture is warm and unhurried in a neighborhood that is neither. For the traveler who wants New York without the performance of New York, this is the correct address.
Editor's Note
Central Park is one block north. The door is made of reclaimed locust branches. There are 24,000 plants in the building. This is what a luxury hotel looks like when it decides that nature is the amenity.
The Lobby Edit Score
9.4
/ 10
The most considered sustainable hotel in Manhattan. Design that earns its conviction.
Property
1 Hotel Central Park
Brand
1 Hotels
Category
Sustainable Luxury
Rooms
229
Opened
2015
Address
1414 Avenue of the Americas, NYC
Rates From
$600
Per Night · Direct Booking
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Category Scores
Design & Materials
9.6
Atmosphere & Scent
9.2
Lobby Culture
9.0
Service
8.8
Rooms & Suites
9.1
Food & Beverage
9.2
Value
8.6
Sense of Place
What 1 Hotel Central Park does to the pace of a Midtown morning — not what it looks like, but how it makes the city feel briefly optional.
Signature Scent
Geranium, lavender, peppermint, tonka. Bamford's formulation for the brand. Botanical, grounding, never obvious.
Lobby Energy
Wellness-minded, unhurried, genuinely warm. A lobby that rewards people who slow down
Material Character
Reclaimed barn wood, living plants, salvaged oak, stone floors — texture and life over polish and sheen
Time of Day
Morning belongs to the farmstand and Central Park. Evening belongs to Jams and the bar.
1 Hotel Central Park Lobby Culture Score: 9.0. The farmstand, the wellness classes, the sheep wool throws — a lobby that gives more than it asks. Unhurried in a neighborhood built for urgency.
Suites
Rooms That Breathe
Alcove Jr. Suite
KING · INTERIOR VIEW · SEPARATE LIVING AREA · RAIN SHOWER
From $600
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City Suite
KING · PREMIUM CITY VIEW · WINDOW NOOK · SHOWER ONLY
From $900
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Park Suite
KING · DIRECT PARK VIEW · WINDOW NOOK · RAIN SHOWER
From $1,200
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Park Terrace Suite
KING · PARK VIEW · PRIVATE TERRACE · SEPARATE LIVING · 19TH FLOOR
From $2,000
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Elm House Suite
KING · PARK VIEW · PRIVATE TERRACE · KITCHENETTE · 19TH FLOOR
From $7,000
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THE COMMON GROUND
A Hotel That Gives The City Back To You.
Restaurant, Wellness & Shared Spaces
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Three restaurants worth the walk. One for every part of the day.
While You're Here
WHAT TO DO
01
Central Park at Dawn
One block north. 843 acres before the city wakes up. The Reservoir loop at 6am is one of the best hours available to a visitor in New York. Take the hotel yoga mat.
03
MoMA
10 minutes on foot. The permanent collection alone — Monet's Water Lilies, Picasso's Les Demoiselles, Pollock's One — justifies the ticket. Arrive when it opens. The Design Store on the way out is worth the detour.
05
The Frick Collection
20 minutes on foot. Henry Clay Frick's mansion on Fifth Avenue, now one of the finest small museums in the world. Vermeer, Rembrandt, Velázquez — in rooms that still feel like a private home. No children under 10 admitted. Quiet is the point.
02
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
15 minutes on foot up Fifth Avenue. The largest art museum in the Western Hemisphere. Go directly to the Temple of Dendur, the European paintings on the second floor, and the rooftop bar in season. Three hours minimum.
04
Fifth Avenue & the Upper East Side
Walk north along Fifth Avenue bordering the park. The density of cultural institutions between 59th and 96th Streets — the Met, the Guggenheim, the Frick, the Cooper Hewitt — is unmatched anywhere in the world.
06
Madison Avenue
The avenue is back. The Row opened here. So did Brunello Cucinelli's flagship. Hermès never left. Walk south from the hotel and spend an hour on the stretch between 57th and 72nd. Bring a card.
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