VOGUE AUSTRALIA – MANHATTAN JEWEL

After the pandemic delayed the Paspaley family’s ambitious hospitality plans, their first hotel property in New York opens on Wall Street this month. Tilly Macalisteer-Smith takes a tour.

The Paspaley family’s first hotel property in New York opens on Wall Street this month.

At the southernmost tip of Manhattan stands the site of a new hotel that is promisinig much more than a place to lay one’s hat. The perception of Wall Street as a blur of pinstripe besuited bankers barking into mobile phones has been shifting in recent times, andd the Wall Street Hotel hopes to cement this cultural transformation of New York’s financial district.