Smyth Tribeca
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Located in the middle of Manhattan's vibrant Tribeca neighborhood, Smyth will open its doors on lower West Broadway.
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Hotel Coverage: Smyth Tribeca
ZOMG! NYC Thompson Hotels Have Food Truck Concierges
We don’t know anyone not mildly obsessed with food trucks, so this bit of news made us grin with greedy pleasure. Thompson Hotels’ New York properties have a dedicated Food Truck Concierge! Just let that one sink in for a sec...OK? You ready? Here’s the deal, this person’s job...
October 16, 2012
Bring Your Hotel Room Home With You: Discover & Deliver Sources Hotel Furniture For Your Abode
If you, like us, have ever fantasized about living in a hotel but, for some reason, this has never quite transpired, you can now finally furnish your home exactly like one, thanks to UK company Discover & Deliver. Discover & Deliver will source any piece of furniture or number...
June 22, 2012
Hotels Are Getting Sexy, Er, Ready for Valentine's Day in NYC
It's just two weeks now until Valentine's Day and if you haven't made plans with your schmoopie, well then you better get started. We've been inundated with a ton of Valentine's Day hotel deals and promotions and we're trying to keep up with them all. Here are a few...
January 31, 2012
September In New York Doesn't Have To Put You In The Poor House
We've gotten a few requests this week for affordable hotels in NYC, and thought we'd take a minute to examine the crazy roller coaster that is September hotel rates. First off, three major overlapping events—a UN conference, two consecutive Jewish holidays (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur), and the NYC WIne...
September 15, 2011
Sacha Baron Cohen's Next Mockumentary Films at The Roosevelt NYC
As Hurricane Irene narrows her eyes and speeds towards New York City, we're reminded of one very important thing: this is a city full of celebrities! If the streets flood and we're all wading through sewage with our belongings strapped to our backs, then at least we can take...
August 26, 2011
Where to Stay for the Tribeca Film Festival
Movie buffs are getting ready to hit up the 12-day Tribeca Film Festival from April 20 to May 1. If you plan on visiting New York City to join other movie-goers at the fest, book your hotel now—last year, the event drew 410,000 cinephiles, filmmakers and actors. Of course,...
April 12, 2011
New York Hotels Giving Free Passes to The Armory Show
A dozen New York hotels have partnered with New York's tourism board to give guests tickets to the bleeding edge contemporary art fairs The Armory Show (March 3-6) and The Art Show (March 2-6). Book as little as one night, and you'll get free admission for two to both...
February 14, 2011
Kourtney and Kim Take New York...and The Penthouse at Smyth Tribeca
As we all learned last fall, Kourtney and Kim Kardashian took over the Smyth Tribeca while filming their new E! show "Kourtney and Kim Take New York" and last night the very first episode of the show premiered. Naturally, we were stoked to see the inside of the hotel...
January 24, 2011
The 12 Best Hotels in NYC: Fall 2010
For over six years now, we've been chronicling, photographing and filming the best and the worst in hotels around the world. And now it is time to impart our PH.D-like hotel wisdom on you in rankings form. You wanted the best and you got the best, the hottest hotels...
November 03, 2010
Kim Kardashian Is Making One Hotel Doorman a Very Happy Man
Everyone knows The Kardashians have taken over The Smyth Hotel in Tribeca as Kim and Kourtney film a spin-off TV show that follows them as they open an NYC fashion boutique. Now, some folks might be turned off by the amount of paparazzi hanging around the joint but from...
October 12, 2010
The Kardashians Move into Smyth Tribeca as Does the Toro Bar
Whenever there's another Kardashian TV show spin-off, you can be assured that another hotel will get caught in the Kardashian girls web of drama. This time it's the Smyth Hotel in TriBeCa. Kourtney and her baby daddy will shack up here while Kourt and sister Kim will launch their...
