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 we were smelling was the hotel’s very own fragrance.

Yes, Crosby joins other boutique hotels—like the Greenwich Hotel and the Cooper Square Hotel—who can boast about their customize-scented bath products. And since Firmdale Hotels is British, so is their scent. ]]> MsRebecca 2009-09-30T13:20:08-05:00 40.7230140 -73.997405 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/7/23/104648/036 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/locandaverdebruni.jpg" class="top"> <p>Hehe. Remember when legendary NYT restaurant reviewer <b>Frank Bruni</b> hit up <b><A href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Greenwich+Hotel/local/1047">The Greenwich Hotel's</a></b> now-defunct <b>Ago</b> restaurant and deemed it <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/6/11/103934/827/hotels/Ago_at_DeNiro_s_Greenwich_Hotel_Gets_Zero_Stars_from_Frank_Bruni">spectacularly bad</a>, with a review that actually sort of made people wince with its harshness and zero-star rating (that hurts, you guys)? Well, Ago has since peaced out of the restaurant space and has been replaced by Locanda Verde, a spilling-onto-the-sidewalk casual-but-upscale restaurant headed up by chef Andrew Carmellini. <p>The Times gave the new restaurant the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/dining/reviews/22rest.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss">official Bruni treatment</a> yesterday. <p>Bruni declares LV "so vastly superior to Ago that it&#146;s sacrilegious even to mention the two in the same sentence," and pens a "groveling penance, a bent-knee litany of all that&#146;s improved" &#151; from Jenna 2009-07-23T10:49:17-05:00 40.7197331 -74.010184 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/7/21/104438/934

Wanna read like Bobby De Niro? The hotelier-actor has said that the comfy posh décor of his Greenwich Hotel reflects how he’d like to “do” his own house.

We’d quite like to follow suit, but until our budgets match Bobby’s we’re going to start with what’s on his bookshelves. To replicate that hip Greenwich library feel at home, we secured this shopping list and example of what you’ll find in this luxury hotel where rooms start at $525 a night.