Inside The Manner – a new hotel to call home in Manhattan

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Set on a tree-lined street at the edge of New York’s SoHo, 97-room The Manner is looking to reignite the downtown luxury hotel scene in a very un-hotel-like way. The brainchild of Amar Lalvani, executive chairman of Standard International, the hipster parent company of The Standard and Bunkhouse Hotels brands, it’s named after the “manner” of hospitality he…