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Lower East Side Finally Getting a Half Decent Boutique Hotel

Incredibly gentrified as it has become, the Lower East Side is still lacking that hallmark of neighborhood development: a decent boutique hotel. Sure, The Hotel on Rivington was one of the firm mega-towers to mar the tenenment-scale neighbhorhood’s skyline, but The Observer has always found that place to be pretty meh, and only getting worse. The Thompson has not been much better.

Now, one of the most stalled structures in the city, 180 Ludlow—it’s been an empty shell for years, something straight out of bombed out Beirut—has found a buyer, and it is the very reputable gang at BD Hotels, Curbed reports. Read More

By Chris Shott 11/29/07 6:11pm

Hotelier Predicts 'A Lot of Pain' From Room Boom

Today’s New York Sun examines the potential side-effects of the city’s ongoing hotel boom.

Between 13,000 to 18,000 new and renovated rooms are expected in the coming years, which sounds great for consumers but some proprietors aren’t so stoked.

Hotelier Richard Born, who is quoted at length, foresees a lot of doom and Read More