Turnkey Award-Winning Property. Recent 2.5M+ upgrade throughout the entire building. Centrally located in the heart of the epicenter of lower Manhattan. Apartment style suites with kitchens, more than half of our rooms have balconies. All new furnishings as of September 2001. The Historic Blue Moon is the hotel for the arts, acknowledged by National Geographic “One in 150 in the Western Hemisphere To Check Into” , ), NY Magazine, Citysearch, and Rizzoli’s Best 100 Little Hotels. “History and Luxury collide in a Lower East Side Hotel filled with artful details from an original tenement.” – Citi Search “A refreshing change from the shiny high-rises popping up downtown, the Blue Moon sits in an 1879 tenement that’s been painstakingly restored to reflect its origins.” – Sandra Ramani, New York Magazine “Forging the past vibrantly...Randy spent five years transforming the former Orchard Street tenement into one of Manhattan’s more captivating new small hotels.” – John Freeman Gill, International Herald Tribune “Manhattan will always have its sprawling, soulless mega-hotels. And if you like staying at a Hyatt or a Hilton, that’s fine. But a number of New York innkeepers have decided in the last few years that some of us might want something other than Room 29768.” – John Horn, L.A. Times We confidently assert that our rooms are the biggest and best rooms on the Lower East Side.