Since the beginning, we've been keeping track of the vibrant hotel scene in New York—where to get killer views of Central Park, where the best rooftop bars are, and how to save money by staying in outer borough places like Brooklyn and Queens.

But until now, we've heard very little from that other NYC borough: the Bronx. A real estate developer has been busy working on a new 61-room hotel with kind of a cool historical background: the building originally opened as the Bronx Opera House in 1913, and hosted acts like Harry Houdini, George Burns and the Marx Brothers over the years.