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Lightstone Completes $1 Billion Apartment Purchase in Greater Detroit
Crain's 2025 Best Places to Work in NYC
Moxy & AC Hotel Downtown Los Angeles Wins ALIS Development of the Year Award 2023
2025 Commercial Observer Power 100: David Lichtenstein and Mitchell Hochberg
Citigroup Provides $82M for Seattle-Area Mall Acquisition
Moxy Hotels Most Awarded Brand in NYC & Top Hotel in DTLA
Awards & Accolades
Lightstone consistently strives to be forward-thinking and innovative in the world of hospitality and real estate development, and we're proud to receive recognition for the work we do.
Winner: Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards 2025
Condé Nast Traveler
Crain’s 2025 Best Places to Work in NYC
Crain's New York Business
Winner—Housing (Over 5 Floors) (Built)
Rethinking The Future Awards 2025
Gold Badge – One of the Best Hotels in the USA
US News & World Report 2025
Crain’s 2024 Best Places to Work in NYC
Crain's New York Business
Winner: Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards 2024
Condé Nast Traveler
Finalist: Small Corporate Office Category
2024 NYCxDESIGN Awards
Finalist: Hotel Public Spaces (Budget/Select Service)
Hospitality Design
Winner: 2023 Development of the Year in the Select/Limited Service
The Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS)
Silver HSMAI Adrian Award Winner: New Opening/Launch Category
Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International
Silver HSMAI Adrian Award Winner: New Opening/Launch Category
Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International
Honorable Mention Winner: Multifamily Housing Category
Architect Magazine: 2023 Residential Architect Design Awards
Finalist: Best Domestic Chain Hotel
2023 Interior Design's Best of Year Awards
Winner: 2023 Best Hotel Midscale
Gold Key Awards
Crain’s 2023 Best Places to Work in NYC
Crain's New York Business
Winner: Restaurant Category, Sake No Hana
2023 AHEAD Americas Award
Finalist: Bar, Club or Lounge Category, Silver Lining
2023 AHEAD Americas Award
Winner: Hotel Category, Moxy Lower East Side
Interior Design Magazine 2023 NYCxDESIGN Awards
Award Winner: Multi-Unit Housing
2023 NYCxDESIGN Awards
2022 Best of Design Award: Honorable Mention, Residential—Multi-Unit
The Architect's Newspaper
Best of Year Award, Multi-Unit Housing
2022 Interior Design's Best of Year Awards
Winner: Travel Weekly Magellan Award Gold Winner
Travel Weekly
Winner: Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards 2022
Condé Nast Traveler
Winner: Developer of the Year
CONNECT 2020 Marriott International
Winner: Top 25 Hotels in New York City
Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards 2021
Winner: 2020 Best Nightclub/Lounge, Little Sister
Gold Key Awards
Winner: 2020 Best Guestroom Focused Service
Gold Key Awards
Winner: 2020 Hospitality Design Award for Best Select-Service Hotel
Hospitality Design
Winner: Top 25 Hotels in New York City
Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards 2020
Finalist: Best Club/Bar Design Category, Little Sister
SBID International Design Awards 2020
Finalist: Best Hotel Public Space Design Category, Moxy East Village
SBID International Design Awards 2020
Top 10 Winner: Best Budget-Friendly Hotel Brand
2020 USA TODAY 10Best Readers' Choice AWARDS
Finalist: International Hotel Category, Little Sister
2020 RESTAURANT AND BAR DESIGN AWARDS—Shortlist
International Residential Architecture Awards 2020
The Architecture Community
Winner: Bar, Club, or Lounge Category, Little Sister
2020 AHEAD Americas Award
Finalist: Hospitality Interiors, Little Sister
2020 Design Week Awards
Finalist: Hospitality Interiors, Cathédrale
2020 Design Week Awards
Winner: Multi-Unit Residential Building
2020 NYCxDESIGN Awards
Finalist: Hotel Category, Moxy East Village
2020 NYCxDESIGN Awards
Project Finalist: Small Restaurant Category, Cathédrale
2020 NYCxDESIGN Awards
Project Finalist: Bar/Lounge Category, Alphabet Bar & Café
2020 NYCxDESIGN Awards
Finalist: Bar, Club, + Lounge, Little Sister
16TH ANNUAL HOSPITALITY DESIGN AWARDS
Finalist: Select-Service Public Space, Alphabet Bar and Café
16TH ANNUAL HOSPITALITY DESIGN AWARDS
Finalist: Select-Service Hotel
16th Annual Hospitality Design Awards
Winner: Best Urban Hotels in 2018
Wallpaper Magazine
Gold in the Hospitality – Overall-Midscale/Resort Category
Travel Weekly Magellan Awards
Best Micro Hotel
Surface Travel Award
Best Hotel Focused Service – Excellence in Hospitality Design 2019
Gold Key Awards
Best Guestroom Focused Service – Excellence in Hospitality Design 2019
Gold Key Awards
Winner: Best Façade
2019 ARCHITECT NEWSPAPER BEST OF DESIGN AWARDS
Best Residential High-Rise Architecture New York
INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY AWARDS
Award of Merit Special Recognition for Unique Exposed Architectural/ Structural Concrete
2018 Roger H. Corbetta Awards Program
Winner: BQDA Queens People’s Choice Award
American Institute of Architects (AIA) Brooklyn + Queens Design Awards 2018
Winner: 2017 Development of the Year Select/Limited Service
The Americas Lodging Investment Summit (ALIS)
Winner: BQDA Award of Merit People’s Choice Award
American Institute of Architects (AIA) Brooklyn + Queens Design Awards 2017