Ocean liner in the middle of New York City? The Maritime Hotel, glamorous Chelsea hotel, once the headquarters for the National Maritime Union, is one of New York’s hipster hangouts, owing as much to its location (just off the Meatpacking District) as to the charms of the hotel itself. This is not a traditional hotel, by any stretch — all rooms face westward, looking over the Hudson and New Jersey through five-foot porthole windows. The rooms are compact, but well-designed, with built-in furniture, so that all the necessities (storage space, work desk, 20 in. flat-screen TV) easily fit into the tiny space, and wireless internet, naturally, takes no space at all. The real action, of course, is in the public spaces, from the parade of models and actors in the lobby to La Bottega, the Italian bistro with its 10,000-square-foot terrace — the largest outdoor space in any New York hotel. And Midtown’s glamorous Asian bistro Tao has taken over the hotel’s enormous subterranean space.