travel42 Hotel Review: The Beekman, a Thompson Hotel

The Beekman, a Thompson Hotel travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

In Lower Manhattan in the "New Downtown," on a narrow street near the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, two blocks from the Fulton Center and a 10-minute walk to the One World Trade Center, this 10-story Queen Anne building is a marvelous work of accidental preservation. Known as Temple Court, this was the first high-rise building with elevators in Manhattan.

Located on the site of the debut performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet (this area was once the city's or...