Kim Kardashian stayed at Gansevoort Meatpacking during a New York visit in April 2012. Contemporaneous reporting identified the Meatpacking District property by name, described Kardashian inside a suite early in the morning and said her family was staying there. A dated Getty Images photograph independently places her arriving at the Gansevoort Hotel six days later.
Celebrity Hotels classifies this as a verified stay with evidence grade B. The conclusion is deliberately limited to the April 2012 visit. It does not mean that the hotel is Kardashian’s current New York preference or that every later appearance at the property involved an overnight booking.
The short answer
Hollywood Life published an on-the-ground report on April 24, 2012 that named Gansevoort Meatpacking NYC as the hotel where the Kardashian family was staying. The report did more than repeat an anonymous sighting: it described Kim awake in a bathrobe at 5 a.m., with her hair and makeup team on the hotel floor, and referred to someone visiting her suite. Those room-level details support an accommodation relationship rather than only a restaurant, rooftop or event visit.
Getty Images provides separate visual corroboration. Its April 30, 2012 caption identifies Kardashian arriving at the Gansevoort Hotel in New York. The photograph does not by itself prove that she slept there, because an arrival can also be a visit. It is useful when read alongside the earlier, explicit stay report because it independently confirms her presence at the named property during the same week.
E! News documented another Kardashian family departure from the Gansevoort Hotel in the Meatpacking District in June 2014. That later report is not evidence for the length of the 2012 booking, but it helps distinguish this property from another former Gansevoort-branded hotel that operated elsewhere in Manhattan.
Which Gansevoort hotel was it?
The property in this evidence is Gansevoort Meatpacking at 18 Ninth Avenue. In 2012 it was commonly called the Gansevoort Hotel or Gansevoort Meatpacking NYC. It is the existing hotel represented in the Celebrity Hotels New York guide.
This is not Gansevoort Park Avenue, the former sister property at 420 Park Avenue South. Kardashian and Kris Humphries were widely reported to have lived and filmed in a penthouse at that separate hotel in 2011. Those reports are strong, but they cannot be transferred to the Meatpacking hotel. This article relies instead on evidence that specifically names the Meatpacking property or the original Gansevoort Hotel.
What the evidence establishes
The evidence supports a stay at Gansevoort Meatpacking in April 2012. The strongest account identifies the exact branch, says the family was staying there and places Kardashian inside a suite at a time and in circumstances consistent with hotel accommodation. Independent professional photography then records her arriving at the hotel during the same visit.
The 2014 E! report establishes a separate later appearance at the same Meatpacking property. Because it describes a departure rather than a room booking, Celebrity Hotels treats it as supporting property identification and a later visit, not as proof of another overnight stay.
What remains uncertain
The accessible sources do not provide a booking confirmation, room number, exact check-in date or exact check-out date. They do not establish who paid for the accommodation or whether every family member occupied a room for the same number of nights. No photograph is reproduced here because the source images are commercially licensed or otherwise not documented for reuse.
The sources also do not prove that Kardashian routinely chooses this hotel today. The verified event is historical, and the hotel has since completed a major renovation. Current design, room categories and management details should not be used to reconstruct the conditions of the 2012 stay.
Evidence verdict
Verified: Kim Kardashian stayed at Gansevoort Meatpacking during an April 2012 New York visit. Contemporaneous room-level reporting and an independently published arrival photograph support the conclusion.
Also verified: E! News documented Kardashian and family members departing the Meatpacking property in June 2014, which supports a later visit but does not independently prove another overnight stay.
Not verified: The public material does not establish exact booking dates, the room used, the length of the stay or a current recurring preference.
The relationship receives evidence grade B because it rests on multiple independent professional publishers and direct recognizable visual evidence, rather than an accessible first-party statement from Kardashian or an official hotel guest confirmation.