NEW YORK’S NEWEST HOTELS REVEAL THE CITY’S ROMANTIC STREAK

The Wall Street Hotel

When the Paspaley family, founders of one of Australia’s oldest pearl companies, opened The Wall Street Hotel in the middle of Manhattan’s financial district in 2022, the neighborhood was still struggling to reclaim its swagger following the Covid-19 pandemic that emptied out office buildings. Now the hotel’s Lounge on Pearl — a sumptuous lobby cocktail bar that anchors the early 20th-century Beaux-Arts building — draws a steady crowd most nights for after-work and pre-dinner drinks (the hotel is also home to La Marchande, the chef John Fraser’s French chophouse). Along with the lounge, the 180 guest rooms were designed by Liubasha Rose, the founder of the Miami-based firm Rose Ink Workshop, who took cues from prominent landmarks around the city including the Morgan Library and Bemelmans Bar, outfitting the spaces with watercolors, velvet and, naturally, mother-of-pearl.