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Hotel Coverage: The Maritime Hotel
Your Freewheelin' Guide To Hotels With Free Bike Rentals
As summer nears, hotels are going to start up with the usual warm-weather offerings: rooftop bars, poolside cabanas, and those awkward tanning concierges. But as far as we're concerned, it all boils down to one question: where can we ride a bike for free? Unless otherwise noted, all of the...
April 25, 2013
Dream Downtown Will Open a BondSt Sushi in Place of Romera
Despite the whispers of a possible sale, the Dream Downtown remains a hot place to be. Why just the other night, Kanye West was at the hotel's PH-D nightclub where he unleashed some previously unreleased tunes (so says Page Six.)Now comes word that the hotel's shuttered Romera restaurant downstairs...
August 07, 2012
Cover Yourself in Crystals in Canada or Go Cheap in Las Vegas: Hotel Deals to Mull Over This Week
Deals: you want 'em, and surprisingly, everyone has 'em. Take a look at some of the latest hotel deals going around the internet today from booking sites, social media sites, flash sale sites and more. Don't forget to scroll down to see the HotelChatter-approved deal either. Who knows? You...
May 08, 2012
Here's Where You'll Be Riding (For Free) During Bike Season In New York
Riding a bike in Manhattan can indeed be lethal—you've always got to keep your guard up, and you should never EVER assume a taxi driver has seen you (even if you're riding around in a neon pink unitard). But in the warmer seasons, like now, bike riding can be one...
April 06, 2012
Now You Can Take A Piece Of Hiro Ballroom Home With You
The time has come for the Maritime Hotel's Hiro Ballroom and Matsuri restaurant to close. After many years, many celebrity performances, and many penis festivals, the party has finally come to an end. But that doesn't mean you can't still experience all the cool, Asian-inspired decor of the space long...
March 27, 2012
Eric Goode Doesn't Just Specialize in Hotels For Humans
Hoteliers tend to be people with many interests—real estate, seaplanes, blondes. And, apparently, turtles. According to an article in the current New Yorker, hotelier Eric Goode is a major herpetophile—or, in English, a reptile geek—and has been collecting turtles since he was a little boy. When he's not dashing between...
January 25, 2012
The Penis Festivals are Over as Maritime Hotel's Matsuri Restaurant and Hiro Ballroom are Closing
It looks like the Penis Festivals and the Hot Pot Parties are over at the Matsuri restaurant inside the Maritime Hotel. Guest of a Guest reports that both Matsuri and the Hiro Ballroom at the hotel are closing at the end of March. And in their place will be...
December 19, 2011
Anthony Weiner Dines at The Maritime, aka the Home of the Penis Festival
This last weekend was a crazy one for New York City. On Friday night, the same-sex marriage law passed, causing mass partying in the streets. Then, on Sunday the Pride Parade again took over the West Village for over six hours of rainbow floats and bare-chested booty-shaking. So what...
June 27, 2011
The Maritime's Merry Christmas Means Playing with Legos
Happy Holidays from The Maritime from Maritime Hotel on Vimeo. Have you covered your refrigerator or mantelpiece in Christmas cards sent by the friends and family yet? We haven't either, and do you know why? It's because everyone is going e-card this year, and a great example of how to...
December 22, 2010
The Tribeca Film Festival Hotel-Hopping List is Shaping Up
Now we're less than a week away from kick off, details of the panels and parties for the Tribeca Film Festival are starting to come together. As you'd expect, most of the action is happening downtown. (We often see crowds of bearded, cool-hatted filmmaker types smoking outside the Tribeca Grand...
April 15, 2010
Matsuri at The Maritime Hotel to Celebrate 'Penis Festival' on April Fool's Day
Do you want to get our attention? Send us an email with the words "penis festival" in the subject heading and we're all ears (or is it eyes?) The Matsuri restaurant inside The Maritime Hotel has crafted a special menu around the annual Japanese springtime celebration of fertility, The...
March 10, 2010
Is Purple The New Hot Hotel Hue?
The lobby of The Best Western President Hotel in New York. We’ve covered a lot of Pink Hotels here at HotelChatter, but Barbie’s favorite color better watch its back. There’s a hot new hotel hue on the rise–and Prince is gonna love it. That’s right, purple is the new...
February 03, 2010
For Tiger Woods, What Happened in Vegas Definitely Did Not Stay There
Cougar Hotels! Ewww, Tiger Woods! Teen Superstar Hotel ConfessionsIt always seems that no matter how much Celebrity Scoop we write about in a given week, there's also lots more that we didn't have time to get to. So from now on, every Friday we'll be rounding up the week's...
December 11, 2009
Chuck Bass Takes On Sean MacPherson on 'Gossip Girl'
We know that Sean Macpherson was traveling in Bhuktan last week but we sincerely hope he made it back stateside to watch himself on the last night's episode of "Gossip Girl."In the episode, Sean played himself--a New York City hotelier--who Chuck Bass approaches with his nightclub plans (and tries to...
