Many tourists in visit to New York would like to remain near the clubs and of the restaurants of Lower East Side and the districts of the center but until now, they offered few possibilities of lodging, with share of small hotels and some rooms of hosts scattered that and there.

It is only in 2004, with the opening of the hotel of Rivington, that this possibility was offered to the avid travellers of a certain luxury. At the time, the THOR was the subject of many articles because of its architecture. This slightly bluish tower of glass exploded in the middle of the buildings of five floors and the buildings XIX th which surrounded it. Since a handle of others turns of glass pushed in the neighbourhoods, and that others are announced, it shocks much less.