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Matt Moss Thinks Tenement Laundry is Something You Want to See When Paying $500+ A Night

Where: 27 Cooper Square [map], New York, ny, United States, 10003
February 14, 2008 at 9:20 AM | by | Comments (3)

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 is actually something that Gregory Peck told us about when he talked Cooper Square last summer.

The hotel is attached to a four-story tenement building which will not be torn down and will instead continue to house its long-time residents on the top two floors. The Cooper Square Hotel will keep offices on the second floor and basement.

We are a bit torn here because no one wants to see long-term residents booted for a large vibrator-shaped hotel but Matt Moss might be overreaching about his hotel guests' expectations.

Mr. Moss says he considers it an asset that guests in the $100 million hotel, which opens this summer, may peer down on a tenement roof where laundry is being hung out to dry.

"That's the kind of thing people want to see," he said.

Um...no. Granted this is NYC and most hotel room views are of a brick wall so looking at laundry could be an improvement. Yet saying that guests paying $500+ a night would want to see tenement laundry might be stretching it a bit.

Also, we think Matt may not have quite understood the whole hotel voyeurism trend. It's the guests who are supposed to be the objects of voyeurism, not the residents next door.

We wanna know what you think. Is laundry on the line an asset now when staying on the Bowery? Put your thoughts here.

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Is the Cooper Square Hotel going to start offering ShantyTown tours when it opens? I bet the hotel investors are going to love that!
juliana on February 14, 2008 at 9:27 AM #Permalink

NYC rooftops

Every hotel has a few rooms with "not-so-great views," it's inevitable. I'm not crazy about the design of the CSH, but it's clear that views from most floors of that building will undoubtedly be jaw-dropping. And yes, while looking out across the rooftops of NYC to the city skyline, you may see laundry drying, or any of the other exciting things that happen on city rooftops.
HighOccupancy on February 14, 2008 at 9:41 AM #Permalink

Rooftops

I'd agree that you shouldn't expect killer views from a Manhattan hotel... But do I want to see HVAC units and laundry and general trashiness? Not particularly, and not if I were to pay that much money for a night.

Of course, saying that, I'm gonna get pilloried for being a Bowery-gentrifying yuppie, but whatever!
pbb on February 14, 2008 at 1:03 PM #Permalink

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