Super clean fairly large rooms, floor-to-ceiling windows, great location in the center of LES and also close to the subway. No elevator backup traffic. Not precious enough to be boutique but perhaps the only midrange hotel in Manhattan that doesn't seem grody.
Mar 23, 2024
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The Proper is beautiful, has a sweet view on the roof + a good lobby for working w/ free counter culture coffee in the morning. but..the street it’s on has a pretty extensive encampment going on so you wanna uber in at night. Nikko is fancy and has an indoor pool but felt almost too fancy, like I couldn’t talk in the elevator.
Aug 28, 2024
Beautiful new hotel with great views, pool and a Jose Andres restaurant. Right across the street from the Broad and Disney Concert Hall
Jan 27, 2024
I love hotels, and gatekeeping… but this is one of my favorites in the world. It’s not about a fancy spa, or a posh gym or endless views. It’s just a classic city hotel, in one of the top 3 best cities in the world. Half is historic, half is refinished. I can’t wait to design a hotel.
Mar 7, 2025
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With all due respect to ruffianbandwidth
the University of Minnesota's Radio K is the classic model of the college alternative radio station The Current wishes it could be. (I still dig Mac Wilson's show tho). the Twin Cities is lucky enough to maintain more than one very cool radio station.
Radio K plays new bands who sometimes sound like old bands. An actual eclectic mix of genres. Random metal every now and again. College kids who, all these years later, keep spinning Jeff Buckley.
I'm always shazaming this station. It gives me hope that indie music still has a future.
My favorite thing is listening to the dj reading the top 5 songs of the week and feeling old because I have never heard of any of the bands but they all have hilarious names and song titles.
My other favorite thing is when a 20 year old dj plays Texas is the Reason followed by Braid in the middle of a "classic 00s emo" set.
Mar 23, 2024
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Both are easy-- Gimlet is a basic gin cocktail with lime and simple and it's the first thing you learn in cocktail school.
Last Word is a gimlet but with maraschino and chartreuse and good bartenders will know it. Dunno if there is still a chartreuse shortage tho.
Feb 9, 2024