The Standard East Village
Formerly, the Cooper Square Hotel, the hotel now belongs to hotelier Andre Balazs' Standard Hotels family.
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Hotel Coverage: The Standard East Village
Balazs Brings New Chef (and Restaurant!) to Standard East Village
André Balazs, the hunky hotelier behind the notorious Standard hotels, has announced he'll be bringing in a new chef to the yet-unnamed restaurant at The Standard East Village. Executive Chef John Fraser will don his toque when the restaurant opens this fall. The menu, which is said to be...
January 25, 2013
The Morning After: Le Parker Meridien's Empty, The Standard EV Is Missing A Balcony
If you had friends or family staying at Le Parker Meridien last night, you may want to give them a call and make sure they didn't end up sleeping in a cave in Central Park. As we predicted yesterday, the hotel was one of the buildings that had to be...
October 30, 2012
Things Sure Are Busy Down At The New Standard East Village
It may seem like all's quiet on the Eastern front, but a quick look around Standard East Village will prove there is indeed plenty of action going on. Since the hotel got taken over by Andre Balazs, various different construction sites have been popping up around the public spaces, though...
October 12, 2012
The Standard's New Attention-Grabbing Ads We Can't Ignore
We spy with our little eye...something that's weird and unsettling. Never one to back away from the odd or the outlandish, Standard Hotels have launched a new ad campaign that's running in highbrow magazines like Apartamento, ArtForum, Interview, Paper Magazine, and V. The content? Pretty people doing not-so-pretty things like...
September 12, 2012
Here's What Andre Balazs Has In Mind for The Standard East Village
At last, we have a better idea of what hotelier Andre Balazs plans on doing with his newest hotel in NYC--The Standard East Village, previously known as the Cooper Square Hotel.According to Eater, Balazs and his team won approval from the community board to add an additional bar in the...
May 22, 2012
Which Is Cheaper For Memorial Day Weekend, Brooklyn or Manhattan?
So, it's May 1, and you still haven't gotten around to booking that hotel room for your annual Memorial Day Weekend jaunt to NYC. And come to think of it, there sure are a lot of choices these days when it comes to a long weekend in the Big Apple....
May 01, 2012
We Spy With Our Little Eye, At The Standard East Village...
...a ping pong table! And real live guests are playing! We've all been a little a lot curious about what changes might be coming to the Standard East Village, ever since it officially took over the Cooper Square Hotel in December. So far, the place looks kinda the same. Same...
April 25, 2012
Andre Balazs Plans to Make Good with the Neighbors Around The Standard, East Village
Sorry, Andre is not quite sure what he wants to do with this space here.While the Cooper Square Hotel is officially now the Standard Comma East Village, not much has changed. And it might be a while before things do as hotelier Andre Balazs told the Wall Street Journal...
January 31, 2012
The Cooper Square Hotel is Now Officially The Standard East Village
Just the other night we were perusing hotels in New York City on a couple of booking sites and lo and behold, look at what we saw--the Cooper Square Hotel is now officially rebranded as Andre Balazs Standard East Village. We first got word of the hotel's Standardization back...
December 27, 2011
Andre Balazs Gets Closer to Turning Cooper Square into The Standard East Village
Confirming what we reported last month, sources tell Page Six that Andre Balazs will be turning the Cooper Square Hotel into another one of his Standard Hotels.The paper reports that the deal will be finalized today and that Andre will rename the property The Standard East Village (but we're...
November 18, 2011
The 11 Best Hotels in NYC: Fall 2011
This year has proven quite eventful on the NYC hotel front (then again, when hasn't it?). Hotels opened. Hotels closed. Hotels wore itsy bitsy tuxedo short shorts. And now, it is time to take stock of the hottest hotels on the NYC scene. As with all our reviews, commentaries, and...
November 02, 2011
If The Cooper Square Hotel Turned Into A Standard, What Would It Look Like?
We've heard rumblings that Cooper Square Hotel will probably turn into a Standard Hotel now that hottie hotelier Andre Balazs owns the place. AB's involvement with the hotel was already public knowledge when his signature was discovered on some liquor license documents back in September. Now, after the initial shock...
