citizenM New York Bowery is located in New York's Lower East Side district, just minutes from the nightlife and restaurants of Bowery. The hotel is about an 8-minute walk from Bloomingdale's and less than a 20-minute walk from SoHo, Lower Manhattan and Little Italy. The hotel has a restaurant and a shared lounge.

All rooms have a desk, floor-to-ceiling windows, a flat-screen TV and a private bathroom with a rain shower. Rooms are equipped with a refrigerator and free WiFi.

Using the in-room iPad or the free citizenM app, all guests can control the room's lighting, blackout curtains, drapes, temperature, and TV and radio channels. Guests can connect their phone, tablet or laptop to the TV via Chromecast to watch streaming media from Netflix, Prime or Disney+ accounts (and many other accounts) (at no additional cost).

The hotel serves a buffet breakfast every day. canteenM is open 24/7 and features an open kitchen offering baked goods, light lunches and simple dinners. During the day, the hotel has a coffee bar, which turns into a cocktail bar at night.

Guests have access to a fitness centre. In partnership with MENDO bookstore, citizenM New York Bowery offers guests coffee table books in a variety of fields such as photography, fashion, travel and design.

Brooklyn Bridge is 1.7 km from citizenM New York Bowery, while One World Trade Center is 2.4 km from the property. The nearest airport is LaGuardia Airport, 14.4 km from the property.

Couples particularly like the location — they rated it 9.1 for a two-person trip.