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Where to Stay for the Tribeca Film Festival
Movie buffs are getting ready to hit up the 12-day Tribeca Film Festival from April 20 to May 1. If you plan on visiting New York City to join other movie-goers at the fest, book your hotel now—last year, the event drew 410,000 cinephiles, filmmakers and actors.
Of course, you'll want to stick close to the trendy Tribeca 'hood to be in the middle of all the action. Here are some hotels that are still open for next week's 10th annual festival.
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Looks Like Another Budget Hotel Is Coming To Tribeca
New York budget hotel mastermind Sam Chang is back to work on his stalled Tribeca property at 99 Washington Street, the last rumors of which we heard in 2007. Seems work on the 44-story project will finally recommence, at least according to a tipster who sent us a report in The Tribeca Trib, which says that Chang and his partners will present the latest plans at a March 2 community board meeting. The report also says it's slated to become a Holiday Inn.
According to previously disclosed details, the hotel is meant to have 350 rooms. Gene Kaufman Architects, of the Tri-Pack Hotel and Hotel 373 among others, will handle the design. (They're aiming for 400 rooms in the $50 million project.) Along with ground-floor retail, there will be an eight-floor "street wall" before the tower footprint shrinks as it rises, which would open up a potential outdoor terrace. This would all compliment Chang's development nearby at 50 Trinity Place, slated to be a 35-story hotel—but also currently stalled.
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Bed, Breakfast and Theater On the Cheap at Tribeca's Canal Park Inn
Hello, gorgeous.
We've been so focused on the big New York openings this year that the Canal Park Inn, a country cottage-style bed and breakfast right by the Holland Tunnel, that opened in October, would have slipped under our radar if it weren't for the eagle eyes of the Tribeca Citizen. What's happening at the four-room hideaway in the northwest corner of the nabe, that's attached to the Canal Park Playhouse (hence they market it as "bed, breakfast and theater")?
The four rooms are quite large by New York–hotel standards, and several have alcoves with sofas that fold out into secondary beds. The place is full of historical character—all rooms have claw-foot tubs, and the stairs and door frames are far from new-build. (Modernity isn’t entirely forsaken: Several rooms have either a kitchen or kitchenette; Batby has a washer/dryer; and the rooms facing Canal are incredibly quiet, thanks to triple-glazed windows.)
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Conrad New York to Open Later This Year (With a Shake Shack!)
Last week, we were called out on our Master hotel Openings List for 2011 because we forgot the luxury brand of Hilton Hotels like the Waldorf-Astoria Collection and Conrad Hotels. Even worse, we totally forgot that Conrad was opening a hotel in New York in 2011 in the Financial District.
Officially called the Conrad new York, the hotel will be located at 102 North End and Vesey Street and will have 463 guestrooms starting at a seriously spacious 550-sq.ft., a 15-story atrium lobby with a dramatic Sol LeWitt art piece rising 13 floors behind the check-in desk, and three restaurants from NYC restauranteur Danny Meyer, including a second Blue Smoke restaurant, an unnamed upscale dining spot and another Shake Shack.
And the Tribeca Citizen points out that the hotel (on the old site of an Embassy Suites) will also have a:
green roof (with an herb garden for Danny Meyer), as well as a roof lounge that will be operated by the hotel but open to non-guests. The lounge will be small—1,300 square feet, with an occupancy of around 65 people.
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The Penthouse at the Greenwich Hotel to Get Downsized (And Then Will It Finally Open?)
While the regular rooms are spacious enough at Robert DeNiro's Greenwich Hotel in Tribeca, if you'd rather stay in the penthouse suite, you're gonna have to wait a little bit longer.
New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission has ordered the hotel to make their penthouse roof smaller. Apparently, the initial building plans for the hotel were approved without the inclusion of a penthouse. The penthouse was built anyways, much to the landmarks commission's dismay. The hotel's architect then had to come up with a new plan for the roof which was approved today.
Curbed has the architectural detes on the new designs:
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Kim Kardashian Is Making One Hotel Doorman a Very Happy Man
Everyone knows The Kardashians have taken over The Smyth Hotel in Tribeca as Kim and Kourtney film a spin-off TV show that follows them as they open an NYC fashion boutique.
Now, some folks might be turned off by the amount of paparazzi hanging around the joint but from the picture, it looks like this hotel doorman is loving his new guests. We just hope Kimmy and co. are tipping him for his efforts!
Planning on getting close to the Kardashians on your next trip to NYC? Let's take a glance at the room rates. This weekend, a queen superior room was found on the hotel's website for $419 a night. The following weekend that rate jumps to $429 a night.
