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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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How The Pierre Hotel Plunged Deep into Fashion Week — And Yes, Those Are...
Dresses in the Two E Bar/Lounge by (from left) Angela Gao, Wen Shi, Laura Siegel and Samantha Sleeper. New York hotels love Spring Fashion Week, unspooling in the dead of winter, for obvious reasons –...
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Weekend Drink: 6 New (and Newish) Hotel Bars Where You Can Sip, Take in the...
Molecular mixology at the Pierre. As a fan of New York City’s hotel bars I happily moved into road test mode when Endless Vacation asked me to come up with a sampling of the best of the new. These...
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Weekend Drink: Harvey Wallbangers? At the Pierre?
Shaken, not stirred. It seems some retro drinks, like Manhattans, Gimlets and Sidecars, have never gone away. Then there’s the Harvey Wallbanger. As the story goes, this time-warp riff on the...
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Was that the Tribeca Grand On View for an Instant in “Blue Jasmine?”
The big clock. Yes, it was, and what a plum, if fleeting, cameo Tribeca’s chic brick, pie-slice-shaped hotel landed in Woody Allen’s latest movie. Without giving too much away, a lead character – Alec...
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Is That Beer In A Champagne Saucer? The Pierre Mixes Up Seven Chic Brew-Based...
Contains beer: the Non-Tartle. In John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row, the character Doc becomes obsessed with a fanciful drink he’s never tasted and has, in fact, never seen – the beer milkshake. “He...
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New York Hotels Where You Can Watch the 2014 Winter Olympics in Comfort and...
Direct from Sochi. Yellow water? Showers without curtains? Guest room bathrooms with side-by-side toilets? Early reports on hotel accommodations in Sochi sound downright scary. But New York isn’t a...
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It’s Spring — At Least, In These NYC Hotel Lobbies
Tulips at The Plaza. I doubt I’m alone in saying I’ve been counting the hours, the minutes, the seconds to the arrival of spring. By Siberian standards — but New York isn’t Irkutsk. And when you rack...
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Serving Up An Edible — and Visual — Taste of Fashion Week at The Pierre
Caftan inspired by the Ballets Russes. For a certain kind of hotel — stylish, luxury-minded, not too obsessed with the NFL — New York Fashion Week is a biannual opportunity. The timing is ideal — end...
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