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Finally, Ordering The Humble Pie At NYC's Standard Hotel Grill

Where: 848 Washington Street [map], New York, NY, United States, 10014

As you may have noticed over the last year, we've got a serious thing for the newly-opened Standard Hotel NYC. We've done everything from sleep there to party there, and even walk the High Line below it.

But it was last week that we finally got a taste of the Standard when we had lunch at the Standard Grill, which only began serving meals other than dinner back in late August.

Now that the cold air has settled into New York and kicked out the fair weather friends and put the staff through the paces, we decided it was time to go and see if the grill really lived up to all the hype.

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The Jane Hotel Ballroom is Closed for Now

Where: 113 Jane Street [map], New York, NY, United States, 10014

The latest news in The Jane Hotel v. Neighbors and Pissy Dogs is that the ballroom has been closed down, after city officials raided the bar last week. We're hearing from the hotel that the space will re-open "in a few days" after some "tweaks" are made. However, Gothamist says the bar will be closed for several weeks. Whenever it does re-open, a maximum occupancy limit of 75 people may be enforced and only the front bar will be open, not the ballroom.

There may also be some tentative plans to introduce a light food service even though the real deal restaurant/cafe inside the hotel is not open. Either way, if you've booked your room at the Jane for for a New York City visit and were hoping to party with the modelizers and their prey beautiful people in the ballroom, you'll have to head on over to the Standard Hotel's tentatively-named Boom Boom Room just a few blocks away. Oh wait, you can't get in there either.

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The Standard's Boom Boom Room Will Now Be Called QT (As In The Old Hotel)

Where: 848 Washington at 13th Street [map], New York, NY, United States, 10014

The Standard New York's exclusive 18th floor bar hasn't even officially opened and yet it's already changing its name. Apparently, the Boom Boom Room in San Francisco has sent the club a Cease and Desist letter for using its name (Type in Boom Boom Room in Google and this club comes up first.)

While we weren't in love with the name Boom Boom Room (we always started singing the song, "Boom, Boom let's go back to my room so we can do it all night and you can make me feel right" whenever we heard it), we like QT even less. BlackBook has the scoop on what QT stands for (on the Quiet) but to us, QT will always be Andre Balazs' boutique dorm hotel in Times Square that is now known as Roommate Grace.

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The Jane Hotel Now Facing Neighborhood Angst

Where: 113 Jane Street [map], New York, NY, United States, 10014

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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Bold Faced Names Welcome Standard’s Boom Boom Room

Where: 848 Washington St [map], New York, NY , United States, 10014

There’s no word of it on The Standard’s website yet, but naturally the celebrities are already all over it. Madonna (and Jesus), Jude Law, Jon Bon Jovi, Josh Harnett, Rachel Zoe, Lindsay Lohan, Courtney Love—and did we mention Madonna?—were just some of the guests on hand to help Andre Balazs celebrate the opening of the Standard’s new penthouse bar, the Boom Boom Room, on Saturday night.

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The Jane Hotel Has Opened Its Captain's Cabins (With Private Bathrooms!)

Where: 113 Jane Street [map], New York, NY, United States, 10014

Love The Jane Hotel in NYC with its maritime history, Darjeeling Limited feel and its mysterious ballroom/lounge/bar? Don't love the idea of spending a night in a micro-room and sharing a bathroom down the hall with strangers? Worry no more. The Jane has finally opened up it's Captain's Cabins with private bathrooms.

Rooms are still on the small side, ranging from 150-250sq.ft. but they feature queen and king-sized beds (larger rooms will have the kings) as well as free wireless internet, telephones with voice mail, flat-screen TVs, DVD players and iPod docks. And did we mention they have private bathrooms?

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Ritz-Carlton Battery Park Gets Rid of Clunky Armoires; In-Room Telescopes Remain

Where: 2 West Street [map], New York, NY, United States, 10014

The Ritz-Carlton Battery Park has just completed some pretty extensive, and expensive, renovations of all their 298 rooms and suites--to the tune of $10 million.

Here's a shot of what the rooms *should* look like now. Of course, that photo has been on a magic carpet ride through kingdom of Photoshop. But HotelChatter has stayed here before (in one the club floor rooms, too) and a telescope is really included. Plus, if you're in a Harbor View room, you'll have views of the Statue of Liberty.