On Quikbook.com, the rates weren't that much different--about 5 percent off. (But the brand-new James Hotel was available for $387 a night.) The Smyth hotel wasn't listed on Expedia at all but TabletHotels.com had a room for $395 a night.
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The Kardashians Move into Smyth Tribeca as Does the Toro Bar
Whenever there's another Kardashian TV show spin-off, you can be assured that another hotel will get caught in the Kardashian girls web of drama. This time it's the Smyth Hotel in TriBeCa.
Kourtney and her baby daddy will shack up here while Kourt and sister Kim will launch their Dash boutique somewhere in the city. (Khloe will presumably be orking on making a baby with hubby Lamar Odom back in LA.) NY Post reports:
They'll be using a penthouse at the Smyth Hotel for three months while they expand the family business and find Kim a man. A source said Scott Disick and baby Mason will live in the penthouse with Kourtney for the shoot, with the intention of relocating the family to New York permanently.
There's no word on when the family will move in (it could be happening right now!Toro Bar will be such a good idea, although we're personally excited about the space.
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Meanwhile, Not Too Far From the Soho Grand....
You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.
...we had this view from room 306 at the Duane Street Hotel in Tribeca, approximately a four-minute cab ride away from the luscious suites at The Soho Grand.
Sure, this is New York and we could be staring at a brick wall or a dirty air shaft. We're probably lucky that we have a view at all, especially for the rate we paid of $159 a night. But still, the odd assortment of shops on Church Street (wide feet shoes and Domino's anyone?), which looked closed most of the time, had us a bit depressed. Maybe our next series should be Hotels Under $200 with Killer Views of Manhattan. Any suggestions?
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Inside The Duane Street Hotel in Tribeca
Congrats to David Jeffrey, Camille Eslick and ApollyonMastema for correctly guessing the smart and simple hotel last week--The Duane Street Hotel which also has a sister property in Brooklyn in the NU Hotel.
We scored a great rate on Quikbook.com through their Secret Sale option for $159 a night which included breakfast and WiFi. Considering that we were only going to be in the room from about 5:30pm to 9am the next day, we thought this was a great deal and we didn't care too much for a giant room with a killer view.
Well, we definitely didn't get that but we didn't expect for much of the hotel's lower level and its restaurant, 'beca, to be under construction. And we also didn't plan for a subway to constantly rumble under the hotel either. But first, let's get the hotel basics out of the way....
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Renee and Bradley Dine with His Folks at the Tribeca Grand Hotel
It's not only during the Tribeca Film Festival that the Tribeca Grand Hotel sees celebs. The Daily Mail spotted Renee Zellweger and Bradley Cooper dining with his folks at the hotel yesterday.
We're guessing they ate at the hotel's restaurant, The Church Lounge, which begins lunch service at 11am. While Tribeca Grand still holds a lot of clout as far as downtown hotels go, this is a bit of an unusual stop for such high-wattage stars. But perhaps a low-key, nearly forgettable scene is just what they were hoping for.
However, we hope Renee was not fishing for compliments on her outfit as the Daily Mail did not, DID NOT, like her get-up. Like, at all.
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Plein Sud at Smyth Tribeca is Now Open (and with a 'Top Chef' Too)
Do you remember the Smyth Tribeca? It opened back in February 2009 but compared to its social siblings in the Thompson Hotels collection, Smyth is often forgotten about, largely because it lacks any sort of nightlife scene. However, that should change now that its restaurant, Plein Sud, from restaurateur Frederick Lesort, is finally open.
The restaurant has actually been soft-opened since April but without a liquor license, meaning guests had to drink in the bar area before dinner or after but not during. (Our friend tried to go there for a first date once and found out this crucial, potentially disastrous bit of info.)
Now that the grand opening is today, we're finding out some other crucial bits of info. Like that Plein Sud's executive chef is one Ed Cotton, formerly of BLT Market and db Bistro and soon-to-be seen on "Top Chef Season DC". So we're not quite sure how he's faring considering that when he filmed this show, Plein Sud was most definitely not open. But perhaps he's been working all this time on these tasty-sounding dishes?
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Locanda Verde is Worth The Long Wait (But Make a Rezzie If You Can)
Over the weekend, we had it in our mind that we were going to try out Locanda Verde, the new-ish Italian restaurant inside The Greenwich Hotel. If you recall, the hotel's restaurant used to be Ago and it was very poorly received. Fortunately, the hotel quickly made a change and installed Chef Andrew Carmellini to introduce a laid-back, casual, Italian restaurant.
Casual? Yes. Italian? Mmm...yes. Laid-back? Hmm...not quite. Not on a Saturday night anyways.
Like all hot restaurants in Manhattan (Eater has named it an essential restaurant in NYC), reservations are required early. And if you don't have a reservation, prepare to wait.
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