By Staff 1/04/07 4:13pm

The Afternoon Wrap: Thursday

  • Travel + Leisure picks the best 500 hotels in the world, and New York snags nine honors: the Four Seasons, Hotel Plaza Athenee, Lowell, Mandarin Oriental, Peninsula, Ritz-Carlton (Battery and Central Park), St. Regis, and Trump International. We vote for the Chelsea, too. [T+L]
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    • By Staff 12/27/06 1:17pm

    Sold! Or Maybe Not. Separating Mandarin Oriental Fact from Fiction

    Did you hear? The Mandarian Oriental in the Time Warner Center is being sold to Istithmar. Or so they say.

    The Mandarian Oriental rumor has been the juiciest real estate one floating around New York for the last several weeks, but trying to parse reality from fiction has been tricky.

    The execs at Istithmar are Read More

    By Staff 12/05/06 11:15am

    Choire on Obama's Press

    Columnists ahoy! The Times’ Joyce Purnick and the Post’s Andrea Peyser confabbed briefly in a house phone alcove on the 36th floor of the Mandarin Oriental, the north tower of the Mordor that is the Time Warner Center. More and more press arrived–Maggie Haberman, Ben Smith, that tall annoyed blonde from local 4–not for the Read More

    By Staff 11/16/06 1:32pm

    Hillary: It’s Up to Them

    After Hillary Clinton spoke last night at a New School benefit at the Mandarin Oriental honoring the developer John Tishman, I asked her what she thought was going to change now that the Democrats are in the majority.

    Here’s what she said:

    “Everyone is hopeful and enthusiastic, we have an agenda which we laid Read More

    By Jessica Joffe 3/29/04 12:00am

    Eight Day Week

    Wednesday 24th

    The Time Warner behemoth on Columbus Circle burps out another event tonight , as Dom Pérignon launches its newest vintage, harvested in the summer of ’96 and somewhat spookily dubbed the ” Vintage of Light ,” within the ice-cool walls of the Mandarin Oriental hotel. We asked our man at D.P. what Read More