사진 확대 Lotte New York Palace, a representative New York landmark hotel.
1882 in the middle of midtown Manhattan, New York. A mammoth-class hotel with 909 rooms and 20 banquet halls that could not be imagined at the time stands tall. Lotte New York Palace, a 140-year-old New York City-designated cultural asset and representative New York landmark hotel.
Lotte Hotel & Resort has this “heart” with heritage and symbolism penetrating New York’s history in 2015.
Lotte New York Palace is called the “second White House” at all. There is a reason. Lotte New York Palace is the busiest place in the U.N. General Assembly season every September. It is to greet leaders and diplomatic missions from around the world who flock to receive the energy of this hotel, which is the heart of New York.
This year, it continues to be a “second White House” by serving as a stage for major diplomatic schedules of leaders and senior government officials, including the U.S. president.
Built in 1882, Lotte New York Palace, which has a historic villa apartment and a modern tower building, currently has 909 rooms, 23 meeting rooms, and banquet rooms. As it is nestled in midtown, where the UN headquarters, major diplomatic missions, and global companies are concentrated, it is the best place to carry out international events and top diplomatic schedules.
Naturally, diplomatic envoys flocking to the event and the 0th-ranked stay place for heads of state from each country are here. It’s not just the UN General Assembly. Lotte New York Palace’s differentiated competitiveness is the experience of large-scale diplomatic events that it has gained by welcoming heads of state, royal family members, and major international envoys during various summits.
“National protocol protocols, international service manners, and situational response manuals have been acquired along with the hotel’s history,” a Lotte Hotel & Resort official said. “The strength is to provide careful and high-quality services through systematic pre-training and mock training based on this.”
Thorough security and privacy are the attractions of this place as top figures stay. It is evaluated that it provides safe customized protocol services while flexibly controlling space and movement in the hotel in consideration of individual schedules and security conditions.
Mammoth-class facilities are also in power. It has 23 meeting rooms and banquet spaces in a space of about 30,000 square feet (2,787 m², 840 pyeong), which can accommodate not only the security team but also media officials in one place. Another strength is the ability to hold a variety of side events from large-scale banquets to small closed-door meetings.
MITANI New York, a New York branch of Sushi Mitani, a sushi restaurant in Tokyo, Japan, which is called the pride of Japanese sushi, is also on the first floor.
Sushi Mitani is an authentic sushi restaurant based in Yotsuya, Tokyo. It is a specialty that you have to wait more than an hour even if you open it. Mitani, who has long been highly praised for its signature pairing “Mitani Marriage,” which harmonizes champagne, wine, sake and cold brew tea along with sophisticated sushi technology, is also gaining popularity here by showing a differentiated dining experience.
Lotte Hotel & Resort is also continuing its investment to secure long-term business value. Following the acquisition of the New York Palace Hotel building in 2015, it even purchased the hotel site in December 2025, converting Lotte New York Palace into a “completely owned asset.”
Recently, it is also strengthening its local competitiveness through cooperation with ‘Highgate’, a global hotel management company. It plans to leverage Highgate’s North American hotel operations and sales network while expanding partnerships in various fields such as global sales and distribution, technical cooperation, and talent exchange.
An official from Lotte Hotel & Resort emphasized, “We plan to solidify our position in the New York luxury hotel market with a differentiated strategy that combines gourmet and cultural contents.”
[Shin Ik-su Travel Reporter]