Lonely Planet Review
Once home to the Chemists Club (and still boasting the swirling marble staircase and beaux-arts facade of the 1903 building), the Dylan is now a house of style with 108 rooms done up in lavenders, greens and sky blues.
With full-marble bathrooms, curtains hanging from the ceiling by small chains, cube-like arm chairs and 70cm (27.5inch) TVs showing on-demand movies, it's certainly classy livin' at the Dylan - more for those thinking opera or martinis than the Naked Cowboy and 'I love NY' T-shirts. It's great value (relatively), though the sombre lighting in rooms and halls can be a little too dark for some. Best is the 'alchemy suite' - originally designed in the 1930s as a mock medieval lab. The lush lobby, with low settees and stools (subject to - at least occasionally - Motley Crüe on the speakers), faces a mini replica of The Charging Bull, the stock-exchange sculpture by Arturo Di Modica, now at Bowling Green in Lower Manhattan. The ground-floor Chemist Club is a classy clubhouse restaurant with breakfast and a seafood tower of oysters, clams and shrimp. There's also a fitness centre.
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Robert Reid