October 12, 2011
Andre and Chelsea Again...Handler, Not The Hotel
UPDATE, 10.11.11: While DNAInfo.com quoted Balazs as saying that they aren't going to turn the Cooper Square into another Standard, we are hearing the exact opposite now: The Cooper Square will be a Standard Hotel. We're furiously chasing down more leads and we promise more detes to come.So hottie hotelier...
September 30, 2011
Andre Balazs Now Owns Three Hotels In NYC (That We Know Of)
Well, we can't say we're surprised. Exactly a month after first speculating on Andre Balazs' possible takeover (thanks to a well-informed tipster) of the Cooper Square Hotel, we now have proof—in the form of a liquor license. What is it with liquor licenses today? An East Village blogger by the...
September 19, 2011
Is Andre Balazs Busy Taking Over The Cooper Square Hotel?
It's only been eight months since the last Cooper Square Hotel scandal, involving a potential buyout by Grand Hotels. Now, a new rumor is circulating that Andre "Boom Boom" Balazs is looking to take over the property as soon as September 1. An anonymous tipster alerted us to the takeover...
August 18, 2011
The Easiest Job Of Annie O's Life
Moroccan-born publicist Annie Ohayon has found her perfect job: curating a music series on top of Manhattan's Cooper Square Hotel. And she wants everyone to come. On Sunday, we caught African duo Amadou and Mariam performing there and saw just how popular the free concert series has become. Angelique Kidjo,...
June 09, 2011
What's up with The Trilby at the Cooper Square Hotel?
Third time's a charm? The seemingly cursed restaurant space at the Cooper Square Hotel—RIP Faustina and Table 8—welcomed its chapeau-inspired food-and-bev concept this Friday, and the early word on The Trilby is already trickling in. Will the lack of a star chef make this effort any more successful than...
February 28, 2011
Cooper Square Will Not Be Cooper Grand, Getting Yet Another New Resto in 2011
Last month there was a rumor going around that the Cooper Square Hotel in NYC would be sold to Grand Hotels--they of the Soho and Tribeca Grands. Well, Curbed reports now that the deal is off with reps for the hotel releasing the following statement "The Cooper Square Hotel...
December 28, 2010
Has The Cooper Square Hotel Been Sold to Grand Hotels?
UPDATE: A tipster tells us that there are some talks going on between Cooper Square and "Tribeca Associates and others" and that this deal could be wrapped up in a week or two. We'll keep you posted. Vanishing New York has posted an interesting little tidbit that a tipster...
December 06, 2010
The Cooper Square Launches a Summer Bazaar (And Wants You To Cleanse)
A wintry view of The Garden at the Cooper Square Hotel Last week we heard about New York's first hotel farmer's market—coming soon to Andaz Wall Street. But this weekend saw the launch of another kind of hotel market—the Summer Bazaar at The Cooper Square Hotel. The bazaar sounds...
June 21, 2010
The Cooper Square Hotel's New Restaurant Will Serve Sex in a Bowl
New York Restaurant Week officially ends this week, but when one door closes, another opens. Tomorrow, that door is at the Cooper Square Hotel, where Scott Conant's new restaurant, Faustina, makes its debut in the old Table Eight space. We could tell you all about the chic, grey design...
February 04, 2010
Inside The Cooper Square Hotel aka The Pretty Pak Hotel
Yes, the Cooper Square Hotel is home to the Pretty Pak--a make-up kit in the minibar that includes lip gloss, bronzer and mascara. (Shout out to Betrand for guessing correctly!)Now that the hotel is nearly a year-old, we've decided to see how it's faring. And away we go. Check-In: Check-in...
December 29, 2009
The Sunset Tower Hotel Won't Tolerate Drunk Make-Up Artists
Drunk Make-up artists! Table8 Closes at Cooper Square! Jimmy Buffett's Buffet Hotel! Miley's Barely There Shorts! It 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,...
December 18, 2009
Cooper Square Hotel Jumps on the Hotel Graffiti Bandwagon
Graffiti wall in progress at the Hotel Erwin in Venice, Calif. The Cooper Square Hotel, a giant modern glass building that popped up in the Bowery of NYC, is now trying to fit in with the gritty feel of neighborhood by hiring graffiti artists to paint the wall of...
