HotelChatter

This comment represents and speaks for all the tenants of "the jane hotel" formally known as the " hotel riverview". Only a small percent of us are left after a year of major harassment consisting of construction,bed bugs,rats and mice. sean macphearson and eric goode do not have any regards for humane rights and that is a fact. We have had to live with that fact,but not for long

While in NYC in 1999, and again, in 2000...I stayed at the Riverview. In those days, hanging on the wall in the lobby, were a series of b&w
photos...circa 1912. The photos featured primarily, seaman. They had just arrived in Manhattan. They were some of the survivors of the Titanic tragedy. Atop the building, in that era, was a searchlight. The same searchlight that is mentioned in the accounts of these survivors, as they sailed into the city. Many of those seaman stayed at the hotel, At
the time...it was exclusively maritime housing, I believe. Lying in bed, in that little room, as, uninviting as it was...I felt a special kinship with those survivors. If it served their purpose...it served mine, as well. I was honored and moved, by the experience! The last time I was there, the photographs had been removed. The searchlight was dismantled. It was certainly rundown...but the shower
water pressure was great. It was Summertime and as hot as the City could get. At night, I had no problem
sleeping with my door 'cracked.' I knew my floor-neighbors...they could be trusted! Downstairs, off the lobby, was an intimate, "off-off-Broadway theater."
"Debbie Does Dallas" premiered there. The immediate neigborhood was crawling with semi-high-society.

I take great exception to your, "dubious distinction" comment in your reference to the Titanic survivors. Explain, if you will...what exactly is dubious about the distinction?. The building was their salvation...their home...their miracle!!!