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Sean MacPherson Moves On From 'Gossip Girl'; Tries Modeling Instead
"Sometimes...when I get real nervous..."
It looks like a cameo on Gossip Girl wasn't enough for Sean MacPherson. The Bowery Hotel's Twitter tipped us off to the spread that Sean Mac did for the J. Crew Catalog. J. Crew, people. Clothes you can buy off the rack! How bourgeois!
The feature is available online here and it features Sean looking tough in a leather jacket and answering questions about his life. We learn how he likes his martinis (extra dry with three olives) and that he always carries his passport and a credit card wherever he goes. (Let's hope he has better passport-handling skills than Kristen Stewart.)
We also learn this incredibly helpful advice on how to get into a hot spot. "Start your own." Hmmm...should Andre Balazs be concerned or no?
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Chuck Bass Takes On Sean MacPherson on 'Gossip Girl'
We know that Sean Macpherson was traveling in Bhuktan last week but we sincerely hope he made it back stateside to watch himself on the last night's episode of "Gossip Girl."
In the episode, Sean played himself--a New York City hotelier--who Chuck Bass approaches with his nightclub plans (and tries to retrieve a Patrick McMullan photo of Sean.) Interestingly, Sean's hotel on the show was The Empire Hotel but we all know that he's the man behind The Bowery, The Maritime, The Lafayette House and The Jane Hotel as well as the restaurant, the Waverly Inn.
In the end, Chuck Bass thought, why own a nightclub in a hotel when you could buy the whole hotel? And that's exactly what plenty of young men with too much money probably did during the heyday of the hotel industry, guest services be damned. Seriously, Chuck Bass a hotelier? Then again, he does have the love and devotion of Blair Waldorf. We'll have to see how this turns out.
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The Jane Hotel Now Facing Neighborhood Angst
As if dealing with grumpy tenants wasn't enough, The Jane Hotel finds itself fighting another battle with folks who aren't too happy about its presence---the neighbors.
A blog and a Twitter feed called Nightmare on Jane Street have been setup to monitor/publicize all the crowds, events, and noise levels coming out of the Ballroom at the Jane Hotel. Example:
1:15 AM Update: Once again a crowd of over 100 people has congregated in front of the Jane Hotel hoping to get in with dozens more loitering in front of 99, 111 and 130 Jane. We counted six hotel employees in orange jackets lining the block from end to end attempting to manage the taxis–oddly, this doesn’t seem to have much of an effect on the noise.
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Libyan Dictator Might Be Ruling Over NY's Pierre Hotel Next Week
We should have known that a picky dictator only picks the best hotels, regardless of availability of first-floor suites. We guess Libyan dictator Moammar al-Qaddafi doesn't read HotelChatter (thank god), because he sure didn't read our Top Three Recommendations for him during his stay in New York for his meeting with the good old United Nations.
Instead, Luxist did some sniffing around in the news to discover that suites have been reserved in Moammar and company's names at several properties not on our list, like The Pierre, The Plaza, and The Hilton. The current favorite seems to be The Pierre, whose rooms begin at $820 a night and have the Taj Pierre Grand suites, which "can accommodate up to six connecting bedrooms under just one key and have landscaped terraces suitable for large-scale entertaining."
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Books & Board Games at The Bowery
Pick up a book or magazine at New York's Bowery Hotel, and you’ll feel the careful curation of co-owner Sean MacPherson. Surprised? We weren’t.
The master of cool details selects all of the vintage volumes and magazines himself, shopping up a storm at New York’s favorite used-book haunt, The Strand. Unlike other hotels, which rotate their libraries, the Bowery’s collection stays the same, and most of the books stick to a New York theme.
But as is becoming abundantly clear, MacPherson’s real passion is Hollywood. As the New York Times gushed earlier this year, MacPherson has quite the thing for movies like The Shining and A Clockwork Orange (both influences on the Bowery design). And while we’ve heard all about how The Jane’s ballroom references The Royal Tenenbaums, we’ve also learned that the Wes Anderson flick gets some mileage at The Bowery.
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The Jane Hotel Officially Opens Their Ballroom and Yes, You Can Drink There
There's been a lot of confusion in recent weeks about whether or not The Jane Hotel will be getting a rooftop bar and whether or not there is a liquor license on the property. But with the opening today of the hotel's ballroom, we can assure you that yes, you can drink here and you will have plenty of space to do so.
The Jane Ballroom is just a grand name for an expansive bi-level lobby bar. There is a narrow bar on the first level that's tucked away from the larger sitting area, giving it an intimate feel especially as its lined with fancy seat benches. Directly above that is another bar, complete with small tables and chairs and more sofa seating. This bar also overlooks the sitting area of the ballroom and from up here, you are nearly eye to eye with the giant weathered disco ball hanging from the ceiling. (It used to hang in hotelier Sean MacPherson's house in Los Angeles.)
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Jane Says...The Jane's Rooftop Bar Will Happen
We relayed a rumor (hello, we like "chatter" around here) yesterday that the Jane Hotel's upcoming rooftop bar/terrace was not gonna be a-happenin' because it had been voted down by the Community Board. This was really notsogood news — and it just seems like the hits just keep on coming for MacPherson's micro-hotel.
