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The Standard Hotel is The Best Building of the Aughts, So Says Curbed
Curbed recently put out the first of what will be many lists across the internet universe, saying goodbye to the aughts. But this being Curbed, they focused on the The Best New Buildings of The Decade for New York City. And wouldn't you know it? The Standard Hotel is the #1 best building of the decade.
Yes, The Standard. Since we tracked the opening of this hotel pretty much from its inceptions, we're a little surprised to see it top this list. We say it looks way better from the inside looking out then just on its own. But we guess naked people in the windows helps.
Here are some of our favorite moments of the Standard NYC...through the years.
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Even If You're a Hotel Guest, The Standard's Boom Boom Room Kicks You Out at 9
Who wants to hear some ridiculous Manhattan hotel news? The Standard's top-floor lounge/club Boom Boom Room (or whatever they're calling it), only allows hotel guests up between the hours of 4-9pm. What happens at 9pm, you ask? Well, a very PYT HotelChatter operative reported back from a boozy evening in the Boom Boom Room that everyone is kicked out at the stroke of nine. This way, the place can be reopened for private and celeb-filled parties at 10pm.
This means no late night socializing and snacking and no nightcaps in the Boom Boom's plush environs, even though you are a paying guest of the hotel. Still, our operative managed to capture a few undercover pictures before the curfew came down, and we see a sampling of the "Sweets" menu above, with a fireplace after the jump.
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Finally, Ordering The Humble Pie At NYC's Standard Hotel Grill
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
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)
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
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
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!)
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
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
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
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
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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