i love staying here so much. i don't know what it is...how simple and elegant it is? the smell? sitting at the kitchen table having coffee and just staring at all of the beautiful little details? whatever it is, i am totally sold. i thought about staying in lower manhattan, but between the hotel cost and parking, having to figure out where my coffee is going to come from and scheduling a time (i don't function to well with out it in the am) for it to arrive, and feeling disconnected from humans, i stay here, and spend the $1000 i save on a 3 day trip to nyc on splurges for myself. i come home with little souvenirs of my trip instead of an itemized hotel bill. i love it here. you will too.