http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T21:33:24Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Downtown%20Manhattan%20Hotels http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/4/18/122348/712 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/fourpointnycbed.jpg" class="top"><p> Looks like <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Gild+Hall/local/869">Gild Hall</a> in NYC's Financial District will be getting some company in a few years but it shouldn't worry too much as it's only a <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/four points hotels"><b>Four Points by Sheraton</b></a>. From the <a href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110407005218/en/Points-Sheraton-Heads-Downtown-Manhattan">BusinessInsider</a> last week: <blockquote><p>Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) today announced plans to bring its fast-growing Four Points brand to the epicenter of New York City&#146;s bustling downtown financial district. Four Points by Sheraton Financial District is scheduled to open in the summer of 2013, just four blocks from Wall Street. </blockquote></p><p>The hotel will be located on Platt street in a newly constructed building with 264 rooms and a rooftop lounge.<p> There's already Four Points Hotels in juliana 2011-04-18T16:02:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/9/2/9032/75330 <![CDATA[<p><i>You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the <a href="http://flickr.com/groups/hotelchatter/">HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool</a>, or by <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">sending the photo along to us</a>. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.</i><P><Img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/duaneantiview.JPG" class="top"><p>...we had this view from room <b>306</b> at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Duane+Street+Hotel/local/118"><b>Duane Street Hotel</b></a> juliana 2010-09-02T12:11:31-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/9/2/84319/10184 <![CDATA[<p><p> <i>We are suckers for a room with a killer view. &nbsp;We find that we are even more likely to forgive some minor hotel inconveniences if we can stare out the window at something pretty--yeah we are that shallow. Let's help out our fellow hotel mavens by uploading rooms with killer views to the <a href="http://flickr.com/groups/hotelchatter/">HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool</a>, or by <a href="mailto:tips@hotelchatter.com">sending the photo along to us</a>. We will feature our favorites in this space from time to time. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number of the hot view.</i><p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/sohograndview1.JPG" class="top"><p> Yesterday, we dished on the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/9/1/11629/12612/hotels/Inside_The_New_Soho_Grand_Suites">new suites</a> at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Soho+Grand+Hotel/local/87"><b>Soho Grand Hotel</b></a> assaulting you (in a good way!) with photos, juliana 2010-09-02T11:56:30-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/5/8/163119/5280 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/4912/nobu_downtown.jpg" class="imgborder"><p>We're giving up our half-hearted ban on Robert De Niro coverage now that he's got the <b>Nobu Hotel</b> in the works. <p>The Financial District property will be half-hotel, half-condo and include a spa and a Nobu restaurant outpost. (In case you can't make it the less than two miles to the Nobu in Tribeca.)<br> <p>The NY <i>Post</i> has it that 77 condos will be up top--where they belong--and the floors below will house the 128 hotel rooms. The restaurant will be on level three. Rockwell Group will handle the interiors, while Moed de Armas &amp; Shannon did the glassy facade.<br> <p>Curbed <a href="http://curbed.com/archives/2008/05/08/nobu_hotel_like_its_patrons_will_be_tall_skinny.php">notes</a> that this is one of many new condotel developments in the FiDi, joining the pbb 2008-05-08T16:44:02-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/4/23/94940/9916 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/viceroynyc.jpg" class="imgborder">We've had our suspicions for quite sometime that the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Viceroy%20Hotels"><b>Viceroy Hotel</b></a> brand would be coming to New York City and today we have official word:<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Kor%20Hotels">Kor Hotel Group</a>, a growing presence in world-class hospitality, is proud to announce its first hotel planned for Manhattan. <p> Viceroy's first New York City project will offer 168 exquisitely appointed accommodations set within the top 12 newly constructed floors of an office, retail and hotel complex being developed on a full city block at 330 Hudson Street between Charlton and Vandam Streets in New York's Hudson Square neighborhood.</blockquote></p><p>The Hudson Square area is adjacent to both Tribeca and SoHo but the Viceroy's location is actually just steps away from the Holland juliana 2008-04-23T09:52:46-05:00 40.727064 -74.007341 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/