Most massage studios in Midtown Manhattan take their last appointment at 7:00 or 8:00 PM. That works if your day ends at six. It does not work if you are still in a meeting at 7:15, or if the only hour that is genuinely yours starts after the office empties out. The search that follows — "massage near me," typed at 8:40 PM on a Tuesday — usually returns a map full of places that closed forty minutes ago.
Yes — Authentic Thai Massage NYC at 501 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2001, is open every day from 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM, with the last appointment starting at 9:00 PM. A 60-minute session is $149.90, 90 minutes is $209.90, and 120 minutes is $299.90, all inclusive of sales tax.
We are minutes from Bryant Park, Grand Central and Times Square, so the studio sits inside the commute rather than beside it. What follows is a practical guide to booking around a working schedule — which hours are realistic, how long to allow, and what modality suits a late session.
Evening availability is the constraint because most Midtown studios staff to a commercial core that empties between 6:00 and 7:30 PM — which creates a narrow, heavily contested window right at 6:00 PM and almost nothing after 8:00.
So the 6:00 PM slot is the hardest booking of the week, while 8:00 and 8:30 PM are frequently open on two days' notice. If your schedule is unpredictable, aiming later is not a compromise — it is the easier reservation, and the studio is quieter.
There is a physiological argument for going later too. A massage at 6:00 PM after a day that has not finished mentally often does not land — you spend the first twenty minutes still composing an email in your head. A session that starts after the day is genuinely closed produces a deeper downshift.
A 60-minute massage is realistically a 75 to 80-minute commitment door to door, and a 90-minute massage is about two hours. The extra time is arrival, intake, changing, and a few unhurried minutes afterward. A typical weekday evening from a Midtown office:
Catching a train out of Grand Central? Work backwards from the departure board and give yourself twenty minutes from the studio door to the platform — ten of those are the walk, the rest is the concourse.
Grand Central Terminal is about a ten-minute walk east along 42nd Street, and the Fifth Avenue–Bryant Park station is roughly two minutes on foot. We are at 501 Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street — minutes from Bryant Park, Grand Central and Times Square.
That puts the 4, 5, 6, 7, S and Metro-North within a short walk, and the 7, B, D, F and M essentially at the door. If you commute in from Westchester, Connecticut or the Hudson Line, a session before an evening train means you board already unwound. More in our guide to massage near Grand Central and Bryant Park.
One note: crosstown traffic on 42nd Street between 6:00 and 8:00 PM is worse than the subway. If a car app quotes eighteen minutes for a short hop, walk it.
For a late session, choose Swedish if the goal is sleep, Thai if you have been folded into a desk all day, and deep tissue or Ashiatsu if you can point at a specific area that hurts. All four run $149.90 for 60 minutes, $209.90 for 90 minutes, and $299.90 for 120 minutes.
Swedish massage is the most reliable choice for a late session. The long, even strokes settle the nervous system rather than stimulate it, which is exactly what you want at 8:30 PM. Sixty minutes at $149.90 is enough.
Traditional Thai massage undoes the shape a desk puts you in — closed hips, forward shoulders, a compressed thoracic spine — in a way table work does not fully reach. It is fully clothed, on a mat, with assisted stretching — the easiest option if you would rather not undress after a long day. It is more activating than Swedish, so if the goal is sleep, take the earlier slot. More in our guide to the best massage for desk tension in NYC.
Deep tissue or targeted upper-body work is the right call when you can point at the problem. A 60-minute session concentrated on neck, shoulders and upper back is one of the most common evening bookings we take. Sixty minutes is $149.90; if the area is stubborn, 90 minutes at $209.90 buys real working time.
Two options reach tension that resists ordinary thumb-and-elbow pressure: Ashiatsu and Tok-Sen. Ashiatsu is barefoot massage delivered from overhead bars, so the pressure is broad, deep and evenly distributed instead of pointed — $149.90 for 60 minutes, $209.90 for 90, $299.90 for 120.
Tok-Sen uses a traditional Northern Thai wooden mallet to send rhythmic vibration through tissue along the Sen lines. There is very little else like it in Midtown.
