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Crosby Street Hotel Construction Update: Getting Set for September

Where: 270 Lafayette St [map], New York, NY, United States, 100013

Is it bad that we have become so jaded and doubtful of a hotel's ability to open up as scheduled in this day and age (and by "day and age" we mean, of course, time and place: recession in the big city) that when we hear of a hotel on track to open a few months away, we sort of just sit back and wait for the delay announcements to come in? You know, for the delays to be delayed. Yeah, that's kind of bad, right?

Because it is, rather sadly, the first thing we thought when we'd heard the Crosby Street Hotel was still on track for an end-of-September opening (pushed back from March). The property is the first US outpost for London-based Firmdale Hotels, whose name was in papers this weekend because profits — yikes — had fallen 64%.

We checked in on the opening date, though, and a rep for the hotel promised the NYC property was still lookin' good for a September '09 go-time — and construction, per this shot the hotel sent us, seems to be coming along nicely. Also, we hear Firmdale has hired an artist who has been taking shots of the hotel's construction progress for the last year and they are "going to screen the result in their private cinema" when the hotel opens up.