220 Bowery and a glimpse inside one of the new hostel rooms
The former tenement building at 220 Bowery is undergoing a hostel conversion and is slated to open to guests some time next month, according to Bowery Boogie. The transformation of the 17,000-square-foot building, which also houses a restaurant supplies store on the ground floor, will create “a hospitality concept that embraces the deep cultural roots of the Bowery by providing affordable and stylish accommodations,” says a description on the official Facebook page of the upcoming Bowery House. Based on the pictures, that means super-small rooms that can’t fit anything larger than a cot to sleep on, much like its soon-to-be-competitor, Bowery’s Whitehouse Hotel of NY at 338-340 Bowery. [Bowery Boogie]