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Deskless at Smyth Tribeca

Where: 85 West Broadway [map], New York, NY, United States, 10007

Well, it happened: we spent a night at Smyth Tribeca. As we announced on Monday, Thompson's newest several-times-delayed property opened up yesterday — and we got in there last night after we scored a kickass rate of $107 through Quikbook.

We'll have tons of pics, a video tour and a full rundown of our experience tomorrow, but allow us to set the tone: upon check-in, imagine our surprise when we set our computer bag down on top of...this. Which is not a desk. We had no desk!

There was no desk chair (or anything that could be moved from another part of the room to function as a desk chair); though there were outlets, a lamp and a phone — all things that normally indicate that a piece of furniture is meant to be a workstation. Baffling; this was more of a dresser. Even if we had ordered a chair delivered to our room, we wouldn't have been able to sit at this desk because there are, as you can see, drawers and cabinets sitting where our legs would have gone.

We'd taken a tour of the property a couple of weeks ago and we're absolutely certain we'd laid eyes upon desks (with desk chairs!) in all the rooms we saw that day — perhaps room 511 is a rare exception? Anyway, you get the idea; the ol' back is hurting from working from our bed, so we'll bring you more later.