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By: Curbed
28Jul2010Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Though it feels like we've been writing about the Financial District's W New York Downtown hotel/condo forever, it has, in fact, been only 40 months. Most of our coverage has been...
By: Curbed
28Jul2010If there's one thing we just learned about set designers turned architects/interior designers turned Gwyneth Paltrow collaborators Roman & Williams, it's not to fuck with them. Specifically, do not—repeat, do not—take credit for...
By: Curbed
26Jul2010The 18-story Midtown office building at 1414 Sixth Avenue was slated to be converted into a "six-star" inn from boutique hotel mastermind Ian Schrager, but like many planned six-star projects, the financing is now a bit of a mess. The...
By: Curbed
26Jul2010As if single-room-occupancy hotels weren't already rocking on their heels during these days of luxury conversions (the Jane, the Ace, etc.), a lawyer representing three Upper West Side SROs calls the new illegal hotel law the death knell for the...
By: Curbed
23Jul2010Illegal hotels are, by definition, illegal. But zoning be damned—and because of loopholes and a general lack of enforcement—we've seen a major boom in apartments being rented out for short-term stays, mostly via online marketplaces...
By: Curbed
22Jul2010How's this for an attention-grabbing giveaway: According to a press release, HGTV will be handing over the keys to a 900-square-foot apartment in the Financial District's brand new and highly delayed W New York Downtown condo/hotel to one lucky conte...
By: Curbed
21Jul2010"Like the New York Public Library reading room, albeit with food, a bar and chatting, the space features an oblong table with brass lamps where a line of patrons sat tapping at their laptops—except for one man who bellowed into...
