From my experiences, I would say that the Four Seasons New York is the best in the city. Second best in my opinion would be the Ritz-Carlton Central Park. I found the Mandarin Oriental New York to be overall a bad hotel experience. Even though I stayed there a couple months after opening and being upgraded to a suite overlooking Central Park, I felt that the service was not up to par and the beds were as hard as rocks. The room was nice and had one of the best views I have ever experienced in New York, but one night for some reason all the calls in the hotel that should have been routed through the front desk suddenly were routed through the room. The reason why I was upgraded to the suite was because the first room I had had a shower that was improperly constructed and as a result, the water ended up overflowing in the bathroom. The room also was one of their better rooms and it felt like a broom closet. Also, they had one of the worst bed and breakfast packages I have ever experienced at a hotel. At the FS for example, if your breakfast bill ended up being 65 dollars or so for breakfast for two people, FS covered it completely. The Mandarin Oriental charges you if you go over their daily breakfast number allocation which is I think 45 dollars for two people. The front desk never told me about this until I was reviewing the bill. I have stayed at the Pierre three times when it was a Four Seasons. The service was fantastic and it had an old New York feeling but the rooms were old, small, and cramped. The nicest thing about the rooms were the beds but beyond that the rooms were lousy. I would not stay at the Pierre unless they have done a major renovation since I think it is a waste of money to pay 500+ for the Pierre when you could stay at the Ritz-Carlton for an even better experience.