September 29, 2009
The Maritime's Matchbook Ignites The Fires Of Desire
Happy Friday! You know what we like to talk about on Fridays at HotelChatter? Hotel Sex! So, just to get your all geared up for the weekend, we thought we'd share with you this semi-NSFW matchbook that we picked up this week from the restaurant of New York's Maritime...
September 25, 2009
Ain't No Party Like A Hot Pot Party At NYC's Maritime Hotel
We love hotels, and we love food. Thank heavens that a good hotel usually comes with a great restaurant, and if we're lucky, a talented chef to boot. This is the case at The Maritime Hotel in New York, which dilutes its mild nautical theme with a lower-level Japanese...
September 23, 2009
Lady Gaga Peforms at Marc Jacobs After-Party at Maritime's Hiro Ballroom
Fashion Week is in full force in NYC and while our Top Three Hotels for Fashion Week are seeing some consistent action, the Maritime Hotel was the scene of FW's most coveted affair, the Marc Jacobs show's after-party which took place inside the Hiro Ballroom. Hosted by V Magazine...
September 15, 2009
Basquiat Lives On at the Maritime Hotel
If you’ve stayed at the Maritime Hotel in New York, you probably noticed the blocks of yellow spines on the suite’s bookshelves—full sets of National Geographic magazines. But they’re not just there to look pretty, or because hotelier Eric Goode snagged them on the cheap from some yard sale....
July 16, 2009
Katy Perry Performing at Maritime Hotel's Hiro Ballroom Tonight
An excuse to look your prettiest! Tonight is Paper Magazine's Beautiful People Party, and cover girl Katy Perry will be performing along with DJ Cassidy and DJ Jon Jon Battles at the Maritime Hotel's Hiro Ballroom. Thankfully, this year's party will be free of The Misshapes and Lindsay Lohan...
April 09, 2009
Dream Downtown NYC Delayed to 2010?
Back in April of 2008, we stood at this very same vantage point in West Chelsea for a look at hotelier Vikram Chatwal's upcoming Downtown Dream Hotel, which abuts the back end of Sean MacPherson's Maritime. Now almost a year later, the Dream construction (on the left) remains shrouded...
March 16, 2009
Coming Soon to Chelsea :: The Sapphire Strip Club Hotel?
Despite the bad news that's been floating around in the hotel world (cough,Vegas,cough) New York hotels have had a pretty good week. Average room rates are up from last year, occupancy is skyrocketing and the Chelsea 'nabe may be getting a boutique hotel atop a strip club. Kinky! The Sapphire...
August 15, 2008
Get Sartorialized at the Maritime New York
Fancy a breezy spring bike ride around Chelsea? Hop one of the Schwinn Cruisers for rent at The Maritime Hotel, but be sure to dress your best as photoblogger populaire The Sartorialist might be lurking `round the corner. Last week one such lucky(?) guest found himself posing for the entire...
May 13, 2008
Snapshot :: Vikram's Downtown Dream Hotel is (Ship)Shaping Up
Is what you see above: A) another nautical building sticking off the back of the Maritime Hotel? B) a homeless shelter? Or is it C) Vikram Chatwal's $70 million dollar chunk of the Meatpacking District? As is only proper in the business of building New York hotels, ALL THREE crazy...
April 29, 2008
Happy Holidays from Eric Goode and Sean MacPherson
Earlier this week as the flurry of rumors about a new hotel from Sean MacPherson and Eric Goode were flitting about we received a holiday card from the duo in the mail. Now, we know we are not VIP but rather we guessed that they had our address on file...
December 14, 2007
Best Hotels for Fireworks in Manhattan
Fourth of July is just two weeks away so in case you are headed to a big city for some fireworks fun, we'll be taking a look at hotels with prime fireworks views. Have a favorite hotel for gawking at bombs bursting in air? Send it our way.Fun Fact: New...
June 18, 2007
Furniture Designer Seeks Hip, Inexpensive NYC Hotel
A reader recently emailed us with this question:I will be coming into NYC in May for ICFF (International Contemporary Furniture Fair) and I would like to stay in a hip hotel that isn't overpriced. Well, that isn't an easy feat. You see, hip in Manhattan-speak translates roughly to $400-$450 a...
January 12, 2007
Will The Bowery Hotel Be the Scene of the Next 'Prison Break'?
Yesterday we let you know that the Maritime Hotel owners will be calling their new East Side hotel, The Bowery Hotel as its being built on Bowery and East Third.Now we're hearing that the hotel may not be in the most desirable lot on the block. A tipster tells us:What's...
October 10, 2006
Maritime East May Officially Be Called The Bowery Hotel
Lately we've been reporting on the Maritime East--the new hotel from Maritime owners Sean MacPherson and Eric Goode to be built on Bowery and East 3rd (See Google Earth image above.) Today, a tipster lets us know that the hotel's official name will be The Bowery Hotel.With a "classic hip"...
