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lobby is now a series of funky chocolate-brown and orange intimate “living room,” featuring murals, in red silhouette, of “people connecting.” Guests get preferential access to the Rare View Rooftop Lounge, which throngs on Wednesday and Thursday nights (alas, not until April) and offers magical East River and New York skyline views. New deluxe suites have a “galley alcove” with a refrigerator and convection oven, perfect for pooped-out kids who just want to eat in and play Wii. The pleasing green and orange guest rooms are elevated from lackluster to cool with whimsical accoutrements like hand-embroidered figurative bolster pillows and whimsical cat- or dog-shaped cushions (depending on your preference). Upgraded bathrooms are clad in travertine and granite.
Rooms: $250-$900 per night
Eventi
Some hotels fit a niche in a neighborhood; others define it. If you want to discover what the buzz is about in the first luxury hotel ever to come to “North Chelsea,” book a night or two at the Eventi. It’s new, from the ground up—the first 23 floors are hotel rooms and the top 54 are rental apartments.
Eventi is eclectic with a slant toward the artsy oddball; it’s tough to know what to scan first as you enter the lobby from what seems like Wholesale Handbag Row. A cute water and kibbles bowl sits on the cave-red marble floor (indicating a pet-friendly property); an oil portrait of a seductive woman peers out from heavy burgundy drapes behind the reception desk; a large museum-quality photograph of Central Park suspends from the ceiling; and intricately hand-carved wood panels allow light in through abutting windows—all in keeping with the “story of the hotel, which is called LIVE—Elements of Curiosity,” says General Manager Thomas Mathes. Zen-like rooms with sharply angled seating, toned in earthy browns from clay to caramel to black coffee are outfitted with the best Frette and feathers money can buy; beds, in Mathes’s words, are like “clouded envelopes.” Colorful tubes of Etro toiletries, each with an etching of a woman on sconce-like glass, punch up gray-veined white marble bathrooms. Rooms on the east side of the building look out onto Sixth Avenue and are perfect vantage points for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade—book them now for November. Rooms: $300-$750 per night.
~ This story was published in Westchester Magazine in Febuary, 2011 ~
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