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2009 New York City Hotel Openings Preview

We told you that the Hotel Hype machine would be alive and kicking in 2009 despite the gloomy-as-all-hell economic outlook for the hospitality industry and oh yeah, for the rest of the world. But 2009 is also shaping up to be a year with several new very cool hotels on the horizon, not just in New York but around the world. (All these were pipe dreams cemented no doubt in the boom hotel years from 2004-2006.)

So every Tuesday we are going to bring you a new edition of 2009 Openings Previews, starting today with the original--New York City. 2008 was a banner year for NYC hotels. Thompson opened up LES, feuding hoteliers Matt Moss and Greg Peck opened Cooper Square, Sean MacPherson is trying his hand at a hip budget hotel and Andre Balazs finally and barely just opened up The Standard NYC before 2008 took its last bow.

Those guys and their hotels are officially old news. Now, who's next?

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