travel42 Hotel Review: The Whitby Hotel

The Whitby Hotel travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

This 16-floor limestone and steel hotel, right off Fifth Avenue and within a two-block walk to Central Park and the Museum of Modern Art, shows that English style can live harmoniously in midtown Manhattan. As Firmdale Hotels' second New York outpost, Kit Kemp's signature colorful-modern design is just as much at home near the Upper East Side as it is in SoHo.

Named after the English fishing village that inspired writers such as Bram Stoker, this Whitby f...