The 5 best new spas and wellness centers in NYC

From the Upper East side to the Flatiron District and everywhere in between, New Yorkers and out-of-towners have no shortage of luxe new beauty and wellness havens to explore. Offering ice baths, mega-watt celebrity smiles, high-tech facials and even a dip into “manifesting abundance” and sound therapy, there’s something for everyone. 

Cast in umpteen soothing shades of greige, this industrial-chic new “social self-care” oasis in the Flatiron District is all about heavy duty holistic treatments and basta to the beauty. So while you won’t find Botox at Remedy Place, cupping and cryo abound. A celeb-approved import from West Hollywood, the 7,200-square-foot brainchild of functional medicine doc Jonathan Leary has already lured Kim Kardashian, who braved the “6 Minute Club” shortly after the club’s September opening. Picture an ice bath studio in which fearless types pick a favorite song, take a deep breath, plunge into 39-degree water and wait for the dopamine spike to kick in. Brrr.

The pairing of New York’s Carlyle Hotel with the storied Swiss skin care and perfume brand Valmont is a match made in swanky, old-world heaven. In addition to the street-level La Maison Valmont, the brand’s first flagship boutique in the US, there’s the Valmont Spa on the hotel’s third floor, offering an array of massages, body treatments and a menu of staggeringly expensive facials. How pricey, you ask? They start at $375 for 50-minute numbers like “Energy of the Glaciers” and “Lift From the Peaks,” and climb to a stratospheric $1,500 for the 120-minute, two-therapist “Only at the Carlyle” extravaganza.

What do you do if you’re “dentist to the stars” Michael Apa and you somehow get your mitts on an additional floor adjacent to Apa Aesthetic New York? You give it the private-entrance, VIP treatment, natch. The newly opened sixth-floor space was designed by Kenneth Park Architects, known for its work for Balenciaga and Dior, and is luxed-up with copious artwork, Brunello Cucinelli cashmere throws, skin care by Dr. Barbara Sturm and Beats noise-canceling headphones — so you can Zen out in the waiting room until you get whisked away for your movie-star smile makeover.

Class is in session at Sage + Sound, the newly opened, 5,000-square-foot “wellness neighbor” on the Upper East Side. Co-founded by mindfulness mavens and decades-long pals Lacey Tisch and Lauren Zucker, it houses a dedicated space dubbed “The Study,” where life coach and director of programming Ryan Haddon will oversee a curriculum rich in all manner of sound bathing, breath work and “manifesting abundance” classes. Even a mani-pedi at the on-site Sundays nail salon promises a meditative time-out. Also on tap are Isle of Us, a cafe-meets-market by NYC restaurateur Lisle Richards, as well as facials and skin treatments by legacy beauty brands Biologique Recherche and Tracie Martyn.

Unlike beauty emporiums offering everything from eyebrow microblading to bikini waxes, Silver Mirror does one thing and one thing only: facials. Its new Bryant Park location (joining two in Manhattan and one in Washington, DC) follows the company’s monthly membership model of $76 for one 30-minute facial, or $116 for one 50-minute facial. Add-ons, such as microneedling, custom jelly mask or spot-tightening with a PureLift device, run extra. Not quite ready to commit? À la carte treatments are also an option. SilverMirror.com

Despite its moniker, SkinCeuticals SkinLab by Tribeca MedSpa is actually ensconced on the UES. The newest SkinLab location (there are eight others sprinkled throughout the country) serves up a roster of medical facials, injectables and take-it-up-a-notch offerings like ultherapy, radiofrequency and thread lifts. And of course there’s a killer retail area, stocked with such SkinCeuticals classics as CE Ferulic and Blemish + Age Defense, as well as Dermablend, the highly regarded corrective makeup line.