Nicholas Beck: Each of the 10 guest room floors devoted to 1 of the categories of the Dewey Decimal System, each of the 60 rooms has a set of books devoted to a topic within that category.
1170 Broadway (at 28th St) (at 28th St), New York, NY
Hotel Bar · NoMad · 94 tips and reviews
Nicholas Beck: This magnificent 3,500 expertly curated tomes. Nab a cocktail at the bar and look through two floors’ worth of books, accessible by a spiral staircase. Titles cover medieval history to Audrey Hepburn.
Nicholas Beck: On the Road penner, Kerouac a regular at this Village pub. Rumor has it he overstayed his welcome so many times that “Kerouac, go home!” was scrawled above a urinal in the men’s room.
59 W 44th St (btw 5th and 6th Avenues), New York, NY
Hotel Bar · Midtown East · 38 tips and reviews
Nicholas Beck: Drinking den is an ideal place to trade bookish barbs. Housed in Algonquin Hotel, where Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley met daily as part of famed ’20s group the Algonquin Round Table/Vicious Circle.