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- Eight NYC Hotels For Watching the 2021 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day ParadeOctober 20, 2021 - 5:42 pm
Super-duper — Three Hotels Where You Can Catch Super Bowl XLIX in New York City
/in Hotels Pets & Sports/by Terry TruccoIt’s hours until Super Bowl XLVIX, and questions abound. Will Seattle cornerback Richard Sherman show up on the field or at the maternity ward if his girlfriend goes into labor? Will Katy Perry recruit yet another guest star at half time? Will they deflate the balls?
And where do you want to be when all is revealed? Read more
Why You Really Want To Come To New York City In The Dead Of Winter (Think Hotel Prices)
/in Hotels in the News/by Terry TruccoIt’s cold, snowy and dark. Why would anyone want to come to New York in January and February?
Because it’s cheap. And oddly friendly. The city’s dearest restaurants are thrilled to give you a table (sometimes). You can score tickets to any Broadway show you want. Read more
Five New York City Hotels to Check Out Before the Holidays Wind Down
/in Hotels and Holidays/by Terry TruccoAs we breeze into the holiday home stretch, what better time to blow off an afternoon or evening with a fortifying drink, wintery exercise or seasonal visuals? Here are five hotels to check out even if you’re not checking in. Read more
Holiday Eye Candy: The Sixth Annual Gingerbread Extravaganza Wafts Into Le Parker Meridien
/in Hotels and Holidays/by Terry TruccoAdd edible art to the list of New York City products that won’t be outsourced this holiday season.
For the sixth year in a row, The Gingerbread Extravaganza outfits the atrium at Le Parker Meridien with a fleet of fragrant art-meets-cookie-dough sculptures encased in Plexiglas.
This year’s theme, Made in New York, is a reminder of how inimitable the city’s sights are, from King Kong and the Great White Way to Holly Golightly breakfasting at Tiffany’s, especially when rendered in gingerbread. Read more
So Long, Cafe Edison — Times Square’s Storied Coffee Shop Cooks Up Its Final Cheese Blintz
/in Hotel Food and Drink, Hotels in the News/by Terry TruccoI swiveled on my worn leather stool, sipping a chocolate egg cream and taking in the scene from my spot at the formica counter. There aren’t many places in Times Square where you can get an egg cream anymore let alone one as good as mine. But come Monday, there will be one less.
Cafe Edison, the coffee shop at the Hotel Edison, closes its doors for the final time when the last customer leaves tonight. Read more
White Chocolate’s Not Just for Eating: Meet The Peninsula New York’s Snowpage Family
/in Hotels and Holidays/by Terry TruccoOnce again The Peninsula New York has proved you don’t have to eat pastry to enjoy it.
The showpiece of the hotel’s wildly decorative holiday lobby is a Snowpage family — roly, poly papa, mama and baby — cooked up from 90 pounds of white chocolate along with fondant (five pounds), sugar (three pounds) and a sprinkling of gold dust. Read more
What You — and Will and Kate — Can Expect When New York Base Camp Is The Carlyle Hotel
/in Hotels in the News, Notable Check-ins/by Terry TruccoHere’s what you’ll see in the lobby at The Carlyle hotel this week, whether you’re in residence for 48 hours like the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge or taking the shortcut from Madison Avenue to East 76th Street like I did last week.
Why did Britain’s First Family of Royals — or their minders — choose the Carlyle over the half dozen or so other Manhattan hotels that offer celebrated travelers a silky mix of privacy, security and splendor? Read more
One More Tete-a-Tete For The Fabled Vicious Circle At The Algonquin Hotel
/in Hotel History, Hotels and the Arts/by Terry TruccoAl Hirschfeld was never a member of the Vicious Circle, the storied gathering of writers, actors and wags who traded lunchtime barbs around a round table at the Algonquin Hotel. But it’s easy to imagine he might have been.
He knew the group’s acid-tongued members personally, including critic Alexander Woolcott, playwright Gerald S. Kaufman, New Yorker editor Harold Ross and serial quipper Dorothy Parker. Read more
Bad News for The Broadway: Another Hotel Gets Zapped for Fining Guests Who Write Bad Reviews
/in Hotels in the News/by Terry TruccoLast week brought news of yet another hotel that decided the smartest way to guarantee good reviews was to fine guests who write bad ones. The latest chapter unfolded at The Broadway, a budget bed and breakfast hotel in the North England resort town of Blackpool that charged an English couple 100 pounds (about $157) for calling the place “a filthy, dirty, rotten, stinking hovel run by muppets” on Tripadvisor. Read more
Revving Up Camp Rockaway, a 21st Century Tent City Planned for Hip Rockaway Beach
/in Hotel Openings and Closings/by Terry TruccoEarlier this year we reported on Camp Rockaway, a germ of an idea for a laid-back, low-cost campgrounds with creature comforts like beds instead of sleeping bags and tents on wood platforms, complete with decks and adjoining pup tents for kids.
In June the project, planned for a site near newly hip Rockaway Beach in Queens, reached its Kickstarter goal, raising more than $50,000 to finance the necessary design and construction plans to move the endeavor forward. Late this summer a sample tent went up on an empty lot ringed by houses steps away from the beach. Read more