October 09, 2006
NYC Downtown Hotel Map :: Maritime Hotel
Click Here to Go Straight to the Downtown NYC MapThe Maritime Hotel is on the border of the Meatpacking District and Chelsea on 16th street and Ninth Ave. Once the headquarters of the National Maritime Union in 1966, the hotel keeps the nautical theme intact from the porthole windows...
October 03, 2006
Maritime Hotel to Get a New Sibling Somewhere in the East Village
The Maritime Hotel owners, Eric Goode and Sean MacPherson, are about to add an addition to their family.Nicknamed Maritime East, the hotel will open in an old stucco building in the East Village. No word on when or specifically where just yet. In the meantime, the hotel duo is pairing...
September 28, 2006
MTV's VMA Show Returns to New York City
MTV's Video Music Awards show returns to New York on Thursday, August 31. While we still think Miami is a more fun place to host the show (P. Diddy arriving on a jet-ski! Hurricane Warnings! Humidity and Bad Hair!), we're excited the show's back in Manhattan, bringing us closer to...
August 25, 2006
Maritime Hotel's Smoking Rules
The Maritime Hotel has a nifty little outdoor patio attached to its La Bottega restaurant and bar that's surprisingly nautical theme free.When the weather's nice the place is a great spot to relax with friends and sip a drink or two. But despite the friendly waitstaff, the hotel management has...
June 06, 2006
Fake Writers Like the Maritime
As we last reported, fake writer/person JT Leroy is a fan of the Hotel Vitale in San Francisco but now we hear that he/she/they are fans of the Maritime Hotel in New York.The movie version of the story "The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things", written by Leroy has been...
March 01, 2006
The Maritime Hotel's Faux Murphy Beds
sturgill's Maritime hotel photostream gives you a good idea how small the rooms at Chelsea's Maritime Hotel actually are. Faux murphy beds don't tend to be in roomy chambers. Then again, a roomy Manhattan hotel room is an oxymoron. Cramped nautical kitsch is definitely a unique way to take...
November 22, 2005
The Maritime Hotel is a Model Magnet
So what hotel was once again the under(fed) belly of the insanely tall girl beasts during NYC's Fashion Week? Gotta be the Maritime Hotel where Jared Leto brought Lindsay Lohan back to his room, Paris Hilton chatted with Naomi Campbell, the Rosa Cha/M.A.C. Party took place, and the big...
September 15, 2005
How To Access The Maritime Hotel VIP Area
We always knew the Maritime Hotel was the sort of place that might have a 7 1/2 floor, or a beanstalk to a warp zone, turns our we were right, sort of. According to our sources, if you cut through the Maritime restaurant, acting like you are eating there,...
August 12, 2005
Hotel Slang
Every so often the clever girls behind Daily Candy introduce the Lexicon. Often its full of silly names to call boys who never call back or rude sales girls who won't sell you the same pair of shoes Gywneth Paltrow once bought. But this time, the Lexicon calls out...
May 24, 2005
Manhattan's Pop Rooftop Hotels
Ok, you know we had to let you in on the Gansevoort's past, we are sure they have straightened out any issues, and are ready for the summer season. In any event, John Holusha's NY Times article on urban resorts really does give us a great lists of which...
April 18, 2005
Maritime Hotel: Porthole with a View?
[via Gawker] During our New York City hotel swing yesterday we were suppose to head to Chelsea and check out the trendy Maritime hotel, but alas, didn't make it. Luckily for us Gawker summed it up nicely for us yesterday. How did they know we got hung up in...
July 15, 2004
The Maritime Hotel: Forgetting Mystique
According to Page Six, John Stamos chose NYC's Maritime Hotel as his venue for getting over Rebecca. After years of marriage to Mistique, Stamos is ready for the next alien supermodel. Apparently, he booked the penthouse suite of the Maritime hotel in NYC for himself and an unidentified "leggy...
June 24, 2004
Partner Reviews: The Maritime Hotel
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Words cannot do the pizza knish justice. -
Kasha knish: A+ -
Love the Cherry Cheese! -
Try the red cabbage knish -
Since 1910 Yonah Schimmel has been making knishes for New Yorkers! -
Potato knish is where it's at... A dinner sized portion. -
The chocolate dessert knish is quite possibly the best chocolate treat NYC has to offer! -
This place is a neighborhood institution. My grandfather took my grandma here on one of their first dates. -
Try a chocolate egg cream. -
Roasted garlic and onion knish is OUT OF THIS WORLD good. -
You don't have to be Jewish to have a knish. -
One of my favorite foodie places in the city - can't go wrong with the broccoli or mushroom! Must try at least 2 at a time :D -
Try the Blueberry Cheese Knish and spot it on Foodspotting! -
sweet potato knish is the best! -
Try the 100 year old lactobacillus delbrueckii subspecies bulgaricus. -
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You can get a free rugalah of it's your birthday. (It's my birthday.) -
Go to Yonah Schimmel's Knish Bakery and get a potato or cheese knish! You won't regret it! :D
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