November 02, 2009
The Soon-To-Open Crescent San Fran Now Has Rooms Starting at $105
The countdown to the opening of San Francisco's Crescent Hotel is on, with its official unveiling set for October 21st. Hotelier Gregory Peck staked a claim on prime Union Square real estate (the former Allison hotel), gutting the property and giving it a 'classic San Francisco with a modern...
October 05, 2009
Sniffing Around The Crosby Street Hotel
As we reported earlier this week, The Crosby Street Hotel opening was delayed due to an electrical problem. Which made us sad. We were so close to being in there we could smell it. But in our holding pattern, waiting for the new opening date, we realized that what...
September 30, 2009
The Crescent Hotel San Francisco Will Open October 21
Here at HotelChatter, we're so jaded about new hotel projects and predicted opening dates which never come to fruition, that we actually forgot about the plans for a Crescent Hotel San Francisco from hotelier Gregory Peck, the man behind Crescent Beverly Hills and the infamous Cooper Square Hotel. But...
September 18, 2009
Good Rate, Bad Rate: The Standard or Cooper Square For Labor Day?
[It's baaaacck! Welcome once again to our Good Rate/Bad Rate feature where we look at hotel prices in the same city and decide which one most deserves your hard-earned benjamins. Torn between two hotels? Send 'em to us and we'll help you pick the right one. Rates quoted here were...
September 01, 2009
Mischa, Model, and a Project Runway Winner Spotted at The Cooper Square
Our favorite celebrity sightings aren't recycled tidbits from TMZ, Perez Hilton, or the like, but those that come from our extended HotelChatter family. Whilst catching up with a fashionable New York woman-about-town earlier today, we were treated to a firsthand account of recent high-profile encounters, all taking place at...
August 19, 2009
Cooper Square Guests Like Their Books 'Arty' (And a Little Sexy, Too)
Hotels have gone gaga for books — but have the guests? We checked in with the Cooper Square Hotel’s librarian (aka head of sales, marketing and special events), Sandra Ardito, to find out.“It’s been incredible,” Ardito tells us. “We've had some guests that have purchased up to $1,000 worth...
July 09, 2009
The Cooper Square War Rages On, Now With D-Bags
We're not sure what kind of people hit up the Cooper Square Hotel's controversial outdoor terrace for drinks — hipsters? Preppy banker-types? Collar-poppers? Ed-Hardy-shirt-types? — but we can tell you one thing: the neighbors think they're douchebags. Or, at least, they'd like someone to notice that they have made...
June 25, 2009
Cooper Square's Neighbors Appear to Be Declaring (Panty) War
Oh, the hot drama with the Cooper Square's outdoor bar: we have yet another report of the up-this-close-to-the-hotel-bar neighbors getting miffed at the balcony partygoers — and after warning shots were fired in the form of a giant pair of soiled underwear hanging on the clothesline by the outdoor...
June 17, 2009
Quikbook's Newest Sale Offers The Cooper Square Hotel for $172 a night
We always love Quikbook's last-minute sales as they consistently deliver good rates for hotels that we actually like and not just hotels near the airports. Their latest NYC hotels sale features nearly all of the Thompson Hotels with Smyth Tribeca going for as low as $145 a night and...
June 16, 2009
The Cooper Square's Neighbors Hear Your 'Every Drunken Inanity'
Whoa. We thought the Thompson LES's neighbors had it bad — and they do, they really, really do — but we supposed the Cooper Square Hotel's neighbors were all about poopy-underwear and megaphone games. Until we saw this video. Yes, it's a bit dramatic with the text and captions...
June 12, 2009
The Cooper Square's Neighbors Really, Really Don't Want You Around
Surprise, surprise: that gigantic pair of underwear hanging on a clothesline overlooking the Cooper Square Hotel's newly-opened second-floor bar was, in fact, the doing of a disgruntled neighbor (and by "neighbor" we mean "person whose apartment window is pretty much right up against the bar terrace.") Residents are waging...
May 28, 2009
The Cooper Square's Terrace is Already Pissing People Off
Ah, something awesome is about to begin — well, awesome for us to watch; maybe not so awesome for the people involved. The ol' Cooper Square Hotel — whose battle with the residents of the surrounding tenement buildings has been bitter and, well, going on since the hotel was...
