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Just in time for Travel Week, our sister site has updated their guide to NYC's 18 Essential Hotels. "They range from the new and trendy (Williamsburg's Wythe) to the older, ritzier, and more architecturally classic (The Pierre, naturellement) to the ones that are neighborhood gamechanges (the Standard's High Line-straddling outpost)." [Curbed NY]