Of course, we checked in with the official peeps at Jane and they seem quite a bit more optimistic than our tipsters; but that's no surprise. The official word:
The rooftop will probably not open until the end of the summer but the date might change. The ballroom is set to open in May. F&B is still TBD but we will let you know when we have more details.
Hmm. But that's just what Jane says (like the Jane's Addiction song? Anyone?)
So we should be holding out hope, maybe? We'll keep an eye on the sitch and keep you updated as we hear more.
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The Bowery Hotel: Where Celebs Go To Breakdown
How did New York and its revolving population of distressed celebrities ever survive before The Bowery Hotel came to be? You'd think that it was created for the express purpose of holding launch parties and refined cocktail hours for downtown types, but no--people actually sleep here! Despite what you read in the gossip columns, it's a real hotel.
Open for barely two years already, The Bowery has quickly come to be known as the hotel for paparazzi to stalk during big events in New York, such as Fashion Week and the Tribeca Film Festival. Consider it The Dorchester Hotel for the States. Were we to detail all of the crazy tabloid stuff that has gone down here, we'd need to take a klonopin and the rest of the day off, and so we'll just stick to regaling you with the highlights:
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'Slumlord Fashion' at The Jane NYC
Today, we really wish that we could have brought you some stunning pictures of Cynthia Rowley's fashion show being held inside of the The Jane's revamped ballroom, but being on the list doesn't mean anything if the show is overfilled, and so we ended up just kicking it with the protestors across the street.
While the fashion types made the trek down from the Bryant Park tents to the far West Village for the show and queued up in the cold wind, a few Jane residents and their supporters held signs to draw attention to their position in the conversion of the property from SRO residency to hotel. In fact, a few of the signs were quite catchy, such as "are bed bugs the new black?"
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NYT Learns The Jane Will Be 'Like a Mansion in Decline'
Confirming a whole bunch of stuff that we reported on last summer (like the "Darjeeling Limited" look), New York Times checks in on the controversial Jane Hotel (winter promo rates now $75!) and its cinematic design influence.
Talking with hotelier Sean MacPherson about how he edits out the ordinary qualities of life in order to develop his hotel spaces into something "... slightly bigger and more storied than its guests and owners," The Times relays that The Jane is an amalgamation of nods to Wes Anderson films like Darjeeling and "The Royal Tenenbaums." When the public spaces are completed, the article continues, they will have a feel "more like a mansion in decline than a hotel."
Perhaps the most pronounced cinematic atmosphere comes with MacPherson's Bowery Hotel, which has gone the creepy way of invoking "A Clockwork Orange" and "The Shining," and yet it remains one of the hottest hotels in New York for splurging on a stay. Even the upcoming Mondrian SoHo is jumping on the bandwagon by channeling "La Belle et la Bete." So are hotels which look and feel like hotels out of style now? If it means that we can assume a cooler identify for ourselves while staying in such dramatic digs, then we're absolutely down for it.
[Official room photo: The Jane]
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Is The Jane Hotel About to Get a Lot Less Social?
Take this with a grain of salt: Page Six has declared Socialista "over." The exclusive restaurant/lounge in the The Jane Hotel's building — which the hotel was sort of banking on to make the hotel a bit more of a trendy, social place, though the two establishments were not affiliated at all — has had almost as many troubles as the hotel upstairs, but this may be the end of the road for Socialista.
A bit of background before we get to this gossip: at the end of the year, the sudden closing of Socialista brought even more drama to to the ever-growing list of issues at The Jane, the "micro-luxury" Manhattan hotel that has been plagued with controversy since its opening last fall. A little bit later on, we found out the sudden shuttering of the lounge was due to some issues with the health department (some rather unsavory things were, er, "dropped" on the floor, including ciggie butts) — but apparently the violation was no biggie and could have been fixed with a little cash fine and an apology.
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Why Socialista in the Jane Hotel Building Was Shuttered
We reported last week that the sudden closing of restaurant Socialista brought even more drama to to the ever-growing list of issues at the Jane, the "micro-luxury" Manhattan hotel that has been plagued with a list of woes since its opening this fall. To be clear, the Socialista club is not affiliated with the Jane itself; it simply rents the space in the building from the hotel.
But since most of the hotel's public issues have had to do with a fairly serious and public rift between hoteliers Sean MacPherson/Eric Goode regarding complaints and protests by the building's SRO tenants — who claim the living conditions in the building are not so good (rats, occasional water issues) #&151; the Health Department calling out an establishment in the same building certainly doesn't help the hotel's image at all.
Official word on what caused the Health Department to step in at Socialista, via Grub Street:
Socialista was closed on Sunday, December 21 following an inspection that found several critical violations, including a sewage backup in the establishment’s kitchen while servers were preparing food, a non-functioning hand washing sink in a food preparation area, and mice droppings in two areas, including a bar. The establishment was also found without a compartment sink in the bar area to sanitize glassware. On December 13, 2008, Socialista was cited for allowing patrons to smoke, providing ashtrays, and not posting “No Smoking” signs or a no smoking policy, as required by the Smoke Free Air Act. Socialista was again found in violation of the Smoke Free Air Act on December 21.
Yikes. Again, we hope everyone down at 113 Jane Street can come together and work in (clean, smoke-free) harmony by the time 2009 gets going.
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