May 20, 2009
Jennifer Aniston Ate at Cooper Square's Table 8 Before You Did
We give the Cooper Square a pretty hefty amount of garbage for their panty-views (see here and here, in case you haven't been in on the fun) and their occasionally non-functioning website and whatnot, so we'll be nice today and deliver some good news: we called the hotel this...
May 07, 2009
Another Yummy Underwear-View Situation at The Cooper Square
When the Cooper Square first opened, we saw panties in the window. The panty-view was part of what appeared to be some kind of in-room underwear shoot — but the panties stayed on (unlike a recent photoshoot at fellow trendy Manhattan newcomer The Standard, during which nothing except dirty...
May 05, 2009
Tribeca Film Fest Lures Katie Holmes to The Cooper Square Hotel
With the Tribeca Film Festival in town through May 3, the hip hotels of New York City are absolutely gushing with celebs drinking in the lounges, dining in the on-site restaurants, or simply partying it up on the rooftop. One such property reaping the love of thirsty starlets and...
April 27, 2009
The Cooper Square Hotel Joins Your Old Beanie Babies on eBay
We cannot imagine the folks behind the Cooper Square Hotel feel that this is doing good things for the newly-opened, supposed-to-be-trendy hotel's image: Curbed reports that some of the hotel's friends and family vouchers have landed on eBay. Ha! The seller says: I have a few of these certificates...
April 22, 2009
Is The Cooper Square Hotel Secretly Designing a Donut Room?
We know that donuts are the new cupcakes and all, but what is going on with the Cooper Square Hotel's so-called Donut Room? A snooping room sleuth, Construction Graffiti, was conveniently having a few cocktails at the Cooper Square Hotel the other night and used slight inebriation as an...
April 14, 2009
The Cooper Square Gets Celebs, None of Whom You Know
Celebs are going to the Cooper Square! Well, "celebs" in the sense that these are people famous enough to land themselves on Page Six — and famous enough to land the Cooper Square on Page Six, helping it make baby-steps toward becoming a new NYC celeb hotspot. Per yesterday's...
April 10, 2009
Rates at the Hudson Are Down to $119
Wow. We knew prices in NYC were dropping lately, but jeez. We were poking around on Quikbook's latest New York Hotel sale (which ends this afternoon! Get lookin'!) and saw the Gossip Girl-approved, but sorta-yesterdays-news Hudson Hotel listed from $119. Seriously. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. We also...
April 03, 2009
The Cooper Square Hotel Website Now 'Fully Functioning'
Last week, we ran into some frustration with the Cooper Square website and we couldn't help but wonder if the lack of exterior photos and room shots were due to a faulty internet connection or because Cooper Square was going for a minimalist web design. Well, the hotel folk...
March 24, 2009
Cooper Square's Minimalist Website Has Minimal Functionality
For so long, we've always said the Wynn Las Vegas website was the worst of hotel websites out there. While pretty enough, the site takes forever to load and then Steve's voice comes from out of nowhere to tell you what you're looking at. It's probably one of the most...
March 19, 2009
Finally, Cooper Square Opens Its Bar
With so much travel news raining down on us, we don't always have time to give every story its own forecast. Here's more of the day's news, in brief. · Residence Inn Gets Hit By Truck: Seriously, a truck ran into the ground floor of a Residence Inn in...
March 12, 2009
Tablet Gently Ushers You Into the World of Soft Openings
We've been telling you for ages now that stalking an upcoming hotel to find out about its soft opening — that is, that shaky period when the hotel opens its doors before every part of the hotel is up and running and fully functional — can score you a...
February 24, 2009
Cooper Square a Perfect Stay Except For the Unexplained $120 Charge
We checked in on the recently-opened Cooper Square Hotel back in December when it had only been up and running for a few days. The reviews were glowing, but we weren't quite sure of the authenticity — sometimes those TripAdvisor customer reviews are just a little bit too glowing...
January 22, 2009
Quikbook's 72-Hour NYC Sale Offering Crazy Deals
While we're waiting on these NYC hotels to open up in 2009, these hotels are already open — and thanks to Quikbook's 72-hour-sale, they're discounted. Get 'em while they're hot, folks. · Six Columbus from $112: This is a freaking good deal. This Thompson property won our Worst Hotel...
