On the Upper West Side, 171 upgraded rentals are being put on the market week by week over the next few months at the Windermere West End, an apartment hotel at West End Avenue and 92nd Street that has been through hard times.

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The Glasgow outpost of the Hotel du Vin chain occupies three terraced houses in the West End.

BBC: Mini guide to Glasgow, Scotland

In Boston's West End sits the recently renovated (and renamed) 80-room The Boxer hotel, with its eclectic yet conservative decor of Old World antiques and cleverly modern fixtures.

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