From
From $900/night
Rooms
120
Setting
Chelsea - High Line
Best For
Art · Design · Energy
Reviewed
June 2026
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"A hotel that dares you to enter without smiling. The door staff in all-white ringmaster outfits. The largest Keith Haring work not in a museum hangs behind glass on the second floor. A deconstructed disco ball by Sebastian Errazuriz above the bar. Faena New York is unabashedly maximalist and precisely that is the point."
Alan Faena opened his first New York property in September 2025, in the in the western tower of the One High Line complex at 500 West 18th Street, a building designed by Bjarke Ingels Group, the Danish firm behind the 8 House in Copenhagen and the Vancouver House. The 120-room hotel occupies the lower floors of the twisted residential tower, with the High Line running directly adjacent and the Hudson River visible from the upper suites. The lobby is called The Cathedral, and the defining element is Diego Gravinese's monumental mural, The Sefirotic Journey, covering the entrance wall. A Keith Haring original hangs behind protective glass in the second-floor gallery corridor.
THE PROPERTY
West 18th Street and the High Line occupy a stretch of western Chelsea that has changed more dramatically than any other block in Manhattan over the past fifteen years. The Hudson Yards complex is visible to the north. The Meatpacking District and Chelsea Market sit just south, while the Chelsea gallery district extends north. The Faena occupies the directly alongside the High Line's west terminus, which means the elevated park runs at window height for the lower floors, a relationship with the city that no other hotel in New York has.
LOBBY CULTURE
The Cathedral lobby is organized around Gravinese's mural and the circuit of social spaces that flow from it. The Living Room has twin Deco-inspired bars and a terrace suspended above the High Line. La Cava is a wine cellar anchored by a Chris Levine light work. El Secreto is the nightlife den, built around Sebastian Errazuriz's deconstructed disco ball. The three spaces are connected by the second-floor gallery where the Keith Haring hangs, and the entire social circuit is designed to move guests through the building rather than keep them in one room.
DESIGN NOTES
Alan Faena and his team produced interiors that carry the brand's signature symbology, bold patterns, rich textures, floor-to-ceiling windows, into a BIG building whose twisting geometry gives every room a different relationship to the city. The Hudson River suites on the ninth and tenth floors are the strongest rooms on the property, with 900 square feet and water views unavailable from the lower floors. The two-story Faena Suite at the top has a dedicated elevator, three king bedrooms, a baby grand piano, and a landscaped terrace with a panorama from the Hudson to the Empire State Building.
BAR & SHARED SPACES
La Boca, Francis Mallmann's tribute to Buenos Aires, serves Patagonian fire-cooking alongside pop-art murals by Edgardo Gimenez and live performances. It is the hotel's primary dining anchor and the same conceptual universe Mallmann has applied at Faena Miami, open fire, Argentine spirit, and a room that treats dinner as theater. The Living Room's dual bars handle the cocktail program from afternoon through late night. The Faena Theater is a gilded cabaret space commissioned with artwork by Andrés Reisinger. Tierra Santa Healing House, the 17,000-square-foot spa, is open.
Faena New York opened in September 2025 in a BIG-designed tower at 500 West 18th Street. La Boca brings Mallmann's Patagonian fire-cooking to Chelsea. The gallery corridor holds a magnificant Keith Haring. The Faena Suite is two stories with a baby grand and a terrace from the Hudson to the Empire State Building.
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ROOMS THAT MATTER
The 120 rooms divide across the first ten floors of the BIG tower. The Highline King Junior Suite is the entry into the suite program, named for its direct relationship with the elevated park below. The Classic One-Bedroom and Hudson Signature One-Bedroom Suites give progressively stronger Hudson River positions. The Chelsea One-Bedroom Suite occupies the eastern side of the building with city views. The Rose One-Bedroom Suite is the hotel's most elaborately finished standard suite.
THE VERDICT
The most culturally loaded hotel opening in New York since the Hotel Chelsea. A BIG building, a Mallmann kitchen, a Keith Haring, a Gravinese mural, and a Faena Suite with a baby grand above the High Line. The city will be going to this building for reasons that have nothing to do with hotel rooms.
Editor's Note
The most culturally loaded New York hotel opening since the Chelsea. Mallmann's fire, a Keith Haring, and a Gravinese mural above the High Line.
The Lobby Edit Score
9.4
/ 10
BIG tower above the High Line, Mallmann's fire kitchen, and a Keith Haring in the gallery.
Property
Faena New York
Brand
Faena / Accor
Category
Luxury Lifestyle
Rooms
120
Opened
September 2025
Address
500A West 18th Street, New York, NY
Rates From
$900
Per Night · Direct Booking
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Collections
Art
Design
New York
Americas
Chelsea
High Line
Francis Mallmann
New Opening
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Category Scores
Design & Materials
9.6
Atmosphere & Scent
9.3
Lobby Culture
9.4
Service
9.3
Rooms & Suites
9.4
Food & Beverage
9.3
Value
8.8
Sense of Place
What Faena New York does to a Chelsea evening, when La Boca opens and the High Line fills below the tower.
SIGNATURE SCENT
Faena's warm amber custom blend translated from Miami into a Chelsea building where the Hudson is visible above.
LOBBY ENERGY
New York art crowd, Chelsea gallery circuit, design travelers. The building everyone was watching rise.
MATERIAL CHARACTER
BIG's twisting geometry, Gravinese mural, Keith Haring, Errazuriz disco ball.
TIME OF DAY
Mornings for Urbana and the High Line. Late evenings for El Secreto and the art circuit through the building.
Faena New York Lobby Culture Score: 9.4. The Cathedral, La Boca, and the Keith Haring make the most art-driven lobby in Chelsea.
Suites
That Earn the Stay
High Line King Junior Suite
King - High Line Adjacent - Bold Faena Palette - Floor-to-Ceiling Windows
From $900/night
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Classic One-Bedroom Suite
King - 825 sq ft - Separate Bedroom - City Views - Sculptural Furnishings
From $1,200/night
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Hudson Signature One-Bedroom Suite
King - 900 sq ft - Hudson River Views - 9th and 10th Floor - Strongest Room on Property
From $1,500/night
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Rose One-Bedroom Suite
King - Most Elaborately Finished Suite - Private Terrace - Panoramic City Position
From $1,800/night
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Imperial One-Bedroom Suite
King · Private Terrace · Double Vanities
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Dining, Bar & Shared Spaces
Where the hotel earns its rate beyond the room.
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While You're Here
What to Do Nearby
01
The High Line
Walk out the door and onto the elevated park at 18th Street. Go north toward 34th Street in the morning before the crowds arrive.
03
Chelsea Gallery District
Walk north to 26th and 27th Streets between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues. The most concentrated gallery district in the world. Thursday afternoons when new shows open.
05
La Boca at Dinner
Already in the hotel. Mallmann's fire kitchen with live performance. The most theatrically designed dinner in Chelsea.
02
The Keith Haring Corridor
Already in the building. Walk the second-floor gallery before dinner. A monumental 1983 Haring work.
04
The Whitney Museum
10 min walk south to the Meatpacking District. Renzo Piano's building on Gansevoort Street holds the strongest survey of 20th-century American art in the country.
06
Chelsea Market
10 min walk east. The former Nabisco factory with the best concentration of specialty food vendors in Manhattan.
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