October 04, 2010
Plein Sud at Smyth Tribeca is Now Open (and with a 'Top Chef' Too)
Do you remember the Smyth Tribeca? It opened back in February 2009 but compared to its social siblings in the Thompson Hotels collection, Smyth is often forgotten about, largely because it lacks any sort of nightlife scene. However, that should change now that its restaurant, Plein Sud, from restaurateur...
June 02, 2010
What Are The Hot Hotels for the Tribeca Film Festival This Year?
It's almost that time of year again—when De Niro's "little" film festival hits downtown New York, and locals complain about how they couldn't get tickets. Again. But enough about the actual movies, what about the hotels? Which ones will be the hotspots of the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival? Oh sure,...
April 02, 2010
We Totally Forgot Smyth Hotel Was Opening a Restaurant
But can you blame us? The Smyth Hotel in Tribeca has been open for nearly a year and the hotel's restaurant Jour et Nuit is still not yet open. However, Thompson says it's in the works. While we ordered food from the bar while kicking it during a Digital...
December 11, 2009
Digital Nomad Lobbies: Working It Out at Smyth Tribeca
There has been a lot of talk recently about the lifestyle of digital nomads -- folks who work from wherever they might roam. HotelChatter has been covering hotel wifi since the beginning, but as we cited in our 2009 annual hotel wifi report times they are a changin'. The...
August 14, 2009
Why One Dude Loves The Smyth Hotel's Bathrooms
We often travel alone and spend the night in hotel rooms alone but on a recent trip to New York City, we managed to have a few travel buddies come along with us. Our mother stayed with us when we visited The Plaza (she loved the rooms but misses...
June 10, 2009
Dream New York for $113 Through Quikbook's NYC Sale
Oooh. Quikbook launched another 72-hour hotel sale this morning (oh, we should mention they launched it first to their Twitter followers — so if you're not acclimated to the Twitterverse yet, perhaps this will help make a case) and we were mighty impressed with what we found for a...
May 05, 2009
The Greenwich Hotel Not Super Expensive for Tribeca Film Festival
Considering that Greenwich Hotel owner Bobby DeNiro is also the man behind the Tribeca Film Festival, we expected his hotel to be either sold-out or ridonkulously expensive, like the Kentucky Derby hotels.To our genuine surprise, we found rooms on April 22nd, the start of the film festival for a...
April 08, 2009
What the Rooms at Thompson Toronto Will Look Like
It seems as if it's always one step forward, one step back for Thompson Hotels, except this time around it's one step back, one step forward. We were crushed to hear that the free WiFi we so depended on from Thompson Hotels is gone. Out the window with the boom...
March 06, 2009
Has Free WiFi at Thompson Hotels Gone Bye-Bye?
Thompson giveth — and then they taketh away. Just as we thought hotel chains were making some major progress on the free WiFi front, it saddens us deeply to report a major setback: The boutique-chic Thompson hotel chain, whose head honcho has spoken up in the past about the...
March 02, 2009
How Important is Free Hotel Parking to You?
Exhibit A: This morning, we hit up TripAdvisor to check on guest reactions to the newly-opened Smyth Tribeca. There were two reviews smiling back at us — positive experiences, generally; good service, great rates, etc. — and then there was this: We were able to get a sweet deal...
February 24, 2009
HotelChatter Goes Inside Smyth Tribeca
When we spend months stalking a single hotel, getting pumped every time reservations go live and then getting angry when those reservations close up due to delays, we know all of the teasing builds some pretty high expectations for the property. But when we finally stepped inside Smyth Tribeca's...
February 06, 2009
Deskless at Smyth Tribeca
Well, it happened: we spent a night at Smyth Tribeca. As we announced on Monday, Thompson's newest several-times-delayed property opened up yesterday — and we got in there last night after we scored a kickass rate of $107 through Quikbook. We'll have tons of pics, a video tour and...
February 04, 2009
Shang Introduces 'Starving Artists' Menu
With the incredible announcement that Smyth Tribeca will finally open tomorrow after several, annoying false-starts comes news that Shang at Thompson LES is introducing a Starving Artists menu. The prix fixe menu is offering three courses of the restaurant's "most popular" dishes for $35.Mondays and Tuesdays, the special deal...
