How far is it, exactly?
About 0.7 miles, or a 15-minute walk. Memorial Sloan Kettering's main hospital sits at 1275 York Avenue, between 67th and 68th Streets. NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center is a block west and south of it, at 525 East 68th Street. We're at 341 East 62nd Street, between First and Second.
The walk is simple and flat: go east to First Avenue, north to 67th or 68th, then two blocks east to York. Fifteen minutes at a normal pace, more like twenty if you're not in a hurry or the weather is bad. In a cab or a car it's five minutes and often less, because you're going with the grid rather than across it. If someone in your group can't do the walk, that five-minute ride is the whole solution, and it's cheap.
Weill Cornell's main building is open 24 hours, with visiting hours currently listed as 7am to 9pm. Check with your own department before you plan around any of that, because units set their own rules and they change.
Why people book an apartment for this instead of a hotel room
Because treatment stays aren't three nights. They're eight days, or two weeks, or a month with gaps in the middle, and a hotel room stops working somewhere around day four.
The practical difference is the kitchen. Every apartment here has one, which means you control what gets eaten and when. That matters a lot if appetite is unpredictable, if there's a restricted diet involved, or if someone needs to eat at 5am before a procedure and nothing is open. It also means you're not paying for three restaurant meals a day for two weeks, which adds up faster than the room does.
The second difference is space. We have everything from studios up to the whole house, so a patient and one caregiver can have a studio, and a family that's rotating shifts can take a bigger apartment or two next to each other. A couple of our units, the two-bedroom two-bath and one of the penthouses, have a bathtub in one of the two bathrooms. That's a small thing until it isn't.
Third: we're set up for long stays. Ten days or a month is normal here, not an exception you have to negotiate.
The quiet part
East 62nd Street between First and Second is a residential block. There's no lobby, no key card, no front desk, and no line at reception at 11pm. You get your own front door and a code that we text you the day before you arrive, so you can come and go as you please without talking to anybody, at any hour, in whatever state the day has left you in.
We say that in our guides as a nice feature. For people who are here for a hospital, several have told us it's the actual reason they booked. Coming home from a long day at York Avenue and walking straight into your own apartment is different from crossing a hotel lobby.
The neighborhood cooperates too. Lenox Hill is genuinely quiet after about 9pm, and the blocks between us and the hospitals are mostly residential. Central Park's Fifth Avenue entrance at 60th Street is about an eight-minute walk in the other direction if you need twenty minutes of trees.
Practical things worth knowing
Groceries. There's real food shopping within a few blocks, which we've written up separately. Get it delivered on arrival day if you're coming in late.
When dates move. They do. Our cancellation policy is a full refund if you cancel more than 30 days out, so booking early for a scheduled procedure isn't a gamble. If the schedule shifts inside that window, text us and we'll do what we can.
What we don't have. No restaurant, no room service, no gym, no rooftop. We're an apartment building, not a hotel, and if you need a bellhop at 2am we're not it. We stock towels and Grown Alchemist shampoo, conditioner, and body wash in the bathrooms; we don't provide robes, so bring one if you want one.
Housekeeping. It works differently in an apartment than in a hotel; we've got a page on exactly how.
Getting here. The F and Q at Lexington Avenue/63rd Street is our closest subway, a few minutes' walk. We've also written up what time to leave for JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark, which is useful if you're flying in and out around appointments.
Pets. Allowed, with a policy. Several guests on long medical stays have brought a dog and been glad of it.
One honest note
We're not affiliated with any hospital, we don't have medical staff, and we can't hold medications or help with care. What we can do is give you a quiet apartment with a kitchen fifteen minutes from York Avenue, hand you your own front door, and answer a text at whatever hour you send it. If that's the piece you're missing, we're a good fit. If you need care on site, you want a facility that offers it, and we'd rather say so now than have you find out on arrival.