Nestled near Grand Central Station and the New York Public Library is one of the city’s most unique hotels. The Library Hotel is a 60  room boutique hotel on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, each of the ten residential floors is dedicated to a major category of the Dewey Decimal System and the rooms on that floor designed around a sub genre within the category.

The hotel caters to a mix of young and old, business types and the hip and nerdy crowd, drawn by the large reading room on the second floor, lined with floor to ceiling bookcases filled with classic and modern literature, and the complimentary wine and cheese in the evenings or fresh coffee and pastries throughout the rest of the day.

The rooftop floor plays host to three separate venues, the Writer’s Den comes complete with working fireplace and wraparound terrace and the Poetry Garden gives a place to sit and soak up the sun. Bookmarks Lounge turns into a rooftop bar offering stunning city views and literary inspired cocktails such as the Pulitzer and a Tequila Mockingbird.

The rooms are a little on the small side (though what rooms in New York aren’t) with standard rooms measuring 18 sq. metres,  Deluxe rooms come in at just over 23 sq. metres, if you are lucky enough to snare one of the Junior suites (one per floor) you can stretch out in the 32 sq. metres of space and the King Bed covered in Egyptian cotton sheets. Rooms start from USD$239.00 and include free breakfast and Wi-Fi.

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The Library Hotel Room Menu

• Third Floor: Social Sciences                                            Fourth Floor: Language
• 300.006 Law                                                                         400.006 Ancient Language
• 300.005 Money                                                                   400.005 Middle Eastern Language
• 300.004 World Culture                                                     400.004 Asian Language
• 300.003 Economics                                                           400.003 Germanic Language
• 300.002 Political Science                                                  400.002 Romance Language
• 300.001Communication                                                  400.001 Slavic Language

• Fifth Floor: Math and Science                                        Sixth Floor: Technology
• 500.006 Astronomy                                                         600.006 Health & Beauty
• 500.005 Dinosaurs                                                            600.005 Computers
• 500.004 Botany                                                                  600.004 Medicine
• 500.003 Zoology                                                                600.003 Management
• 500.002 Geology                                                                600.002 Manufacturing
• 500.001 Mathematics                                                       600.001 Advertising

• Seventh Floor: The Arts                                                    Eighth Floor: Literature
• 700.006 Fashion Design                                                  800.006 Mystery
• 700.005 Music                                                                     800.005 Fairy Tales
• 700.004 Photography                                                      800.004 Dramactic Literature
• 700.003 Performing Arts                                                800.003 Poetry
• 700.002 Paintings                                                              800.002 Classic Fiction
• 700.001 Architecture                                                       800.001 Erotic Literature

• Ninth Floor: History                                                           Tenth Floor: General Knowledge
• 900.006 Biography                                                            1000.006 New Media
• 900.005 Geography & Travel                                         1000.005 Journalism
• 900.004 Asian History                                                      1000.004 Museums
• 900.003 Oceanography                                                   1000.003 Encyclopedic Works
• 900.002 Ancient History                                                  1000.002 Almanacs
• 900.001 20th Century History                                       1000.001 Libraries

• Eleventh Floor: Philosophy                                            Twelfth Floor: Religion
• 1100.006 Love                                                                     1200.006 Ancient Religion (Mythology)
• 1100.005 Paranormal                                                       1200.005 Native American Religion
• 1100.004 Psychology                                                       1200.004 Germanic Religion
• 1100.003 Philosophy                                                        1200.003 New Age
• 1100.002 Ethics                                                                  1200.002 African Religion
• 1100.001 Logic                                                                    1200.001 Eastern Religion