January 06, 2009
Worst Hotel Hype :: The Cooper Square Hotel
Worst Hotel Hype: Cooper Square Hotel Because the people behind the Cooper Square Hotel will no doubt be offended by this award, we need to clarify that winning this award does not necessarily mean this is a bad hotel. Take for instance last year's winner, Six Columbus. The hotel was...
December 30, 2008
First Cooper Square Reviews Are Glowing
The first two guest reviews of the long-delayed, half-open Cooper Square Hotel have come into TripAdvisor and they both happen to be glowing. Imagine that! Now, we're not entirely sure who wrote these reviews, as both mention how the CSH is different from every other hotel in Manhattan and...
December 30, 2008
Pants Drop, Panties Stay On at Cooper Square
Happy Friday — here's a half-nudie lady in the window of the Cooper Square Hotel! Really, though: last Friday, a Curbed tipster was peering across the street at the just-opened Cooper Square Hotel (it had been open for two days at that point), and imagine said tipster's surprise when...
December 19, 2008
Cooper Square Is Open But Restaurant and Bar Are Not
What has been the modus operandi for Thompson Hotels has seem to become a boutique hotel industry norm. The Cooper Square Hotel has joined the ranks of hotels who open their restaurants a few months after they open the rooms.Eater has the full report on Table 8 by Govind Armstrong.A...
December 16, 2008
The Cooper Square Hotel Finally Opens Today
The long-awaited Cooper Square Hotel is opening today and normally for a new hotel in Manhattan we would be putting on our best clothes, straightening our hair and zipping up our new hooker boots to go and check it out. But today we're just "meh."We've had a long history of...
December 11, 2008
The Cooper Square May Be the Nightmare Before Christmas
Excited to check out the almost-finished building facade, we headed downtown to stalk The Cooper Square Hotel today. We snapped this photo around 10:30 am — and yes, this is the scene at the same Cooper Square Hotel that is supposed to open up on Thursday. As you can...
December 09, 2008
Are Bookshelves the Latest Hotel Craze?
As we've been poking around new hotels that have opened recently, we are noticing a trend--Bookshelves. Hotels are trying to not only appeal to your nightowl tastes with their fancy celeb chef restaurants and their dark mysterious lounges but also to your inner bookworm.Some examples of bookshelves in new...
November 12, 2008
What's Wrong With These Pictures of the Cooper Square Lobby?
This morning, our friends over at Curbed pointed us toward World Architecture News' feature on the Cooper Square Hotel, which spotlighted the first-ever photos of hotel's lobby and finally offered an explanation of the building's curious shape. (It was actually meant to evoke "a face starting small at the...
November 04, 2008
Cooper Square Almost Open, Looks Just Okay
Curbed has posted some snapshots of a long-awaited, $375-a-night Cooper Square Hotel guest room and well...don't get too excited. It's just a'ight. We kinda hope the place would be mind-blowingly cool on the inside, given its crazy architecture. But it just looks safe to us. Even Curbed commenters think...
October 17, 2008
The End is Nigh :: Cooper Square Hotel Has Soft Opening Rates at $275 a Night
Luxist did an interview with young Gregory Peck, the hotelier behind the it's-never-gonna-open, wait-maybe-it-is, oh-wait-no-it's-not Cooper Square Hotel. In the interview, he talks mostly about how he feels about the state of the hotel industry and not so much about the Manhattan property specifically. But our fave quote was...
October 08, 2008
Snapshot :: Does Anyone Even Care About The Cooper Square Anymore?
Jebb was so kind as to drop a gift into the HotelChatter Flickr Pool for us: check out this photo of the Cooper Square Hotel shedding its scaffolding. He adds on his website: The Dildo of Darkness [Ed Note: LOLz] had its entryway scaffolding removed on 3rd Avenue this...
September 09, 2008
Snapshot :: The Cooper Square Hotel Gets Curtains
Thanks to Jebb who put this snapshot in the HotelChatter Flickr Pool, we now see that the Cooper Square Hotel has curtains. And they aren't fugly rainbows like the Standard NYC! The Cooper Square Hotel is still set to open sometime this fall. Go here for the full photo. ...
