To see the changes the Landmarks Preservation Commission required of Robert De Niro and his team at the Greenwich Hotel is rather surprising. To the untrained eye, the copper mansard roof the commissioners insisted be stripped away looks pretty harmless. But, as with so many things, the devil is in the details of this Read More
Celebrities–they’re just like us, even when it comes to the city’s interminable buildings bureaucracy. Even a local legend like Robert De Niro can’t escape the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s grasp, though in the end he got what he wanted. Then again, when doesn’t the Godfather of Tribeca?
In 2004, the commission approved designs for De Niro’s Greenwich Read More
Robert De Niro and his partners in the posh Greenwich Hotel probably never wanted a mob scene in the lobby, anyway.
The fancy Tribeca lodge is geared toward people who value their privacy, like Mr. De Niro himself. It’s supposed to be a quiet retreat where guys like Patrick Dempsey can lift weights in Read More
The Wall Street Journal‘s Laura Landro drops by for a review of the Greenwich Hotel in Tribeca, co-owned by none other than Bobby De Niro. Ms. Landro seems rather impressed by it all ("We gave high marks to the comfy Dux bed, the marble bath with its Moroccan tile floors, dual-head shower… and Read More
The Real Deal checks in with Robert De Niro this month. Here’s how the greatest living actor got into New York real estate:
Robert De Niro’s real estate empire started in the 1980s, when the actor was living Downtown near Drew Nieporent’s restaurant Montrachet. To hear the celebrity restaurateur tell it, De Niro would Read More
Celebrity hotelier Robert De Niro‘s notoriously secretive Greenwich Hotel has finally allowed another media outlet, besides Vanity Fair, to peak inside its exclusive chambers. Sort of.
Hotel Chatter – which had its own reservation revoked in April – directs us to this recent Newsweek review of Bobby D.’s lodge, Read More
It seems the control freaks running Robert De Niro’s new Greenwich Hotel aren’t only cracking down on camera-equipped spectators.
On opening day, management also kicked out a reviewer for the hospitality industry site Hotel Chatter, abruptly canceling her reservation.
And she wasn’t even requesting a cheap press rate! To wit:
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Celebrity hotelier Robert De Niro‘s hugely anticipated and high-priced lodge, the 88-room Greenwich Hotel, officially opens for business today in Tribeca.
And talk about excellence in hospitality!
A Curbed tipster reports from the scene:
there are three staffers outside the hotel, guarding against photographs. OF THE EXTERIOR. I managed to Read More
