Library Hotel


Library Hotel by Library Hotel Collection is a 60-room boutique hotel in New York City, located at 299 Madison Avenue, near the New York Public Library Main Branch, Bryant Park, and Grand Central Terminal. The hotel was designed by architect Stephen B. Jacobs.
Library Hotel by Library Hotel Collection boasts a unique organizing principle: each of its ten guest floors has a theme, designated after a major category of the Dewey Decimal Classification, with each room as a subcategory or genre, such as Mathematics or Botany. Other room themes include Erotic Literature, Poetry, and Music. All rooms have a small complement of 50-100 books and decorations that accompany the theme, with 6,000 books overall throughout the hotel.
Because of this classification scheme, the hotel owners were sued in 2003 by the OCLC. OCLC reached an agreement with the hotel enabling the hotel to continue using the Dewey system.
The Library Hotel is owned and operated by Henry Kallan whose Library Hotel Collection includes Manhattan's Casablanca Hotel, Hotel Giraffe and Hotel Elysee. A spin off of the Library Hotel's "book lovers' paradise" concept is the Library Hotel Collection's Aria Hotel concept designed for music lovers. Aria Hotel Prague opened in 2003 and Aria Hotel Budapest opened in 2015 and was named the #1 ranked hotel in the world for guest satisfaction in the 2017 TripAdvisor Traveler's Choice Awards.

Room menu

Third Floor: Social Sciences
Fourth Floor: Language
Fifth Floor: Math and Science
Sixth Floor: Technology
Seventh Floor: The Arts
Eighth Floor: Literature
Ninth Floor: History
Tenth Floor: General Knowledge
Eleventh Floor: Philosophy
Twelfth Floor: Religion