Standing on the 10th floor of his new Standard Hotel in the meatpacking district last January, hotelier André Balazs looked out on the Hudson River and the ever-rising New Jersey skyline in the distance, marveling at how much the area was beginning to resemble Hong Kong harbor.
“I had exactly the same comment,” agreed Read More
The gentrification train keeps roaring its way up to Harlem and Morningside Heights, or should we say "SoCo."
Today Curbed posted two items that spell trouble or progress, depending on your point of view. W Hotel’s parent company Starwood is building a branch of its new Aloft brand on Frederick Douglass Bpulevard and 124th Read More
Oh, so that downtown W Hotel: well now it’s officially official. A news release comes in declaring that the 123 Washington Street, Moinian-developed condo-hotel will be 57 stories and include 217 guest rooms and 222 residential units.
And those 222 residential units will be marketed by Michael Shvo, as The Observer reported last week. Read More
The developer who is building the new downtown W Hotel is spreading his empire to Fifth Avenue.
After buying four buildings on Fifth in the last two years, Joseph Moinian is buying two more for $440 million. He is in contract to buy 417 Fifth for $250 million and 245 Fifth for $190 million, two Read More
That whole thing about the Mandarin Oriental sale, fact or fiction? Yeah, never mind.
The deal is in contract and is expected to close in February. A 73 percent share of the Time Warner Center hotel has been sold to Istithmar. According to the release from Mandarin Oriental International Limited, the luxury Read More
On the crowded streets of Park City, Utah, it’s difficult to leave the screening of a small movie like Friends With Money, directed by indie cult figure Nicole Holofcener, in a big limousine.
The movie’s star, Jennifer Aniston, spent the weekend in the company of her favorite accessory, her gay hairdresser, Chris McMillan; for press Read More
On the crowded streets of Park City, Utah, it’s difficult to leave the screening of a small movie like Friends With Money, directed by indie cult figure Nicole Holofcener, in a big limousine.
The movie’s star, Jennifer Aniston, spent the weekend in the company of her favorite accessory, her gay hairdresser, Chris McMillan; for Read More
The New York City subway system isn’t for sissies, as a Jan. 3 incident proved. A 47-year-old upstate Ancram, N.Y., resident was boarding the No. 6 train at 9 a.m. at the 77th Street and Lexington Avenue station when her pocketbook got caught in the closing doors.
Fortunately, there are people employed to push you Read More
An eagle-eyed Politicker correspondent saw Wesley Clark in Union Square around 7 p.m. yesterday evening, walking solo and talking into a Blackberry cellphone. He was crossing the intersection of 17th St. and Park Ave. and bound for the W Hotel.
Anyone know who he was meeting with?
