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Five Hotels Downtown for the Yankee Ticker Tape Parade

So the New York Yankees won the World Series last night and we're sure The Hotel Indigo Chelsea has popped plenty of bubbly for their Philly guest losers. But the celebrations aren't over yet. The city of New York will throw a traditional ticker tape parade to honor the athletes tomorrow in downtown New York. The official route:

The parade will begin at 11 a.m. at Broadway at Battery Place and proceed northbound up the fabled Canyon of Heroes to City Hall, at Chambers St.

At City Hall, the Yankees will be presented with Keys to the City at 1 p.m. by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

You don't need a hotel room to watch the parade but it does make things easier. Since this is so last minute we fully expected hotels to bump up their rates for tonight, but surprisingly there are some deals. It's just a shame that Andaz Wall Street and W Downtown aren't open yet.

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Duane Street Hotel Restaurant Now Serving... Lunch

Where: 130 Duane St. [map], New York, ny, United States, 10013

The Duane Street Hotel is open, and its restaurant 'beca is now doing breakfast and lunch. A call to the hotel confirms that dinner service at the 40-seat lobby restaurant is still in the works.

In the meantime, the lunch menu is now up on the hotel website, and it looks decent. Some highlights:

Rocket with Fennel & Pomergrantes $10
Kobe Burger with Caramelized Onions, Goat Cheese & Rosemary Fries $16
Skirt Steak with Rocket & Rosemary Fries $17
Chocolate Terrine with Crème Anglaise & Pistachios $10
Smoothies: Mango, Lime & Ginger $6

But here's the thing: It's written for British tourists. No seriously. No one calls arugula "rocket" in the States. And smoothies? Who drinks smoothies for lunch?

Related Stories:
· Duane Street Hotel is Open, For Realz [HotelChatter]

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Lower Manhattan Four Seasons Opening in 2011

The Hyatt Andaz isn't the only hotel coming to New York's Financial District. Last month there were about 2,500 rooms in lower Manhattan; more than 3,700 are planned or already under construction. And one of the flashiest projects is the newly announced Four Seasons at 99 Church St.

The new construction is scheduled to start in June, and with an opening date sometime in 2011, we won't be spending the night anytime soon. Plans call for 175 hotel rooms and 143 condos, with a restaurant, lounge, spa and pool tacked on.

The hotel will need as many amenities as it can get. By the time it opens, the downtown W Hotel, a Wyndham Garden and that Andaz should all be well-established in the 'hood.

Related Stories:
· Four Seasons Says Downtown's Time is Now [Downtown Express]
· Four Seasons Hotels coverage [HotelChatter]

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Duane Street Hotel 'Could Open Next Week'

Where: 130 Duane St. [map], New York, ny, United States, 10013

As we inch toward 2008, it's time for another look at the Duane Street Hotel, the downtown Manhattan property we heard might be opening today. So? Not so much.

We called up to check, and sounds like Duane Street's just waiting on the city at this point:

We are taking reservations for January. We could open as soon as next week, but we haven't gotten the OK just yet.

If you want to be the first kid on the block to try it out, reservations are open for 2008. The hotel restaurant should be up and running soon after the hotel proper swings the doors open.

Related Stories:
· Duane Street May Open Before New Year's [HotelChatter]
· Duane Street Taking Reservations for 2008 [HotelChatter]
· Duane Street Staffing Up [HotelChatter]

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Semi-Real-Time Hotel Rate Check: Soho Grand

Where: 310 W. Broadway [map], New York, ny, United States, 10013

People tend to ask us a lot of hotel rate related questions--go figure.

Seeing that we love to help, or at least feign helpfulness, we figured we would take you through our case study of booking a hotel in downtown New York.

No single source will always net you the lowest hotel rate, as always, caveat emptor.

In our case we knew where we were staying: Soho Grand. Futhermore, our date was not flexible, October 24th was a must.

With this in mind we used three online methods and one analog method to book our room. Results post click.

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Tribeca Grand Talks Back To HotelChatter

Where: 2 Avenue of the Americas [map], New York, ny, United States, 10013

There is nothing better than a good old fashioned hotel rep mixing it up with us. And while we would much rather be hearing from a hotels General Manager, or at least someone in-house, hearing from some sort of hotel mouthpiece makes us smile, and is easily post-worthy.

After the jump, Maria Vu from Syndicate responds to our One Night At Tribeca Grand stay. In our humble opinion, PR folks can learn a lot from how Maria enters the conversation. As always, we welcome guests, hotel employees, and tipsters to enter the hotel conversation any way they wish--just remember to tell us who you are, cause we will find out anyway.

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