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The Ludlow
180 Ludlow St, New York, NY 10002
Lowest upcoming
$306
10 Aug 2026
Highest upcoming
$1,100
16 Jul 2026
Median nightly
$517
across 365 upcoming days
Cheapest week
7 to 13 Aug
37% below annual median
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Cheapest week ahead: 7–13 Aug 2026
at $328/night
(37% below median)
Review
Condé Nast Readers' Choice 2019
Character and identity
The Ludlow plants itself squarely in the Lower East Side and channels the neighbourhood back at you: brick walls, low leather sofas, a fireplace that actually roars, and a lobby bar that doubles as a working-and-drinking room for downtown locals. Across 175 rooms, the design language runs to wooden four-poster beds, velvet chairs, dark wood floors and white-tiled bathrooms with brass fixtures and mosaic floors. Dirty French, the in-house restaurant, still pulls a crowd at dinner and weekend brunch, and an adjacent garden extends the lobby scene outdoors in warm weather.
Who's it for
Best for:
Design-minded travellers who want to be in the thick of downtown Manhattan and treat the hotel as both base and social space. Couples and solo visitors who value a cool lobby scene, a strong bed, and rooms that feel like a sanctuary after a day pounding the LES, Chinatown and the East Village.
Should look elsewhere:
Families and anyone needing space: entry-level Studio rooms and bathrooms are frankly small. Travellers wanting a full spa, multiple dining outlets or a quieter, polished uptown register will find the offer thin, and the gritty street scene outside is part of the deal.
Bottom line
What you're really buying here is location and atmosphere: a genuinely downtown hotel where the lobby bar, fireplace and garden feel like neighbourhood fixtures rather than hotel set-dressing. Book it if you want to live in the LES rather than visit it; size up from a Studio if you need room to spread out, and aim for a street-facing window.
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180 Ludlow St, New York, NY 10002
New York, United States · 40.7219° N, 73.9872° W
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