"There’s plenty of flashy, ostentatious luxury to be found in New York, if that’s your style, but the Lowell, on Manhattan’s posh Upper East Side, presents an alternative vision. Around here there’s still some affection for an understated sort of luxury, and anyone who’s nonplussed by the Lowell’s lobby — where’s the soaring atrium, the million-dollar art installation? — need only bear this fact in mind." - Tablet Hotels