Stayed here recently for a long weekend. Had originally booked a few nights with a TSU applied, and then needed to come in a day earlier so made a separate booking for which the TSU wasn't available so was upgraded to a King room with terrace.

Overall, by the very generous curve on which one must grade NYC hotels, I thought it was a decent stay. I especially appreciated that TSUs upgraded to a "real" suite with separation between the bedroom and living room, which is not common in NYC, even if it is a railroad-style suite where the living room is on the interior with no windows.

The hotel did have a full suite of my least favorite features of "cool" hotel designs, including:

• No self-serve ice machines
• In the non-suite room, a ceiling-level window between the bathroom and the bedroom, making it hard for someone to use the bathroom at night without potentially disturbing a sleeping companion
• Barn doors on the bathroom
• An eclectic set of lamps that both don't provide enough light and each have a different way of turning on and off which must be deciphered

So without the suite upgrade, I would personally look elsewhere, but these issues were manageable enough as a tradeoff for having a real suite, especially combined with the current double night credits promo at Thompson hotels.

It is true that there aren't any views from this hotel and rooms face narrow streets or air shafts, but that is fairly common in NYC so I don't know that I really hold it against the hotel. The one place where the especially narrow FiDi streets work against it is the risk that getting Ubers and the like could be tricky because any amount of double parking or stopped vehicles snarls traffic in the area quickly. FiDi does have the advantage of many subway options in a few block radius, though it may be tricky to find all of them efficiently for those new to NYC.

A couple of other observations:

• As others helpfully let me know above, both the suite and the terrace room had a standard minibar fridge, which was fairly full of offerings but not weight-triggered and it was easy enough to move things around to make room for a moderate amount of personal items.
  
• Gym is about standard for a 4-star hotel with 8-10ish cardio machines plus a few weight machines and dumbbells up to 50lbs; I'd call it about the same as what I might expect in a smaller Westin, for example.
  
• Breakfast was very high quality, though small portions and a relatively small selection. The exact parameters of Globalist breakfast weren't clear but I think you could probably order more to overcome the portion sizes. I did not try it but the front desk also mentioned that room service breakfast was an option.
  
• The terrace room happened to be directly above the suite we had and was indeed the exact same total size, just with some of the space outside, taking advantage of a setback in the building. The standard suites are then located below that, taking advantage of the deeper building in that section to offer more space -- a technique which is also used in a number of other newer-build NYC hotels, like the Aloft and Sheraton in Brooklyn.
  
• The hotel is interestingly spread across 3 buildings, with the elevators and restaurant in a pretty old atrium building, then rooms spreading into another old building, and finally into the lower floors of a modern high-rise from 2014 (which is also where the front desk is located) ... but interestingly they did quite a bit of work to make the hotel feel seamless, so despite the fact that both of our rooms were located in the new building, it felt in many ways like we were staying in a creaky old hotel of the type that is common in London for example, complete with "vintage"-looking hallways and flickering lights. (The floors didn't actually creak but it felt like they wanted to?)