For 364 days of the year the most desirable rooms at the new Courtyard Marriott Manhattan/Herald Square are those with views of the Empire State Building. But that changes on Thanksgiving Day. The new 167-room hotel has the good fortune to sit on the corner of Sixth Avenue and West 35th Street, a block away […]
Yes, it was, and what a plum, if fleeting, cameo Tribeca’s chic brick, pie-slice-shaped hotel landed in Woody Allen’s latest movie. Without giving too much away, a lead character – Alec Baldwin as a huckster bazillionaire named Hal – is spotted canoodling a glamorous brunette by his wife’s sister as the pair exit the hotel. […]
It’s a tiny thing, but a treat at turndown is an easy way for a hotel to win points with its guests and differentiate itself from the competition — and airbnb. I know I’m grateful when something thoughtful and unexpected turns up at turndown. (I still use the tiny tub of mandarin and lemon lip […]
You’ll have to come to town in January. But 12 hotels are offering rooms for $100 during the third annual New York Hotel Week, January 3 through 12, 2014. Another $100 gets you 14 hotels in a spiffier range. And for $300 you can sample a pair of boutique hotels normally in the $400-plus range. Can […]
Normally, the New York Hilton isn’t one of those hotels that revels in its history with vintage photos and menus encased in glass in the lobby. But on June 26th, the hotel celebrated its 50th anniversary with a big party in the airy duplex where Lucille Ball once lived.
It’s the weekend of liberty, equality and fraternity as Bastille Day — July 14 — rolls around this Sunday for the 224th time. Paris not in your travel plans? The Serendipity, created by Colin Peter Field for the Hemingway Bar at the Ritz Paris, bills itself as France in a Glass. The Ritz is closed […]
Summer in the city doesn’t seem like summer without NYC Restaurant Week, now in its 11th year.
Robert Redford sprints past the Beacon Hotel, a stodgy budget property with a black awning, as he flees an assassin on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The Beacon looks a lot better today – as does the West Side.
Maybe we should rephrase the question and ask which actor got the most screen time on hotel room flatscreens last month.
What did the management of the Affinia Manhattan request when they hired Rottet Studio to redesign the lobby of their 1929 midtown hotel? Lighten up was my verdict the first time I saw the smartly renovated lobby. The walls and ceiling are the color of whipped cream. Enormous mirrors paned in black offer a clever […]