February 02, 2009
Smyth Tribeca Opens Tomorrow Starting at $107
On a whim, we called Smyth Tribeca this morning to check in on what was going on with their constantly-delayed, heartbreakingly-confusing opening. Quick recap: it was supposed to open in January and then it didn't — and, uh, that sort of thing happened a couple of times. We toured...
February 02, 2009
Smyth Tribeca To Open On February 6th, But Don't Count On It
We've backed off of our obsessive Smyth Tribeca coverage a little bit lately — we'd gotten a little bit frustrated after all the booking and canceling throughout the never-ending cycle of disappointing delay news that we'd experienced in January (please, by all means, read all about it). Once we'd...
January 27, 2009
Smyth Tribeca Looks Good, But Won't Open Until February
After a bit of a disastrous run with booking rooms for the beginning of the month at the yet-to-open, twice-delayed Smyth Tribeca, the kind folks that run the hotel invited us over to get a sneak peek and a personal tour of the property before doors opened to the...
January 16, 2009
Smyth Tribeca Delayed Yet Again
Fool us once, shame on you; fool us twice, shame on... no, still shame on you. Yes, it is with a heavy heart that we report that Smyth Tribeca's opening has been delayed again. However, on the bright side, we have been able to find great humor in the...
January 12, 2009
2009 New York City Hotel Openings Preview
We told you that the Hotel Hype machine would be alive and kicking in 2009 despite the gloomy-as-all-hell economic outlook for the hospitality industry and oh yeah, for the rest of the world. But 2009 is also shaping up to be a year with several new very cool hotels...
January 06, 2009
Smyth Tribeca Now Scheduled for January 12th
Rejoice! We have a new opening date for Smyth Tribeca! As we all know by now, Thompson's newest NYC outpost was originally scheduled to open its doors tomorrow (January 6th), but we received heartbreaking news last week that the hotel was going to be delayed — which was especially...
January 05, 2009
And Now We Have the Quikbook-Smyth Relocation Email
Looks like Smyth Tribeca won't be opening up by January 11th either. We just got an email from Quikbook, who we booked the hotel room through, explaining that we would be relocated to Thompson Lower East Side: I am writing to you to inform you that the Smyth hotel has...
December 29, 2008
Smyth Tribeca Won't Be Opening on January 6th
This just in: Smyth Tribeca from Thompson Hotels will not be opening on January 6 as was initially reported earlier this month. However, Thompson Hotels is promising that it will opening soon after that, sometime around the 11th. That's not too bad, considering we didn't even think Smyth would open...
December 29, 2008
Smyth Tribeca Will Start at $119 on January 11
Once again Quikbook is the place to look and book when considering a new Thompson Hotel. The newest addition to their collection will be Smyth Tribeca which we learned was opening in January. January 6th to be exact at $205 a night. But if you can hold out for five...
December 09, 2008
Smyth Tribeca Opening in January
A king superior room at the hotel.We blame it on the Turkey Dinner. Last Monday, we heard from Thompson Hotels that Smyth Tribeca would be opening in January. And our mouths literally dropped open. But they insisted that it was true. So it was either the turkey we ate two...
December 03, 2008
Chicago's Wit Hotel To Tickle Your Fancy
You know what is pretty entertaining? That hugely-popular trend of late to build scenester hotels and plop a few stories of multi-million dollar condos "with hotel amenities" on top. Sure, who wouldn't love to have their beds turned down nightly and the option of room service at all hours,...
October 03, 2008
Smyth Tribeca Still Under Construction and Will Be For a While
We think our love for delay-watching Thompson Hotels is quite clear, what with all the fodder we have from other debacles Six Columbus and Allen Street. Now we turn our eye to their new property filling out and pepping up in Tribeca, Smyth, where Thompson hotelier Jason Pomeranc is giving...
July 03, 2008
Guess The Hotel :: Which Hotel in Tribeca is Desperately Recruiting a Chef on Craigslist?