Thai is clothed and stretch-based, deep tissue is targeted and oil-based, Ashiatsu is broad barefoot pressure, and Swedish is gentlest and best for sleep — all four are $149.90 for 60 minutes.
| Modality | Best for | Pressure | Oil or no oil | What you wear | Typical duration | Price (60 min) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thai | Desk posture, tight hips, limited range of motion | Firm rhythmic compression, assisted stretching | No oil | Loose clothing provided; stay dressed | 60 or 90 min | $149.90 |
| Deep Tissue | One area that hurts — neck, shoulders, low back | Strong, slow, targeted | Oil | Undress to comfort, draped | 60 or 90 min | $149.90 |
| Ashiatsu | Deep pressure without a sharp elbow point | Deep but broad and evenly spread | Oil | Undress to comfort, draped | 60 or 90 min | $149.90 |
| Swedish | Winding down, sleep, a first massage | Light to medium, long even strokes | Oil | Undress to comfort, draped | 60 min | $149.90 |
Booking for two? The couples suite is a two-bed private room — $299.90 for 60 minutes, $419.90 for 90, $599.90 for 120, covering both guests. It is a single room, so reserve it well in advance.
You are taken to a private suite — Suite 2001 or 2007 at 501 Fifth Avenue — not an open room with curtains. You will not share space with anyone, and a bag, laptop and coat stay in the room with you.
Intake is short but real: what you do all day, what hurts, what you want out of the hour, anything to avoid. If you are arriving straight from the office, say so — it changes what a good therapist does with the first ten minutes.
Sessions are led by Sasighan "Sassy" Prasertsri, a New York Licensed Massage Therapist and NCBTMB Approved Provider (#792) trained at Wat Pho Medical School in Bangkok and the Thai Massage School of Chiang Mai, and by therapists trained in the same tradition. We hold a 4.6-star rating across 126 Google reviews. This is a professional massage practice only — inappropriate requests are not tolerated.
Three things: no deposit is required to book, cancellation is 24 hours, and later slots are easier to get and easier to extend.
No deposit is required. You are not committing money to hold a slot, so it is reasonable to reserve a Thursday evening on Monday even if Thursday is not settled.
Cancellation is 24 hours. Give us a day and there is no issue. If something genuinely blows up the same afternoon, call +1-212-759-6618 rather than disappearing — there is usually a way to move you.
Later slots are easier to extend. If you book at 8:00 PM and decide on arrival that you want 90 minutes ($209.90) rather than 60 ($149.90), there is frequently room. That is rarely true at 6:00 PM.
Book one standing evening slot — same night, every three or four weeks, reserved forward — instead of calling when something has already gone wrong. A late slot is the easiest one to protect, because almost nothing else is scheduled against it.
Most people book a massage when a neck will not turn or a back has seized on the subway stairs. That works, but it is expensive in the sense that matters — you spend the sessions catching up rather than staying ahead. A standing appointment stops competing with the calendar, and the body stops accumulating a backlog.
We are open every day from 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM at 501 Fifth Avenue, Suites 2001 and 2007. Book an appointment for whatever hour actually fits your week, or call +1-212-759-6618 to talk through which session makes sense.
Our last appointment starts at 9:00 PM and we close at 10:00 PM, every day of the week. A 60-minute session beginning at 8:30 or 9:00 PM is routine, and later slots are easier to reserve on short notice than the 6:00 PM window.
No — for many people it is the better hour. A session that starts after the working day has genuinely ended produces a deeper relaxation response than one squeezed in at six. If sleep is the priority, choose Swedish rather than intensive deep tissue work.
About a ten-minute walk. We are at 501 Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, two minutes from the Fifth Avenue–Bryant Park station on the 7, B, D, F and M, and minutes from Bryant Park, Grand Central and Times Square.
Booking ahead is strongly recommended, especially for evenings and the couples suite. No deposit is required, and cancellation is 24 hours. Same-day availability does happen — call +1-212-759-6618 and we will tell you what is open.
Plan for about 75 to 80 minutes door to door, including intake, changing, and a few minutes afterward. For a 90-minute session, allow roughly two hours. If you are catching a train from Grand Central, add twenty minutes from the studio to the platform.
Thai, Swedish, deep tissue, Therapist's Combo, Ashiatsu and Precision Reflexology are $149.90 for 60 minutes, $209.90 for 90, and $299.90 for 120, tax included. Four-hands is $299.90 for 60 minutes ($290.90 for Precision Reflexology), Core Vitality is 90 minutes only at $309.90, and a couple's massage covering both guests is $299.90 / $419.90 / $599.90.