August 22, 2008
Gregory Peck Gets Serious About Cooper Square
This summer is shaping up to be the summer of hoteliers in magazines. The latest to join the group is Gregory Peck who gets all serious in the Sur la Terre magazine about his hotelier business (Sorry, no online link available!)The piece is just a simple Q&A with Peck about...
August 14, 2008
Klaus Ortleib Dishes on Cooper Square to GQ:: "Everything Except Hookers and Drugs"
Klaus Ortlieb, the man who has scooted in as the third "partner" in the beleaguered Cooper Square Hotel did a feature spot in GQ magazine (sorry, no online link) where he dishes on his favorite things--in and out of hotels.What we learn about Klaus, the former manager at the uber-cool...
August 07, 2008
The Cooper Square Hotel Has a Website and Might Even Open Eventually
Well, folks: hell seems to have frozen over. The Cooper Square Hotel has a website. Yes, you read that correctly. It's totally bare-bones and has no real content on it, but it gives us hope that the hotel will in fact open someday. The hotel has been delayed forever...
July 22, 2008
Know Your Manhattan Hoteliers
Ask and you shall receive. In a story the other week about the possible cold war thaw between feuding hoteliers Gregory Peck and Matt Moss (actually, that was just wishful thinking. The frenemy war rages on still), we asked for a copy of the Page Six magazine featuring some of...
June 23, 2008
The Cooper Square Hotel :: Will It Ever Open?
Not much new to report here folks. Cooper Square Hotel is still not open. And it still has no website. So we're highly skeptical of a late summer opening which was the last predicted date for the hotel (after the April/May 2008 time frame came and went)Indeedy, we are even...
June 13, 2008
Snapshot :: Cooper Square Hotel Nearing Completion
Jaunted editor Paul Brady snapped this shot of the Cooper Square Hotel two weeks ago.While the hotel is nearing completion on its exterior, the hotel isn't going to open until late Summer. That is if all the drama amongst the feuding hoteliers doesn't rise up again. There's still no website...
May 09, 2008
HotelChatter Flickr Pool :: Vacation Pics
Technically, this should win a Killer View of the month award but we decided to use it to draw your attention to the latest snapshots in the HotelChatter Flickr Pool.This one was taken by NotoriousMEG at the Hotel Rosa Alpina in Italy. In the interest of full disclosure, Meg is...
April 01, 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: Guess What? Matt Moss and Gregory Peck Don't Like Each Other
Dear Diary, We can't believe it! Matt Moss and Gregory Peck, once besties growing up on Long Island, are like totally never speaking to each other again.We kinda figured there was some trouble brewing when we interviewed Gregory Peck over the summer about the Cooper Square Hotel and he couldn't...
February 27, 2008
Matt Moss Thinks Tenement Laundry is Something You Want to See When Paying $500+ A Night
We must have missed this over the MLK Holiday but we were recently googling the drama-plagued Cooper Square Hotel yesterday and we came across this article in the NY Times from January 20th.The topic is how NYC developers are working around tenants who refuse to move or be relocated. This...
February 14, 2008
Cooper Square Hotel Not Until Summer
In all the hype about DeNiro's Greenwich Hotel and the transformation of the Hotel Riverview we had completely forgotten about another NYC hotel that's supposed to open soon, the Cooper Square Hotel.The NY Times reported the other week that the hotel won't open until Summer. Previously, we had heard an...
January 31, 2008
Snapshot: Cooper Square Looks Almost Done
Flickr member Jebb of the East Village Podcast has dropped in a new photo of the Cooper Square Hotel in Manhattan. The exterior looks almost done but with a string of recent hotel delays affecting NYC and the rest of the hotel world, we don't think Cooper Square will open...
December 26, 2007
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
He's Not Imaginary or Invisible Anymore: Matt Moss Speaks Out on Cooper Square
In a New York article, Matt Moss finally weighed in on the Cooper Square Hotel, a project he's developed with his frenemy Gregory Peck.The hotel's backers are looking to buy three adjacent lots and the residents are to say the least, concerned. As you know, this is a pretty feisty...
