The Pod Hotel – Overnight New York

Cocktails With King Kong: Five NYC Hotel Roof Bars With Killer Views of the Empire State Building

August 26, 2014/in Hotel Food and Drink/by Terry Trucco

Roof bars are no longer an oddity at hotels, but that doesn’t make them any less appealing. Drinks with an eye-popping view a pairing the never gets old. I found a full hand with money vistas of the ultimate New York City icon – the Empire State Building. Four are open year round so you can gaze whenever the mood strikes upon “the closest thing to heaven” to quote a line from not one, but two legendary movies.

The Best of the New at NYC Hotels, 2012 Edition

January 1, 2013/in Hotels in the News/by Terry Trucco

When hotel historians – hey, they’re out there somewhere — look back on 2012, they’ll say what we already know: it was, for the most part, a very good year. New York City boasts 91,500 hotel rooms – up from 90,000 in 2011. Put another way, 29 million hotel room nights were sold in New York City in 2012. Read more

Sipping a Drink and Gazing at the Empire State Building at Pod 39’s Cool Roof Bar

October 6, 2012/in Hotel Food and Drink/by Terry Trucco

We’ll venture a wild guess that architect Arthur Loomis Harmon never dreamed the roof of Allerton House, a residential hotel for men he designed in 1916, would one day serve up Mexican beer, California Cabernet and cocktails like Fly By Night (gin, lemon juice, cinnamon-vanilla bean, orange blossom and sea salt on the rocks). Read more

A Chat With Vanessa Guilford About Designing Pod51 and Pod39, the Hip Budget Hotels

August 6, 2012/in Hotels in the News/by Terry Trucco

A red room at the new Pod 39.

In early 2011 I spent a night at the Pod Hotel on East 51^st Street in one of the tiniest rooms on the planet. But what my little cell lacked in size it made up in style and smarts. Read more

Pod 39 Throws Open its Doors with an $85-a-Room “Sample Sale”

July 7, 2012/in Hotel Openings and Closings/by Terry Trucco

On sale, limited time only.

New York is the capital of sample sales for everything from designer T-shirts to sofas, so why not hotels? During early July Pod 39, the new East 39^th Street sibling to the original Pod Hotel, aka Pod 51, is offering guests a chance to “sample” the new hotel for $85 a night. Read more

A First Look at Style On the Cheap at The New Pod Hotel

February 3, 2011/in Hotel Openings and Closings/by Terry Trucco

Invasion of the Body Snatchers aside, Pod is a cool name for a budget hotel. To my ears, it sounds upbeat and hip, because what could be more upbeat, or hip, than a place that proudly admits its rooms are small and cheap? Read more

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