This is a great book for anyone who's interested in making where they stay in the Big Apple as important as the places they visit. If you're on a budget, try the Incentra Village House, located in the heart of the maze that is the western portion of Greenwich Village. This welcoming little hotel boasts a fireplace in almost every room and back rooms with a garden view. Or Bevy's Loft, the only B&B in Soho where the refrigerator door is open to all comers--"It's more like home than home," writes Sperry. If you don't have to look at the bill before you pay it, check out the Lombardy, where the staff includes a seamstress, or the Lowell Hotel, where the Gym Suite offers its own private workout room, fresh flowers greet you, and high tea is served each day at four.
This is one in a series of great little books on the ins and outs of New York City, including the town's hottest night spots, best places to take kids, and the city's best chocolate.
The Weekly Star, Dec. 4-10, 1997
A week ago, it was a pleasure to go to the cozy lobby of the Mansfield Hotel on West 44th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Here sketches of John Coburn adorned the hotel lobby as guest[s] drank champagne for the launch of the book, "New York's 50 Best Wonderful Little Hotels." This book is filled with Coburn's drawings from four-poster beds to limousines and taxis letting off passengers in front of the various hotels. Written by Allen Sperry, it gives you an insight about the various celebrities that come in and out, the amenities and prices that fit every budget of the various hotels, and it also tells you the surrounding restaurants. "New York's 50 Best [Wonderful] Little Hotels" even has some unknown finds that are in New York's Village from the Carlton Hotel, Crowne Plaza at the United Nations, to little inns [such] as the Gracie Inn
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