{"id":150171,"date":"2026-03-02T22:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/150171\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T22:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:02:07","slug":"swanky-33-story-hotel-coming-to-midtown-nyc-with-restaurant-by-celebrity-chef-rocco-dispirito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/150171\/","title":{"rendered":"Swanky 33-story hotel coming to Midtown NYC with restaurant by celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manhattan\u2019s next new, high-profile hotel opens on March 10 at 32 W. 48th St. \u2014 the Kimpton Era Midtown, a brand of global giant IHG Hotels &amp; Resorts.<\/p>\n<p>Extell, which is putting up all kinds of buildings all over the grid, developed the 33-story tower with 529 guest rooms.<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan\u2019s next new, high-profile hotel opens next week at 32 W. 48th St. \u2014 the Kimpton Era Midtown. Rocco DiSpirito\u2019s\u00a0Italian-American themed restaurant, Bar Rocco, above. Inc Architecture &amp; Design<\/p>\n<p>IHG\u2019s web site describes the inn\u2019s rooms as \u201cpetite but brimming with character.\u201d The project has four food and beverage venues including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/02\/13\/how-celebrity-chef-rocco-dispirito-made-his-stunning-comeback\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rocco DiSpirito\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0Italian-American themed restaurant, Bar Rocco. The project also includes casual cafe The Parlor, Latin steakhouse Amasa and rooftop izakaya Jade Rabbit, all managed by hospitality company Apiici.<\/p>\n<p>The gleaming tower brings more glass\u00a0to the long block between Fifth and Sixth avenues, which remains a mix of modern and prewar structures.<\/p>\n<p> The project has four food and beverage venues. Chef Rocco DiSpirito, above. Zandy Mangold<\/p>\n<p>Casual cafe The Parlor Inc Architecture &amp; Design<\/p>\n<p>The rooftop izakaya Jade Rabbit Inc Architecture &amp; Design<\/p>\n<p>One older venue that happily survived the Kimpton\u2019s five-year construction is long-lived\u00a0Szechanese restaurant Wu Liang Ye next door. When Extell bought air rights above the four-story building in 2018, Extell chief Gary Barnett told us the purchase wouldn\u2019t affect or hurt the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>He was true to his word. Now that scaffolding is down, Wu Liang Ye\u2019s entrance up a tall stoop is easily visible again for the first time since 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan\u2019s next new, high-profile hotel opens on March 10 at 32 W. 48th St. \u2014 the Kimpton Era&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[288,290,810,360,9,56,63,65,64,1491,3274,821],"class_list":{"0":"post-150171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-celebrity-chefs","10":"tag-hotels","11":"tag-midtown","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-real-estate","18":"tag-realty-check","19":"tag-restaurants"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}