
"It's right on the subway and you pay literally half of what you pay in Manhattan." "We wouldn't think of coming anywhere else," said Michael Bolton, a consulting software tester from Toronto who was in the Bronx for business and brought his wife and 11-year-old daughter along. "The room was phenomenal," said Jennifer Montrose, 26, who had driven with her boyfriend from Richmond, Virginia, US, to see a Major League Soccer game at nearby Yankee Stadium. How to see art in New York without stepping into a galleryīut a highly unscientific survey of the hotel's guests on Sunday afternoon yielded plenty of reasons tourists would come to a two-year-old boutique hotel lodged behind the Beaux-Arts facade of a century-old theatre in the borough that still, apparently, strikes fear in the hearts of cabbies.Ī room at the boutique Opera House Hotel.Views from the 100th floor: Freedom Tower observation deck opens.
