The Fitzgerald Suite
A corner study in walnut, jade lacquer and unpolished brass. The bar cart is stocked to your file before you arrive; the view of the Park is stocked by nature.
Fifth Avenue · New York · Est. 1929
Thirty-nine storeys of gilded calm above Manhattan — where the Jazz Age never checked out, the martinis are never rushed, and every key is still cut from brass.
Rooms & Residences
Two hundred and twelve keys, no two alike — each restored to its 1929 drawings, then quietly spoiled with the present century.
A corner study in walnut, jade lacquer and unpolished brass. The bar cart is stocked to your file before you arrive; the view of the Park is stocked by nature.
Emerald lacquer walls, hand-set feather marquetry, and a soaking tub carved from a single block of verde marble. The terrace holds two chairs and every sunset.
The entire crown of the hotel: a private observatory dome, a Steinway that once toured with Ellington, a butler's pantry, and a bath with the best seat in New York.
Evenings & Rituals
Four rooms, four tempers — kept exactly as the architects Delano & Rousseau left them, down to the last brass inlay.
Forty-two martinis on the card and one golden rule: never rushed. Ask Reynard for the 1929 Vesper, stirred to the house metronome.
Daily · 5 pm — 2 amA marble hammam, gold-leaf facials, and a 22-metre bathing hall beneath a barrel vault of hand-set emerald mosaic.
Daily · 6 am — 10 pmThree thousand crystal prisms above a sprung maple floor. Home of the Midnight Orchestra every Saturday since repeal.
Events · By ArrangementA 39th-floor lounge of telescopes, star charts and rare cognac. On clear nights the sommelier pairs constellations.
Nightly · Dusk — LateNinety-Seven Years of Service
One does not simply stay at The Vesper Grand. One is received, restored, and returned to the city several years younger than one arrived.
Evelyn MarshThe Continental Review · Winter 1934
Reservations
Arrivals are met at the kerb by name. Departures are, historically, postponed.
Concierge, day or night — +1 (212) 555-0129