The Beekman, A Thompson Hotel, by Hyatt

Silliman and Farnsworth designed Temple Court in 1881 for Eugene Kelly, and when it opened two years later its more than two hundred offices ringed an atrium that climbed nine stories to a pyramidal skylight. Fire code sealed that atrium off in the 1940s, an accident that preserved it. The last commercial tenant left in 2001 and restoration began in 2014, bringing back the encaustic floors, the plasterwork and the ironwork with its flowers, dragons and sunbursts. The city made the atrium an interior landmark in June 2024.

Martin Brudnizki turned those offices into 287 rooms, aged oak floors and off-white walls under high ceilings. The minibar is an antique table dressed in patterned cloth with a silver tray of bottles on it, and the bathrooms lay off-white Carrara marble in hexagons underfoot, with a timber farmhouse apron sink on a polished metal washstand. In the towers at either end, the twin turret penthouses are duplexes with lofted bedrooms, private entrances and their own rooftop terraces. The ceilings there reach forty feet.

Arrival is through the 1890 annex, a few minutes up from Fulton Street station. The reception desk wears a patchwork of old rugs under an antiqued timber top, and the elevators are lined in embossed leather framed with brass. Daniel Boulud's Le Gratin holds the ground floor at the corner of Beekman and Nassau, and Tom Colicchio's Temple Court sits a few steps off the atrium. The atrium does the rest.