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New York’s Merriest Hotel Trees, 2012 Edition
We’re deep into the season of bright shiny objects. Some of the prettiest, cleverest, liveliest, happiest, wittiest – you get the idea — hang from the branches of New York City’s hotel trees. For a...
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10 NYC Hotels to Check Out Before the Holidays Check Out
I finally got around to seeing the year’s top fashion documentary Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel. In the spirit of her fabled Why Don’t’ You lists that spiced up an earlier iteration of...
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The Best of the New at NYC Hotels, 2012 Edition
When hotel historians – hey, they’re out there somewhere — look back on 2012, they’ll say what we already know: it was, for the most part, a very good year. Bookish: the NoMad library. New York City...
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Looking for Great Hotel Coffee? Foursquare Serves Up Its “Best of New York...
Stumptown joe. It’s billed as the guide that tells you where people actually go when they’re in New York. Well, up to a point. Foursquare’s new Best of New York Guide is based on where people linked to...
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Ten Ideas to Steal From The 2013 Kips Bay Decorator Show House
Kristen McGinnis’s lacquered dining room. The best hotel rooms are the ones filled with things you want to steal – like decorating ideas. A great decorator show house is even better. The designers, of...
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When the Roof’s a Farm: Five New York Hotels that Grow Their Own Food
Raised on the roof. Hard as it may be to picture – especially if you’re gazing at the Empire State Building – Manhattan was once blanketed by farmland. John Rowland, the 19th-century surveyor who...
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From E-books to Beyonce — The Best of the New at New York City Hotels, 2013...
Suite sitting room at the renovated Tuscany. It’s time for my annual over-the-shoulder look at the year that was in New York City hotels. If New York felt unusually crowded in 2013 there was good...
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What NYC Hotels Do Tripadvisor Reviewers Like Best?
It’s January, and once again Tripadvisor rolls out its annual Best Lists compiled from the bazillion reviews filed by hotel-goers each year. How did New York City’s nearly 100,000 hotel rooms fare?...
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Five Bright Ideas to Steal from the 2014 Kips Bay Show House
A contemporary look in a historic building by SPAN Architects. I’m a fan of decorator show houses for the same reasons I love hotels. The best create rooms with a heady atmosphere where you can step...
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Cocktails With King Kong: Five NYC Hotel Roof Bars With Killer Views of the...
Not too long ago, you could count the New York hotel roof bars on the fingers of one hand and have leftover digits. And today? They’re so bountiful the best way to track them is by the view. I found a...
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Is TripAdvisor’s 2016 Best U.S. Hotel for You? A Look at The Sherry-Netherland
The Vatican Library on Fifth Avenue. No matter how you may feel about TripAdvisor and the reliability of its crowd-sourced reviews, it’s impossible to ignore “the world’s largest travel site.” And this...
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Still Shopping? Check Out Overnight New York’s Second Annual Last-Minute...
Hotel shops sell a lot more than Band-Aids, bathrobes and bottled water. Many stock amusing, even unusual items you’d be happy to give – or receive. And here’s the best part. Many offer online as well...
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New York’s Merriest Hotel Trees, 2012 Edition
We’re deep into the season of bright shiny objects. Some of the prettiest, cleverest, liveliest, happiest, wittiest – you get the idea — hang from the branches of New York City’s hotel trees. For a...
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