Located in Manhattan, a neighbourhood in New York, Riverside Tower Hotel is near a metro station. Manhattan Cruise Terminal and American Dream are worth checking out if an activity is on the agenda, while those in the mood for shopping can visit 5th Avenue and Times Square. Lincoln Center and American Museum of Natural History are not to be missed. Visit our New York travel guide
80 Riverside Dr., at 80th Street, New York, NY, 10024
What's nearby
Riverside Park
2 min walk - 0.2 km
Beacon Theater
8 min walk - 0.7 km
Central Park
11 min walk - 1.0 km
American Museum of Natural History
13 min walk - 1.1 km
Bloomingdale's
9 min walk - 0.8 km
Getting around
79 St. Station
4 min walk
New York W 32nd St. Station
6 min drive
LaGuardia Airport (LGA)
37 min drive
Restaurants
Zabar's
3 min walk
Nice Matin
5 min walk
Maison Pickle
6 min walk
Jake's Dilemma
5 min walk
Chipotle Mexican Grill
6 min walk
About this property
Riverside Tower Hotel
Hotel near Central Park
Close to American Museum of Natural History and Lincoln Center, Riverside Tower Hotel provides amenities such as a bar. Stay connected with free in-room WiFi.
You'll also enjoy the following perks during your stay:
A lift, a front desk safe and a 24-hour front desk
Tour/ticket information, concierge services and luggage storage
Room features
All 120 individually furnished rooms include comforts such as air conditioning, in addition to amenities such as free WiFi and safes.
No, only service animals are welcome at the property.
How much is parking at Riverside Tower Hotel?
This hotel doesn't offer parking.
What time is check-in at Riverside Tower Hotel?
Check-in start time: 3:00 PM; check-in end time: anytime.
What time is check-out at Riverside Tower Hotel?
Checkout is at noon.
Where is Riverside Tower Hotel located?
Located in Manhattan, this hotel is within a 15-minute walk of Central Park and American Museum of Natural History. Lincoln Center and Metropolitan Museum of Art are also within 1 mile (2 km). 79 St. Station is only a 4-minute walk and 86 St. Station (Broadway) is 8 minutes.
Can I cancel my reservation for free and receive a full refund?
Yes, this property offers free cancellation on selected room rates because flexibility matters! Please refer to the property cancellation policy on our site for more details about any exclusions or requirements.
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Reviews
Riverside Tower Hotel Reviews
7.0
Good
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7.4
Cleanliness
8.8
Location
7.8
Staff & service
6.0
Property conditions & facilities
Rating 10 - Excellent. 104 out of 608 reviews
10 - Excellent
104
Rating 8 - Good. 225 out of 608 reviews
8 - Good
225
Rating 6 - Okay. 180 out of 608 reviews
6 - Okay
180
Rating 4 - Poor. 51 out of 608 reviews
4 - Poor
51
Rating 2 - Terrible. 48 out of 608 reviews
2 - Terrible
48
Reviews
Verified review
8/10 Good
Verified traveller
12 Dec 2019
Liked: Cleanliness
Room clean and basic amenities available. Very good location. If you have an active day in the city it’s a good value. I’ll book again.
This property is in terrible need of a facelift! The location is very nice though.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2019
Verified review
6/10 Okay
Ann
7 Dec 2019
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Small rooms, old property, but clean with friendly, helpful staff. If you're looking for something fancy, this is not the place. If you're just looking for a place to stay in a decent neighborhood, relatively close to the subway and restaurants, Riverside Tower Hotel will meet your needs.
We had an excellent time with our stay with fantastic views and would definitely recommend this hotel. We will return and stay again here again in the future. Great location and near transportation, restaurants, shopping, entertainment and everything!
They do not explicitly mentioned they do not have parking included, which was a really bad start taking the consideration we had 14 hours road trip along with kids and my parents.
However one of the staff (an Asian guy, I believe his name was Afran) has taken out his own car from a public spot and gave it to me, and mentioned he would be fine. This was an amazing kindness gesture unfortunately you don’t see very often nowadays.
This guy for sure went an extra mile to satisfy customers, very good.
This is a great location but the rooms are very small.
Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2019
Verified review
8/10 Good
Corey
18 Aug 2019
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Stay #2 for a Yankee Vacation
This is my 2nd trip to this property. 2 adults, 1 - 10 year old, and 1 - 15 year old who is an adult in his size. We had 2 rooms with a connecting bathroom. 4 twin beds total - trundle beds! We were in NYC for 2 baseball games and some good food, so a room fit for a king was not needed. However, there was a small table, 2 chairs, a fridge, and microwave - this came in handy when we were too tired to go out and had food from Zabars in the room for a meal - 2 short blocks from hotel. The rooms are small, the beds are small, the rooms are old, the hotel is old, but I did find it clean. Window unit A/C worked well for us. The WIFI was more miss than hit, but the TV was working very well if we needed to be entertained or to check the weather and news. The staff was great. This property has 2 main selling points - location & price. A third, for me, would be 4 twin beds - great for our party. Location - Upper West Side, in a nice quiet neighborhood. 79th St 1 train is a 3 block walk. Yankee Stadium was a 30 minute subway trip and Penn Station was a 10 minute trip. Natural History Museum is an easy walk and Central Park as well. Across the street from the hotel is Riverside Park - a hidden gem to walk. And the my deciding factor - the price. NYC - 4 people, 4 beds, 2 very small rooms, Upper West Side. I would rather spend my money on activities and food and find a cheap, clean, ideally situated hotel, and that is what I have found in this property.
I liked the small room. It had the basic things I needed. My only problem was three days that I had smelly sheets placed on my bed. The first night it happened I ignored it because I thought it was just my imagination. The second night I took the sheet off my bed and wrapped up with a towel. The third night I called the front desk in the middle of the night to complain, and they sent me some clean sheets. I had the guy to smell the sheets so he could see that I was not being difficult. My stay was for two weeks, so I had not had this smelly sheet problem before. The first few nights of my stay I did wake up with a few bug bites.
The staff was very nice, and the location was excellent. The M5 bus stops right in front of the building on Riverside Drive, and it can take you to Harlem and Downtown Manhattan. That was a plus for me when the trains were unbearable. The air conditioner was a life saver because of the heat wave. It gave me life!
They say that this is not a good place for kids, well take it from me, it’s not. There was a baby on my floor that cried a lot. The walls are thin, so the cries of a baby will keep you up at night. Please don’t bring babies here. The elevators are very tiny and slow. I took the stairs a few times because I was just on the 8th floor. The elevators does not look wide enough to fit a wheelchair or those big bulky baby strollers.
Overall, I enjoyed my stay. I hope to stay here again in the future.
Found someone else’s dirty socks, when I stepped out of bed and on to them. Kinda gross
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019
Verified review
8/10 Good
Barbara
30 Jun 2019
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Great location close to subway with view of Hudson River! Rooms were very small but it was clean and the price was right.
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2019
Verified review
8/10 Good
Elizabeth
30 Jun 2019
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Great for the price
This Hotel is definitely no frills! It’s not. Updated and doesn’t have the amenities one would expect at a hotel. Its an old charming building and with that comes what one would expect from an old charming building. A rickety elevator a regular key for the doors a phone dating back to the 80’s :). However, the location is exceptional, the staff friendly and helpful. The room was cleaned well everyday. For upper west side New York you can’t beat the price. I recommend if you don’t need amenities.
2 pers kamer met uitschuifbed slechts geschikt voo
kamers zouden geschikt zijn voor 2 personen. met uitgeschoven bed kan of de (gedeelde) wc of de kamer en kastdeur niet meer open amper loopruimte!!
gedateerd hotel.
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2019
Verified review
8/10 Good
Andrew
26 Jun 2019
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Functional and affordable
Nothing exceptional or special about this place. But I need a clean, safe, functional hotel in a good area that did not cost an arm and a leg, and this fit the bill perfectly. Bed and bathroom were perfectly fine and functional, but small. I would not hesitate to come back to this place. Great value for the money, by NYC standards and the location cannot be beat
En härlig NY-vecka i bra område, nära T-bana för alla besök i Chelsea, Soho och Greenwich Village. Nära till bra restauranger på Amsterdam och Columbus, liksom till Central Park och crosstown bus. Nära Riverside Park med fint strandcafé vid Hudson River. Små rum, inga sällskapsrum, helt OK när man inte planerar tillbringa tid på hotellet.
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2019
Verified review
6/10 Okay
Verified traveller
13 Jun 2019
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
The hotel is conveniently located on the upper west side and the rates were about the lowest available for rooms with private bathrooms.
That said, it is a bare bones kind of place. The bed was comfortable and the room seemed clean; however, there was a big plumbing access hole in the bathroom wall (a jerry-rigged cover for it had fallen off and was sitting on the floor), and the bedside table was a folding tv tray table. The AC was about 4' from my head and was very loud. The door to the room is just a wooden hollow core door with no security lock--not sure how this meets code! The single room is tiny.
My room was very quiet once the AC was off.
Front desk staff were very nice and check in/check out was easy and quick. Zabar's is two blocks away if you want a quick breakfast or to get snacks for the little fridge in the room.