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New York : Hilton New York Honored With a 'Green Street' Award. Really.

Heidi Atwal — 2009-10-28T15:54:18-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/32083/hiltonmidtown.jpg" class="top"> Swarming with smog, exhaust, and buzzing with the din of taxis in neutral, New York's Avenue of the Americas is hardly a location we think of as being environmentally-considerate. A work in progress, maybe, with a little cheerleading needed to nudge it in the right direction. The "Green Street" Award was established by the Avenue of the Americas Association to inspire the thoroughfare's tenants to think eco and find new ways to close the loop. This year, the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hilton+New+York/local/299">Hilton New York</a> was honored, and not just because it hosted the ceremony in its Trianon Ballroom last week. Innovative eco-hotels are normally found bourgeois bohemian neighborhoods like the West Village or SoHo, so when we caught wind

New York: Libyan Dictator Might Be Ruling Over NY's Pierre Hotel Next Week

JetSetCD — 2009-09-11T09:19:53-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/Qaddafi.jpg" class="top"> We should have known that a picky dictator only picks the best hotels, regardless of availability of first-floor suites. We guess Libyan dictator Moammar al-Qaddafi doesn't read HotelChatter (thank god), because he sure didn't read our <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/8/31/92959/1294/hotels/Moammar_Takes_Manhattan_Top_3_NYC_Hotels_Picks_For_A_Picky_Dictator">Top Three Recommendations</a> for him during his stay in New York for his meeting with the good old United Nations. Instead, <a href="http://www.luxist.com/2009/09/10/gadhafi-may-bunk-at-the-pierre/">Luxist</a> did some sniffing around in the news to discover that suites have been reserved in Moammar and company's names at several properties not on our list, like <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Pierre/local/941">The Pierre</a>, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Plaza/ian/105314">The Plaza</a>, and <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hilton+New+York/local/299">The Hilton</a>. The current favorite seems to be The Pierre, whose rooms begin at $820 a night and have the Taj Pierre

New York: Obama's Hotel-Hopping In Manhattan And We Want To Come Along

JetSetCD — 2009-07-17T08:59:19-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/NaacpObama.jpg" class="top"> There'll be no Broadway play and fancy dinner with Michelle for Obama during this stop in New York. After last week's grueling family trip of international stops including Moscow, Rome and Ghana, President Obama made it back to the States just in time to close off streets in Midtown Manhattan during yesterday's evening rush hour. And what did he do while in The Big Apple? Why, it's our favorite pastime: some good old-fashioned hotel-hopping. After a speech in New Jersey, Obama's big city evening began at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hilton+New+York/local/299">Hilton New York</a> on Sixth Avenue, where he spoke at the NAACP's 100th Anniversary Convention. This hotel is truly the epitome of conference hotels in the city; we can

New York: Hilton New York Reopens Its Fitness Center

juliana — 2007-12-14T09:15:01-05:00

The Hilton New York has just completed a renovation of its 8,000-square foot glass-domed fitness facility that features floor-to-ceiling windows offering you killer views as you break a sweat.

The renovation added cushion flooring, Precor cardiovascular machines with personal entertainment on each machine and some new strength-training equipment. But have no fear if you fear working out in public. The hotel also offers private in-room yoga and Pilates workouts.

And for you Movie Set Hotel junkies the fitness center was used in a scene of Michael Clayton starring George Clooney.

New York: Hotel Video Tours: Hilton New York

pbb — 2007-05-24T09:10:44-05:00

<![CDATA[<object width="425" height="350"> <param value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EY12ZdZ3F-A" name="movie"> </param> <embed width="425" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EY12ZdZ3F-A" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="350"> </embed> </object> We stopped in at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hilton+New+York/local/299">Hilton New York</a> yesterday to check up on the room renovations that have been progressing since late last year. Things at the midtown mega-hotel seem to be coming along nicely, as you can see in our video tour of one of the property's 1,980 rooms. (About a third of them are finished to date, and the project should wrap up by late '08.) What might not show up in our tour are the cute little details. Things like granite counter tops, in-room safes big enough for laptops and nesting desks--surfaces that slide out of the way until you pull them