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Scandal! It's Not Just Guests Getting Naked At The Standard

Where: 848 Washington Street [map], New York, NY, United States, 10014

It's hard to believe that it's already been almost nine months since we slept at The Standard NYC, and in that time the hotel has gone from being a respite of fresh design and cool canoodling to a scenester playpen with free peepshows.

Alas, the drama continues over The Standard's very clear wall of windows and the flagrant guest nudity they reveal to the High Line pedestrians below. In fact, the daily x-rated displays are quite the hot topic in town, and leave it to the NY Post to get to the bottom of it.

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Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough, Inside or Outside the Standard NYC

Where: 40 Little W. 12th Street [map], New York, NY, United States, 10014

The view from room 9.24.

The Standard NYC came under fire yesterday for encouraging its guests to put their sexual selves on display while staying at the hotel. But despite the hotel's promise to remind guests about the "transparency of the guest windows" it seems all the publicity about the naked naughtiness has only encouraged more folks to bare it all...and more folks down below to stick around and watch for a while.

How else to explain the two dancing naked girls in one of the guest rooms yesterday or the folks who visit the High Line Park below specifically to engage in some Peeping Tom behavior? One told the NY Post:

"We saw two feet pressed against the glass in an apparent attempt to get better leverage," said sightseer [Aaron] Lipman. "Our curiosity is piqued -- but it hasn't yet been satisfied. We'll come back."

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The Standard New York's Porny Antics Might Soon Be Over

Where: 40 Little W. 12th Street [map], New York, NY, United States, 10014

The Standard Hotel in New York hasn't been shy about showing some skin with numerous sightings of naked or nearly naked people spotted inside the guest rooms through the floor to ceiling windows. Even the hotel's mascot and Twitterer Stan D'Arde has encouraged folks to go on with their sexy selves and submit their naughty snapshots to the hotel's Facebook page (they have to be taken at the hotel of course.)

It's all very Truth or Dare, Madonna-style but the Standard might be too sexy, even for New York. The NY Post reports that park-goers at the High Line Park (which runs below the hotel) and business owners are quite upset about the voyeurism that goes on at the hotel.

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The Olsen Twins and Their Boyfriends Partied at The Jane, Have You?

Where: 113 Jane Street [map], New York, NY, United States, 10014

The Jane Hotel opened up their ballroom space earlier this summer and we were fortunate enough to get a tour of the place by the hotel's very own Sean MacPherson.

But there was one place that we didn't get to see--the hotel's private balcony. However, guess who did get in to see that? Oh yeah, New York's favorite little nightlife trolls dolls: The Olsen Twins.

NY Post reports:

They were celebrating Bartha's birthday and ended the night at the Jane Hotel, where "Mary-Kate and Nate were making out and tickling each other like 5-year-olds," said our spy. The source said the couples ended the night on the hotel's private balcony "chain-smoking cigarettes until after 4 a.m."

Of course, given The Jane's well-known "micro-rooms" with shared baths, the partying foursome no doubt shacked up elsewhere for the night (er...morning?) But the budget rooms at The Jane are still holding steady at $89 a night on the weekends and $79 a night during the week.

And if you and your twin think even those prices are too much, The Jane has a few rooms with bunk beds open. Yes, bunk beds in the same itty bitty space The larger rooms with private baths are still planned for the hotel but have not opened yet to guests.

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NYC's Hotel Gansevoort Gears Up For New Club 'Provocateur'

Remember the heyday of the Hotel Gansevoort in New York's Meatpacking District, before The Standard came and when the Gansevoort still had bedspreads without cigarette burns in them? It was the place to go on a Friday or Saturday night in summer, for a drink at their rooftop "Plunge" pool bar or down at their garden restaurant/club.

Now that the garden lounge has closed, leaving the corner of the Meatpacking eerily quieter at night, what will move into the prime space? Another club of course, but this time not of your typical $19 cocktails and black minidresses sort, or so it seems. The new venture will be called "Provocateur" and is billing itself as "The [heart] of Progressing, Vocal & Indie Music."

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