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Nine Orchard
New York City, New York, United States · Independent · Grand Luxury
Nine Orchard occupies the 1912 Jarmulowsky Bank Building at Canal and Orchard Streets, and when Sender Jarmulowsky announced it in a 1911 trade publication he promised it would be the East Side's first strictly high-class tall bank and office building. His immigrant bank failed in a run in 1914, and a century later the tower became a 116-room hotel that won an AHEAD Americas award for hotel conversion, and MICHELIN Two Keys in 2025.
- 116 rooms
- Opened 2022
- Neighborhood: Two Bridges
- Rooms from 230 sq ft (21 m²)
About Nine Orchard
- Nine Orchard occupies the 1912 Jarmulowsky Bank Building at Canal and Orchard Streets on the Lower East Side.
- In 1911, Sender Jarmulowsky promised his new building would be the East Side's first strictly high-class tall bank and office building.
- The Jarmulowsky bank, a lifeline for immigrants, collapsed in a run in 1914.
- The conversion won an AHEAD Americas award for Hotel Conversion, and MICHELIN gave the hotel Two Keys in 2025.
- Entry-level rooms start at 230 sq ft (21 m²).
History
The twelve-story building at the corner of Orchard Street and Canal Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side was built in 1912 as the Jarmulowsky Bank, designed by the architectural firm Rouse and Goldstone in the Beaux-Arts style. Sender Jarmulowsky, the building's patron, had arrived in New York from Russian Poland in 1873 and built himself into a significant figure in the Eastern European Jewish immigrant community — a banker, a philanthropist, a founder of the Eldridge Street Synagogue, and an advocate for Jewish businesses to close for Shabbat. He was known as the East Side's J.P. Morgan.
When Jarmulowsky announced the construction of the building in a 1911 trade publication, he promised it would be the East Side's first strictly high-class tall bank and office building — a temple of capitalism rising from the tenement skyline just as the Jewish Daily Forward building, the neighborhood's temple of socialism, was going up at nearly the same moment. The building opened in 1912, its Beaux-Arts limestone and terracotta banking hall a two-story space with vaulted ceilings, classical columns, and large windows that still recalls Grand Central Terminal, which had opened a year earlier. Sender Jarmulowsky died three weeks after his bank building opened. His sons took over and the results were catastrophic: in 1917, with wartime disruption preventing immigrants from sending money to family in Europe, depositors rioted outside the bank, the institution failed, and two Jarmulowsky sons were arrested for fraudulent activities.
The building then descended through a long succession of industrial and commercial uses: garment manufacturers in the 1920s, a piano manufacturer from the 1940s through the 1960s, East Asian sewing factories in later decades, and by the 1990s a mixture of artist lofts, sweatshops, and various informal operations. DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners purchased the building in 2011 for $41 million and spent years working toward a conversion before architect Ron Castellano — who had previously redesigned the adjacent Jewish Daily Forward building into luxury condominiums — undertook the hotel renovation. Nine Orchard opened in June 2022 as a 116-room hotel, with the original two-story banking hall restored to something approaching its 1912 grandeur as the Swan Room cocktail lounge: teller booths replaced by velvet couches, but the vaulted ceilings, columns, stone carvings, and original clock intact. MICHELIN awarded Nine Orchard Two Keys in its 2025 guide, recognizing a project that turned one of the Lower East Side's most charged buildings — a place of immigrant aspiration, financial ruin, industrial labor, and eventual neglect — into the most compelling new-old hotel in downtown New York.
The setting
Nine Orchard occupies the 1912 Jarmulowsky Bank Building at Canal and Orchard Streets — a 12-story Beaux-Arts landmark by Rouse and Goldstone that was the tallest building on the Lower East Side, commissioned as a monument to immigrant aspiration. Meticulously restored with original blueprints, its ornamental ceilings, pink Tennessee marble floors, and domed rooftop tempietto have been returned to splendor. The surrounding Lower East Side — where Eastern European and Chinese immigrant communities layered generations of urban life — has evolved into one of Manhattan's most vibrant neighborhoods for independent dining and emerging culture, giving this hotel a depth of historical context few luxury addresses in the city can approach.
Restaurants and bars
- Corner Bar — Bar
Amenities
- Pet-friendly
Awards
- MICHELIN Two Keys (2026)
- AHEAD Americas Hotel Conversion (2023)
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