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- Eight NYC Hotels For Watching the 2021 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day ParadeOctober 20, 2021 - 5:42 pm
Still Regal: A Chic New Look For San Francisco’s Grand Old Palace Hotel
/in Hotel Renovations/by Terry TruccoAmerica’s 29th president, more infamous than illustrious, made news unexpectedly last week with the freshly unearthed (but hardly surprising) revelations that a) he fathered a child with his long-time mistress and b) he was not the country’s first black president (thank you, ancestry.com).
As it happened, I was in San Francisco, so I stopped by the Palace Hotel, where Warren G. Harding died unexpectedly almost 92 years to the day on August 2, 1923 of an apparent heart attack. (The exact cause of death remains unknown as his wife, said to be reading him a flattering newspaper article when he keeled over, vetoed an autopsy; perhaps she knew about Harding’s 26-year-old paramour all along.) Read more
The Gregory Hotel Checks In With Garment District Details and a Stylish Past
/in Hotel Openings and Closings, Hotel Renovations/by Terry TruccoThe Gregory, the Garment District’s newest hotel, boasts a book-lined lobby with sky-high ceilings, an inviting bar that does daytime duty as a coffee bar and 132 black and white guest rooms.But its most winning asset is the glamorous history embedded in its freshly painted bones. Read more
Checking into “Hotel Life,” A New Book About The Places Where Anything Can Happen
/in Hotel Shops and Collectibles, Hotels and the Arts/by Terry TruccoWe attend weddings and conferences at hotels. Some of us have memberships in hotel gyms. As unofficial local landmarks, the best hotels exude a promise of glamour, adventure and serendipitous surprise. Walking home from my first job in New York, I often strolled through The Plaza. One day I whirled through the revolving doors with Mick Jagger. Read more
A Summer Ice Cream Treat To Scream For At The Pierre New York
/in Hotel Food and Drink/by Terry TruccoSummer ice cream
What does summer taste like?
Ice cream is my favorite two word answer, especially when it’s in a cone. It seems Michael Mignano, Executive Pastry Chef at The Pierre New York, agrees.
In the spirit of long days, soaring temperatures and lazy afternoons (or memories of them), he’s concocted the summer’s cleverest pop-up dessert: four miniature hand-crafted cones filled with ice cream made from sun-season fruits — white peach raspberry, Alphonse mango, white chocolate strawberry, wild blueberry verbena. Read more
Dig in: A Record 43 Hotel Restaurants Sign On for NYC Restaurant Week with $38 Dinners and $25 Lunches
/in Hotel Food and Drink/by Terry TruccoTwo more courses to go.
If it’s late July it must be NYC Summer Restaurant Week — the lip-smacking week in name only that stretches just short of a month and serves up three-course prix-fixe deals designed to stave off summer doldrums (and keep restaurants humming during the slow season).
This summer’s magic numbers are $25 (lunch) and $38 (dinner). More than 360 restaurants are on board including 43 at hotels, a record by our reckoning. Read more
Times Square Francophiles: 3 NYC Hotels Celebrating Bastille Day & French Restaurant Week
/in Hotel Food and Drink/by Terry TruccoRead more
Three NYC Hotel Rooftops Where You Can Catch a Movie and Feel the Breeze
/in Hotel Food and Drink, Hotels and the Arts/by Terry TruccoWas The Spouter Inn The First Themed Boutique Hotel?
/in Hotels and the Arts/by Terry TruccoDid Herman Melville dream up the first themed boutique hotel?
Never mind that this was never his intent. But I’m rereading Moby-Dick, and it’s hard to ignore what we know about modern-day hotel design when Ishmael, roaming around New Bedford, Massachusetts looking for a bed for the night in Chapter 2, spots The Spouter Inn, “the dilapidated little wooden house” that “was the very spot for cheap lodgings.” (Our narrator had already dismissed The Crossed Harpoons and Sword-Fish Inn as “too expensive and jolly.”) Read more
Four NYC Hotels For Watching the July 4 Fireworks
/in Hotel Food and Drink, Hotels and Holidays/by Terry TruccoKa-boom
It’s almost birthday time for one big country, and who needs candles when you’ve got fireworks?
This year’s July 4th sparklers, courtesy of Macy’s, explode over the East River, shot from barges floating between East 23rd Street and East 34th Street. You can see them from anywhere in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, provided there’s no tall buildings to obstruct your view (good luck). But a rooftop lounge at a well-placed hotel all but guarantees a great view (and drinks and food to boot). These four hotels are going all out to celebrate a big 239th for the USA. Read more
Lady M Unleashes ‘Bitch I’m Madonna’ — And Stages Her All-Night Party at The Standard Hotel
/in Hotels and the Arts, Notable Check-ins/by Terry TruccoIn what seems the latest pop video must-have (see Taylor Swift: “Bad Blood”), Madonna calls in some favors and stocks “Bitch I’m Madonna,” her loopy new vid, with enough famous faces to fill an issue of Entertainment Weekly (or the next Grammy Awards). Nicki Minaj, Beyoncé, Katy Perry, Kanye West, Rita Ora, Diplo, Alexander Wang and Chris Rock pop up along with Madonna’s sons Ricco and David, but they’re just the warm ups. The Standard Hotel at the High Line snaps up the biggest cameo as the backdrop for Madonna’s 4-minute-2-second party. Read more