Rising 35 stories high into the New York City skyline, Moxy NYC Chelsea, the micro-room, macro-amenity hotel, developed by Lightstone and part of Marriott International?s experiential Moxy Hotels brand, is now open in Manhattan. Inspired by the surrounding Flower District, the hotel blends a botanically-influenced design with Italian romance and a touch of playful wit ? perfectly timed to welcome guests on Valentine?s Day.

Creating an environment that appeals to both today?s modern traveller and locals, Moxy Chelsea was developed with a collection of public spaces designed to meet the community?s dining, drinking, and co-working needs?while providing guests access to New York City at a neighbourhood level.

The newly-constructed building?s architecture riffs off the neighbourhood?s retro-industrial style and feels harmonious with its location, in the heart of the Chelsea Flower Market. The hotel blends into the lush flower shops that surround it, with a soaring three-story glass atrium revealing the vertical gardens within.
Guests enter through the overgrown Putnam & Putnam Flower Shop, designed by Yabu Pushelberg, which is envisioned as a ?botanical library,? with planter boxes suspended from the 15-foot wall, reachable by a wheeled ladder. The shop is run by husbands Darroch and Michael Putnam, whose couture approach to floral arrangements over the years has made them a staple at celebrity weddings, including the recent nuptials of Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Fal...