New York-New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas N-R
New York-New York Hotel & Casino
3790 Las Vegas Boulevard South,
Las Vegas, Nevada 89109-4327,
United States
Phone: (702) 740-6969
Website: newyorknewyork.com
About the Casino
The hotel opened in 1997 and immediately raised the bar for hotel theatrics. Start with the exterior – it has a recreation of the New York City skyline with 1/3 scale replicas (as high as 45 stories) of the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the New York Public Library, and Ellis Island to name a few. There’s also a Statue of Liberty complete with faux rust stains and the Brooklyn Bridge and miniature scale fireboats that spray water.
It is quite an accomplishment both visually and artistically but apparently the designers didn’t think the place looked quite busy enough so they threw in a roller coaster that winds in and around the buildings.
The front of the hotel is getting a big facelift throughout 2014 with a new outdoor, Strip-side dining, retail, and park area between it and neighboring Monte Carlo that includes, among other things, a Hershey’s Chocolate World and a 20,000 seat arena behind the two hotels. You can read more about that here.
The inside used to be just as fun with several blocks of Greenwich Village streets complete with graffiti covered mailboxes and steam coming out of the manhole covers in the cobblestones and a big casino made to look like Central Park with trees, gazebos, foot bridges, and babbling brooks.
Note the key words in that sentence: used to be.
Just like they have de-Egyptified (it’s a word!) Luxor, likewise they have de-Gothamized New York-New York, stripping the interior of some of its wacky Big Apple detail and replacing it with a more modern look and feel. The Greenwich Village area is still there but the bulk of the casino has been completely redone. Don’t get me wrong, it’s pretty and all that, with sleek lines, cool colors, eye-catching patterns and textures… but it used to be the most distinctive casino in town and now it’s just another place to gamble.
See full review of New York-New York courtesy of Rick Garman's Vegas4Visitors.com