November 14, 2007
Inside the House of Klaus
Some more hotelier news for you. The NYT Escapes section took a visit to Klaus Ortlieb's upstate weekend house in Pine Planes, NY. Ortlieb, if you didn't know, was most recently responsible for opening and managing THOR on Manhattan's LES. He also spent time working for other big hoteliers, Andre...
October 30, 2007
Gregory Peck and Matt Moss: They Was Just Frontin'
Cooper Square Hotel, September 2007.A while back we wrote about how hotelier Gregory Peck was definitely still involved in the Cooper Square Hotel project but as we did, we noticed some obvious cracks in the friendship/work relationship with co-developer Matt Moss.We couldn't get Matt Moss to speak with us and...
October 08, 2007
Gregory Peck to Expand The Crescent Beverly Hills Brand
In our chat earlier this month with hotelier Gregory Peck, we were first anxious to know what the heck was going on with the Cooper Square Hotel. Peck dished the detes of the project from his definite involvement in the hotel all the way down to what to expect inside...
September 27, 2007
Snapshot:: Cooper Square Construction Continues
Now that Six Columbus is taking reservations, we have half a mind to lay off the New York hotel scene and its never-ending delays. But with so many other projects to spy on, we just can't bring ourselves to do it. So the other day when we were walking down...
September 26, 2007
Gregory Peck Talks Cooper Square
A HotelChatter ExclusiveThe new luxury boutique hotel, Cooper Square Hotel, is rapidly rising in NYC's Bowery neighborhood. Its construction has been heavily chronicled here and on NYC blogs from the first design rendering ("full frontal") to the "high tech glass panels" Curbed spotted on the sidewalk last week. And don't...
September 10, 2007
Interview with Gregory Peck-- Draft
A HotelChatter ExclusiveHotelChatter sat down with hotelier Gregory Peck, he of the Crescent Beverly Hills Hotel and the much-talked about upcoming Cooper Square Hotel in NYC's Bowery neighborhood.Last we heard of Peck he was "out" at Cooper Square and that his partnership with developer, and old high school friend, Matt...
September 06, 2007
Cooper Square is Still Alive and Rising But a Liquor License is Looking Doubtful
Last time we checked in on the The Cooper Square Hotel there was some speculation that the hotel was being torn down before it even began. But alas, the hotel will continue to rise.Meanwhile, Eater reports that the hotel was pretty much denied a liquor license for their outdoor terrace...
July 20, 2007
Cooper Square Hotel No More?
Curbed is speculating today that the Cooper Square Hotel project might be over.The site has posted numerous pictures (like this one) of the construction and reports that construction crews have been "seen using jack hammers to chew away at those crazy concrete columns" meaning that the hotel could be a...
July 06, 2007
Gregory Peck Still Out at Cooper Square
Yesterday a curious tipster asked us if it was really true that Manhattan hotelier Gregory Peck was kicked off the Cooper Square hotel project, saying there was a rumor going around that Peck would handle "money and PR stuff."Today, we learn our tipster answered their own question. They write in:...
May 02, 2007
Is Gregory Peck Still Onboard at the Cooper Square Hotel Project?
The last time we checked in on the Cooper Square Hotel project, Gawker reported that Gregory Peck (yes, the hotelier, not the actor) had been removed from the venture.But a tipster who lives next door to the site has heard differently:I live right next door to the site. Myself and...
May 01, 2007
Gregory Peck Booted from Cooper Square Hotel Project
In this episode of The Young & The Restless Manhattan Hoteliers....Gawker is reporting that some serious shit is going down with Gregory Peck's (not the actor) Cooper Square Project.The Peck Moss Group is no longer. The board two weeks ago decided to be done with Gregory Peck, one half of...
April 06, 2007
Cooper Square Hotel Full Frontal
Over at Curbed we caught our first glimpse of The Coop, Greg Peck's (of Crescent Beverly Hills Hotel fame) new Manhattan project. The developers of the hotel, the Peckmoss Group, originally told the neighbors that this area at the corner of 5th and The Bowery would be a lush...
February 15, 2007
Partner Reviews: The Standard East Village
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Awesome movie night every Wednesday night!!
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Come on a Tuesday night and leave the bartender, Bianca, a huge tip. She is super sexy! -
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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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