Ace Hotel

We turned to our friends at  to build our Local’s Guide to Brooklyn — an ode to the borough’s never-ending nooks and crannies, spotlighting newcomers alongside the stalwarts we still love. PI’s community of in-the-knowers helped fill it with the good stuff, then showed up to celebrate its release with a raucous Lobby party at .
 
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May, what a month. We launched our merch collab with by hosting tennis clinics in Kyoto; saw Summer Series return to with , and ; celebrated the small things — like the microbial marketplace curated by Byron Bay’s .books at , which brought together artists, independent publishers, sound archivists and designers working across culture and ecology; and hosted author and crypto skeptic (and forever Ryan from “The O.C.” in our eyes) for WIRED@Night at .

Photographer Guarionex Rodriguez, Jr. checks in from Ace Hotel Brooklyn for the latest edition of Frame of Reference. It’s a talk about parties, portraits, spring flowers and the people who make the city feel warm. Full Q&A on Room with a View, our Substack if you haven’t subscribed yet.

Our friends at celebrated their stacked third issue at ours with the usual — a n**e drawing class. Guided by .stevens, modeled, supplied the furniture, the carpet and illumination was courtesy of . The pleasure? That was all ours.

Pack the cooler, pitch the umbrella and pass the SPF — Ace Shop’s Summer 2026 Collection is here. Inspired by monogrammed luggage, site-specific flora, soft cottons blowing in a warm breeze and the indulgence of a well-done script, it is an all-out homage to preppy poolside attire. 
 
Shop at the Ace Hotel Shop via link in bio.

Keeping good company (Yayoi Kusama, Henry Moore, etc.) at .

on disquieting domesticity, throwing blankets around and more. Our friends at celebrated their stacked third issue at ours with the usual — a n**e drawing class. modeled, supplied the furniture, the carpet and illumination was courtesy of . The pleasure? That was all ours.

Have you met yet? .athens is the rooftop restaurant at , serving all manner of deliciousness as the sun sets.

A night well spent. We gathered for the opening of ’s new exhibition, “Planets In Transit” — a photographic series tracing the sweat, intimacy and liberatory movement that pulses across New York’s dance floors. Appropriately, the party featured a special DJ set by Guarionex himself as well as .

In collaboration with . The exhibition is on view through July 31 at The Gallery at Ace Hotel Brooklyn.

Photos by .