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- 8 NYC Hotels with Great Views for Watching Macy’s Thanksgiving Day ParadeNovember 8, 2024 - 4:34 am
- Hotel Obits, Part II: Six Notable NYC Hotels Closed Permanently By The PandemicFebruary 4, 2022 - 10:14 pm
- Eight NYC Hotels For Watching the 2021 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day ParadeOctober 20, 2021 - 5:42 pm
A Last Look at the Hotel Chelsea – And a Chat with the Photographer Who Captured its Final Days
/in Hotel Openings and Closings, Hotels and the Arts, Hotels in the News/by Terry TruccoOn an impulse, I stopped by the Hotel Chelsea the week before it closed two years ago for what was supposed to be a one-year renovation. As it turned out, this was the Chelsea’s last hurrah as the much-loved, occasionally reviled free spirit of the New York hotel scene. Read more
Pass the Popcorn: What Movies Were the Biggest Hits in Hotel Rooms in August 2013?
/in Hotels and the Arts/by Terry TruccoLeonardo and Carrie and Tiffany bling.
If you spent a late summer night in a New York City hotel room, chances are you escaped the heat and humidity by watching Carrie and Leonardo toy with Tiffany cuff links and pearls in The Great Gatsby, old sport. Elsewhere across the US and in Canada, hotel-goers clicked onto the antics of a very different duo, FBI agents Sandra and Melissa in The Heat (New York audiences liked that one, too.) But the big winner in August was the magician’s caper, Now You See Me. Read more
Screens With Cool Programs That Make You Want To Climb onto the Treadmill
/in Hotels and Tech/by Terry TruccoI wanna run: Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
What’s the first word that leaps to mind when you think of treadmills or elliptical machines?
Entertaining isn’t my first choice, either. But a new generation of screens being rolled out at top-flight hotels hints that Get Me Off Of This Thing doesn’t have to be the auto-pilot mantra when you climb onto a cardio machine. Read more
A Scary Summer Sculpture Checks In at The Standard
/in Hotels and the Arts/by Terry TruccoRed Scary Guy, 2013.
Every summer for the past three years a new work of art has appeared on the front plaza at The Standard High Line NYC. Each has been eye-catching and thought provoking. Read more
Is This Times Square’s Biggest Billboard Ever?
/in Hotels in the News/by Terry TruccoComing soon to the top of the Conde Nast Building.
At last count, Times Square had 230 illuminated advertising billboards blazing away day and night.
So why is the proposed sign for Swedish retailer H & M, set to crown the Conde Nast Building at 4 Times Square by the end of the year, causing such a fuss?
For starters, it’s super big. With four 70-foot panels, H & M will dwarf rooftop behemoths like the GE sign that crowns 30 Rockefeller Plaza and the Met Life moniker looming over Park Avenue near Grand Central Station. Read more
How Marriott’s UK Hotels Turn Worn-Out Hotel Sheets into Tote Bags with Style
/in Green Hotels, Hotel Shops and Collectibles/by Terry TruccoAnyone who’s had the misfortune of sleeping on hotel sheets that were ripped or frayed knows that bed linens don’t last forever. Sixty washes constitutes a lifetime for a sheet.
But what happens to dead bedding when it’s banished from your hotel room bed?
Since 2011, discarded sheets from Marriott hotels throughout the U.K. have returned to the properties reconstituted as stylish laundry bags, hair dryer bags and newspaper bags. And now Marriott International announces the arrival of another second coming – limited edition tote bags created from recycled hotel sheets. Read more
Up Close and Personal with the Empire State Building at the Refinery Hotel Roof Bar
/in Hotel Food and Drink/by Terry TruccoWhen a tower is as tall as the Empire State Building, you can see it from a lot of vantage points. Still, the view from roof bar at the new Refinery Hotel is special.
The hotel stands just four blocks north of the once-tallest-building-in-the-world. From the roof it appears so close you feel you could almost leap over in a King Kong moment. Read more
An Easy Check-In at the New High Line Hotel
/in Hotel Openings and Closings, Hotels and Tech/by Terry TruccoHigh Line Hotel lobby: home to iPad check-in.
The new High Line Hotel occupies a Victorian brick building with a parade of 19th-century-style gas lamps planted out front. Classic black phones with rotary dials perch on the nightstands. And on each desk, a gilded iron embosser sits at the ready should the urge strike to take pen (make that fountain pen) to paper and write a letter the time-honored way.
But check-in is pure 21st century. Read more
Pass the Popcorn: What Movies Were Watched the Most in Hotel Rooms During July?
/in Hotels and the Arts/by Terry Trucco“42,” the Jackie Robinson story.
It’s summer, so we’re not surprised that the season’s big baseball movie was a hit in hotel rooms for the second month in a row. 42, the saga of the sport’s game changer Jackie Robinson, stars Chadwich Boseman and Harrison Ford and batted fifth in New York City hotel rooms and sixth in hotels throughout the U.S. and Canada. Read more
A New Hotel with Great Views of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
/in Hotel Openings and Closings, Hotels and Holidays/by Terry TruccoFor 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 from Macy’s Department Store and directly above the street where Snoopy, Hello Kitty and all the other balloons, floats and bands pass by in the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Read more