The New York Observer » ACE HOTEL http://www.observer.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:52:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Offbeat Museums Mad About NoMad While long a cultural wasteland, the area now known as NoMad is enjoying it's time in the sun. Landlords in the Northern Flatiron district have been courting cultural institutions and local joints in an effort to vivify the neighborhood, the Wall Street Journal reports. Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/12/offbeat-museums-mad-about-nomad/ Exclusive: NoMad Hotel Project to Expand by More Than 100,000 SF The developer Jon Lam is arranging a deal to significantly increase the size of a hotel project he is planning to build on Broadway between 29th and 30th streets. Over the summer, Mr. Lam purchased two commercial buildings, 1205 and 1225 Broadway, for about $72 million with plans to raze the two structures and erect Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/11/exclusive-nomad-hotel-project-to-expand-by-more-than-100000-sf/ Missing Miss Piggy, Boozy Sno-Cones, Tote Bags, and Tumblr: Surviving Opening Ceremony’s Fashion Night Out Carnival at The Ace Hotel Fashion's Night Out is finally, mercifully over. And yet: the memory of our brief time at The Ace Hotel's carnival—sponsored by uber-hip, spendy boutique Opening Ceremony (who has an outpost in the hotel) held court with a full carnival and a prominent Muppet—is still burned into our brains. Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/09/miss-piggy-boozy-sno-cones-tote-bags-and-tumblr-surviving-opening-ceremonys-fashion-night-out-carnival-at-the-ace-hotel/ Momofuku x Band Of Outsiders: Is This The Hippest Cookie In The Universe? Last night's Opening Ceremony party at the Ace Hotel for Fashion's Night Out is certainly deserving of its own report, which is coming shortly. The most coveted item of the night, however, may be the hippest cookie in the universe. Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/09/momofuku-x-band-of-outsiders-is-this-the-hippest-cookie-in-the-universe/ Likely Bedfellows: Ace Hotel Teams Up with Google for Guests The hipster-approved Ace Hotel has long been a place for the unlikely trifecta of New York's tech, media, and music scenes to congregate around. A partnership with one of the most recognizable names in technology shouldn't come as much of a surprise, then.

The Ace's lobby has traditionally provided the un-, self-, and vaguely-employed a chic place to plant themselves for the day with complimentary-if-not-spotty WiFi, along with the town's coffee roaster of the moment, Stumptown, and two Ken Friedman restaurants right in the building (whether or not they find themselves tempted to shop at uber-hip Opening Ceremony boutique is another story altogether). Even last week, The Observer's tech blog BetaBeat found themselves spying on the mastermind behind the (literally) rockstar-driven startup du jour Turntable.FM at the Ace.

Now comes the ultimate validation of that through corporate partnering: Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/06/likely-bedfellows-ace-hotel-teams-up-with-google-for-guests/ Spotted Piglet Hiccups: Boozy Breslin Clashes With Mosque The much-hyped, soon-to-open Breslin restaurant, situated in the 12-story Ace Hotel on Broadway and 29th, is giving members of the Masjid Ar-Rahman mosque across the street some agita. “Five times a day, there’s a hundred cabs on the street—the good news is you can always get a cab,” co-owner Ken Friedman told the Transom the Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/culture/spotted-piglet-hiccups-boozy-breslin-clashes-mosque Spotted Piglet Hiccups: Boozy Breslin Clashes With Mosque The much-hyped, soon-to-open Breslin restaurant, situated in the 12-story Ace Hotel on Broadway and 29th, is giving members of the Masjid Ar-Rahman mosque across the street some agita. “Five times a day, there’s a hundred cabs on the street—the good news is you can always get a cab,” co-owner Ken Friedman told the Transom the Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/spotted-piglet-hiccups-boozy-breslin-clashes-mosque Ace in the Hole Like many hospitality moguls, Alex Calderwood is a consummate optimist. Just ask him when his long awaited Ace Hotel at the corner of Broadway and 29th Street will finally be open for business.

“I can’t actually give you a firm, firm date,” Mr. Calderwood told The Observer during a brief tour of the as Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/real-estate/ace-hole Tensions Still Linger at Old Hotel Breslin W magazine's glowing profile of the refurbished Hotel Breslin turned Ace Hotel on Broadway at West 29th Street, set to debut in February:

"Gee.. I think I'll take over this SRO, kick everybody out and make them homeless, then inflict my own brand of derivative, unoriginal fabulousness on the world. But, Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/real-estate/tensions-still-linger-old-hotel-breslin Another New Hip Hotel, Another Tenant Rebellion New York reported this week that the old Hotel Breslin on Broadway would soon become an East Coast version of "Seattle's hipster hostelry," Ace Hotel:

It will be redesigned by the architects that de-Starcked the Royalton, Roman and Williams, and turned into something that should make one of the last somewhat-desolate parts of Manhattan groovy. Read More

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