Named no. 6 best NYC hotel in the Condé Nast Traveler 2023 Readers' Choice Awards, Ink 48 Hotel is proud to have won the award in 2020, 2021 and 2022, too.
For nearly a century, this Hell’s Kitchen building has housed bold, creative types. In the 1930s, a theatrical printing press cranked out splashy posters for hits of the stage and screen from within our lofty space. The owner of that press, Joseph Henry Tooker, had ink in his blood. His father — known as Commodore Tooker — was a brash former newspaperman who took charge of a theatrical printing company after years of managing the Winter Garden Theatre and other starry venues of Victorian New York. In his spare time, Commodore oversaw a fleet of Hudson River steamboats. One of his passengers? Leaves of Grass poet Walt Whitman.
