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Ahead of next year’s opening, TWA Hotel’s second tower tops out
Photo by Max Touhey MCR and Morse Development’s repurposing of Eero Saarinen’s historic TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport into a hotel, event space and dining destination continues to move full speed...
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The best stylish suburban staycations outside NYC
A staycation used to be a term people used when they were staying home and trying to make their non-vacation seem less pathetic when everyone else was hopping on a plane to an exciting locale. Now, the...
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Over the next three years, city will spend over $1B to house homeless New...
Photo via Public Domain Officials on Tuesday said the city will spend $384 million annually over the next three years to house homeless New Yorkers in commercial hotels, despite promises to phase out...
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First look at the glamorous, sixties-inspired guest rooms at the TWA Hotel
Image via David Mitchell Guests staying at the TWA Flight Center Hotel will be transported back to 1962 through rooms decorated with Eero Saarinen-designed Knoll furnishings, martini bars and...
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Bjarke Ingels reveals news renderings of twisting High Line condo ahead of...
Renderings via Dbox for HFZ Capital Group Ahead of the just-announced May 7th sales launch, Bjarke Ingels and developer HFZ Capital have released to the Times several new renderings of the Eleventh, or...
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10 glorious glamping sites near New York City
Glamour camping–combining luxury with minimalism–is all the rage. While you might have to get yourself a bit outside the big city to enjoy such a getaway, there are plenty of spots not too far afield....
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New marble-clad interior renderings revealed for Bjarke Ingels’ High...
Renderings via Dbox for HFZ Capital Group Back in April, 6sqft brought you a new batch of renderings showing Bjarke Ingels and developer HFZ Capital’s XI (or the Eleventh) at 76 Eleventh Avenue ahead...
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Get a first look at the amenities at Bjarke Ingels’ High Line towers
Less than two weeks after HFZ Capital revealed the marble-clad interior renderings for Bjarke Ingels’ High Line-facing XI condo/hotel project at 76 Eleventh Avenue, they’ve now launched the official...
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Merchant’s House Museum files petition in court against construction of...
The museum via Google street view The Merchant’s House Museum and its supporters filed a petition on Monday in New York Supreme Court against the construction of an eight-story hotel planned next...
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Book your wedding at the TWA Hotel: Renderings revealed for retro event spaces
The Starstream Ballroom, via MCR Getting married next spring? Or maybe you’re planning a large conference? Either way, if mid-century-modern is your thing, then the news that the TWA Hotel is now...
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Battery Maritime Building’s hotel-restaurant conversion is back on track
Via Ismael Leyva Architects The plan to convert the landmarked Battery Maritime Building into a hotel and Cipriani rooftop restaurant is back on schedule after an injection of capital into the...
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A new deal and more construction at Waldorf Astoria, though opening date is...
Photo via Wikimedia When the iconic Waldorf Astoria closed in 2017 for the massive renovation promised when Chinese company Anbang Insurance Group acquired it in 2014, the hotel’s future held jumbo...
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New rides and a boutique hotel to help reawaken Coney Island
Image: Luca Vanzella via Flickr On the heels of news that Coney Island will be getting its first new hotel in 50 years, plans have surfaced for a 150,000-square-foot expansion of Luna Park that will...
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Plan for eight-story hotel next to historic Merchant’s House Museum faces...
In June, a petition was filed in New York Supreme Court to prevent the construction of an eight-story hotel next door to the historic Merchant’s House Museum in the East Village. Now, Curbed reports,...
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$75,000/night Upper East Side hotel room is the most expensive in the nation
Photo by Scott Frances for the Mark Most New Yorker don’t spend $75,000 a year on rent, but a hotel room on the Upper East Side is asking that hefty sum for just one night. First reported by Bloomberg,...
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See the TWA Hotel’s airplane-turned-cocktail lounge make the 300-mile journey...
Connie passes under the Eastern Trail in Maine; Courtesy of TWA Hotel, photo by Aaron Flacke Over the last week, a 1958 Lockheed Constellation, or “Connie,” made its way from Maine to its new home in...
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How the 1919 World Series was rigged at the Upper West Side’s Ansonia
The Ansonia in 1904, via Wiki Commons With the 2018 World Series kicking off today, it’s amazing to think that one of the most iconic landmarks of the Upper West Side played a crucial role in shaping...
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MVRDV’s vibrant ‘vertical village’ hotel breaks ground in Washington Heights
Netherlands-based architecture firm MVRDV on Thursday broke ground on its first major project in the United States: a 22-story tower in Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood. Dubbed the Radio...
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VIDEO: See a time-lapse of the TWA Hotel being constructed at JFK
Photo by Max Touhey Officially in its final months of construction, the TWA Hotel is nearing touchdown at John F. Kennedy Airport. Led by MCR and Morse Development, the repurposing of Eero Saarinen’s...
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Reservations for rooms at JFK’s TWA Hotel open next week
Photo by David Mitchell The TWA Hotel at John F. Kennedy Airport will begin accepting reservations for its 1960s-themed guestrooms next week, ahead of its soft opening on May 15. Rooms, decorated with...
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