In a city where rooms can resemble a glorified wardrobe, these lodgings offer a welcome sense of space – and a hard-to-beat location.

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For context, boutique hotels were practically invented here. Typically built with 120 rooms or fewer, and characterized by strong, focused design identities, boutique hotels sprung up in the 1980s.