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Who Did What and Where in This Week's Infamous Hotels

juliana — 2009-11-06T10:20:39-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/rihannagphinterview.jpg" class="top"> Strippers! Sex! Tell-All Interviews! Dead Bodies! Bad Rap Music Videos! It always seems that no matter how much <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/celebrity scoop">Celebrity Scoop</a> 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 Infamous Hotels. This weekly list will include hotels that celebrities visited (and it made the news) but also hotels that really up the "Eww" factor. This can easily be done by have a decaying body in your hotel. Welcome to the dark side. · <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+St.+Regis+Atlanta+/ian/309126">St. Regis Atlanta</a>: A stripper claims that she had <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebritynews/news/fergie-stripper-allegations-are-nonsense-2009511">"lots of sex"</a> with actor Josh Duhamel in

New York: Hot Restaurants Also Opening in Hot NYC Hotels This Fall

MsRebecca — 2009-09-10T15:28:50-05:00

The fashionistas are here! It’s official: New York Fashion Week has begun. And, frankly, the sight of all those models and rack-thin fashion editors makes us hungry. So to console ourselves, we compiled this nifty little list of upcoming hotel nosh spots that we’re already salivating over. Consider it the perfect culinary companion to our “September Issue” list of 10 Hot New York City Hotel Openings.

New York: Chace Crawford And David Blaine Make Magic At The Gramercy Park Hotel

JetSetCD — 2009-08-14T15:54:34-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/rosebarart.jpg" class="top"> GPH's Rose Bar. Do you see David Blaine? No? That's cause he made everyone disappear Usually when magician David Blaine is in New York, he spends his time hanging upside down from a crane or standing on a pillar in Bryant Park. This week must have been a good period of rest for the magic man, especially when he hit up the Monocle Magazine party at Ian Schrager's <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Gramercy+Park+Hotel/local/4">Gramercy Park Hotel</a>. Did he pull doves from underneath his hat or turn some water from the GPH Rose Bar into wine? Thankfully, <a href="http://blogs.fashionweekdaily.com/?p=18009">Fashion Week Daily</a> has the scoop: <blockquote>On Wednesday night, style magazine-cum-retail venture Monocle hosted a soirée at the Gramercy Park Hotel for a chic

New York: Can a Danny Meyer Restaurant Help the Gramercy Park Hotel?

Jenna — 2009-04-13T16:38:41-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/13diners_gramercy.jpg" class="top"> What do you do when your once-super-hyped, oh-so-trendy NYC hotel has suddenly become hype-free, is no longer <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/3/5/144126/9236/hotels/Gramercy_Park_Hotel_and_Other_Luxe_Hotels_Offering_Great_Deals">doing so well</a> financially, and to top things off its eagerly-anticipated restaurant <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/10/30/115359/27/hotels/Wakiya_at_Gramercy_Park_to_Close_Dec_21st">kinda flopped</a> when it opened? If you're<a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/ian schrager"> Ian Schrager</a> and if the property in question is the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Gramercy+Park+Hotel/local/4%22">Gramercy Park Hotel</a>, you bring in the big guns. And as any foodie knows, when it comes to restaurants in NYC, the "big guns" come in the form of a restauranter by the name of Danny Meyer. The <a href="http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/danny-meyer-checks-in-to-gramercy-park-hotel/">New York Times reports</a> that Mr. Meyer the man behind popular Manhattan restaurants like Union Square Cafe, Eleven Madison Park, Blue Smoke and Gramercy

New York: Gramercy Park Hotel Flaunting Their Deals on Social Networks

JetSetCD — 2009-03-20T11:32:06-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/GPH.jpg" class="top"> Looks like someone isn't exactly weathering the recession very well: Ian Schrager's goth-licious <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Gramercy+Park+Hotel/local/4">Gramercy Park Hotel</a> is humbling itself before the altar of hotel discounts to release some pretty sweet room offers for spring in Manhattan. First, the GPH hit the social networks, sending out an email blast to members of the invitation-only ASmallWorld, also known as pretentious Facebook for the older set. According to <a href="http://www.downbythehipster.com/blog/2009/3/19/gramercy-park-takes-to-the-social-networks.html">Down By the Hipster</a>, the elite member of the website would be privy to a buy-one-get-one-half-off deal, or as Payless likes to call it, a "Bogo." Normally we would ignore such a restricted offer, seeing as how we don't know a soul who even uses ASmallWorld except for the