We were perusing the vast treasure trove of merriment and wonder otherwise known as Craigslist when we came across this interesting little job posting: Seeking a highly seasoned chef to man our newest kitchen. Must have positive press/customer following or has worked under a well known chef with superb...
June 25, 2008
Progress Report: 2008 New York City Hotel Openings
The Standard NYC, March 26, 2008.At the start of the year we put out our annual New York City Openings Preview where we round-up some of the hotly anticipated hotels for the upcoming year. Since there's been a lot of buzz lately on a few of these properties we thought...
March 26, 2008
PM Linkage: $225 a Night at the Shelley in SoBe This Weekend
In case you don't already know, you can check hotel rates from around the world on HotelChatter. Today, we were wondering if you could get a deal in Miami Beach during a peak weekend of a peak week in peak season. So we checked rates for Feb. 21st to 24th...
February 18, 2008
2008 New York City Hotel Openings Preview
Each year as little girls and boys around the world are behaving themselves in hopes of getting a sackload of presents under the tree on Christmas morning, we here at HotelChatter are culling together our annual New York City Hotel Openings Preview. This is where we take a look at...
December 12, 2007
Introducing The Thompson Hotels Map
Click to go straight to the Thompson Hotels MapAs we head into the new year, we are bracing ourselves for the onslaught of Thompson Hotels that are "scheduled" to open in 2008.We are betting that the men of Thompson have learned their lesson from the long-delayed Six Columbus which took...
November 26, 2007
What's Next for Thompson Hotels? Apparently, A Lot
Gild Hall, New York: Opening December 1, 2007.Just because Six Columbus opened doesn't mean we here at HotelChatter are through with Thompson Hotels. While 2006 and most of 2007 wasn't a very good here for Jason Pomeranc and his boutique hotel group, things are looking up.· Thompson Beverly Hills is...
October 02, 2007
NYC's Other Thompson Hotel :: Smyth Tribeca
We've been so wrapped up in covering the ongoing saga of Six Columbus we almost forgot that Jason Pomeranc has another property in the works in Manhattan: Smyth Tribeca. (His crew is also at work another downtown hotel: LES Thompson.) The latest info we can dig up sets the opening...
September 13, 2007
Jason Pomeranc Breaks Ground in Tribeca, Scouts Out Miami, Leaves Six Columbus Unopened
Perhaps boosted by the progress made on his LES hotel and his Beverly Hills joint, Jason Pomeranc is on another hotel mission.Page Six has the latest on Pomeranc's hotelier dreams for Miami, where he once managed the Sagamore Hotel before some "creative differences" forced him to drop out of the...
March 05, 2007
Jason Pomeranc Blazes On in Tribeca
Never mind that Six Columbus still has not opened, Jason Pomeranc and co. are moving forward with their plans for a hotel in Tribeca, called Smyth. A tipster sends us this little bit from the Boutique Search Firm December 2006 newsletter about the Thompson Hotels new hire for this property:"Antoine...
December 07, 2006
Partner Reviews: Smyth Tribeca
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Awesome movie nights every Wednesday! -
Ask to dj w your own iPod, either mine or Nikkah's! -
Come on Tuesday & Wednesday night for service from sexy lady bartenders! -
Awesome movie night every Wednesday night!!
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an East Village jewel -
Best bartenders in the city. -
Come on a Tuesday night and leave the bartender, Bianca, a huge tip. She is super sexy! -
My other 5th street go to. This place is a gem and possibly the closest replacement to Mars Bar you can find. -
Maddy hearts Bradley! Tip your bartender! -
241 happy hour every day til 8, and awesome movies on Wednesdays :) -
Tip the bartenders well and you'll always b treated well
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Also, the two heated pipes against the wall do wonders for your back. It's like a hot tub. -
Wear your jacket and don't fall off your stool.
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$6 PBR and well bourbon happy hour is appealing. As is the 4am and later lock-in where you can convince the bartenders to put on your iPod.
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actually John Ross is mayor of fish bar.
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