Neighboring Businesses
Gansevoort Hotel? Welcome to the Hood!
By God, I think they’ve done it! (By God, I think we’ve done it!) The new exhaust has been connected at the Hotel Gansevoort and it appears that the disruptive noise generated by the restaurant’s fan will no longer be an issue. The saga is over! Is it true? Are you happy? Write in... »
TOWN HALL Report – June 30
What up? So there was a much smaller showing at State Senator Tom Duane’s recent Town Hall than there was at the meeting last Winter. Tom (excuse me, State Senator Tom Duane), was hopeful that the small attendance pointed to fewer egregious problems. He may be right, but it must also have been due,... »
PM Lounge- Meeting
via Nancy Blanford: Neighbors: Kate Seely-Kirk, assistant to Council Member Christine Quinn, would like to get together with concerned neighbors to talk about PM Lounge sometime next week. She would like to hear and understand all complaints about PM Lounge and discuss possible ways to leverage Council Member Quinn’s options to help resolve the... »
Big Bash at Lotus – Friends of the High Line chuggin away….
Friends of the Highline project celebrated a massive Federal Authorization victory last night at swanky MPD club LOTUS. Mojitos were flowing as Robert Hammond and Joshua David thanked their volunteers and funders and the local politicians who have helped them overcome this last obstacle blocking their dream to preserve the highline for reuse as... »
June 22 – A Day of Silence
Sources inform me (oh, yes, I have sources) that in order to finish (and resolve) the noise issues, the exhaust fans at the Hotel Gansevoort will need to be shut down from approximately 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. on June 22, 2005. Hopefully, this will be the measure the hotel takes that succesfully eradicates... »
Hotel Gansevoort – An update and a recap
I have the latest report from Hotel Gansevoort regarding the intolerable noise that emanates from their generators: a new promise to be finished ‘within 30 days‘! hmmm… sounds nice, but can we trust them? I want to believe, but I’m not even able to muster up cautious optimism. Before you denounce me a far-gone... »
30 Seconds of Fame
A report on the CB2 meeting in the irreverent words of Ms. Marge Colt: Well, I went to the meeting. For those who have never attended the monthly meeting of the full board of CB2 it is an odd event attended by very odd people. I felt more than normal, like a girl from... »
Looks Like a Score for the Community
Matt Bucher (who I hear gave a very eloquent and well-documented commentary at last night’s CB2 meeting on all the sins PM Lounge had committed, the many times they had said they would do one thing and then done quite the opposite) has posted a recap of the neighborhood’s succesful block of PM Lounge’s... »
A New Posting from Hotel Gansevoort
An update from Hotel G: “Work continues this week on reducing the noise from the ventilation system from our restaurant. We need to reduce the amount of air the fan uses — to do this we had to order a new, custom-made fan belt pulley which is scheduled to arrive by the middle of... »
Activists Activate…PM Lounge requests outdoor seating, but is it in the best interest of the community?
It may be popular with A-list celebrities and New York’s high society, but neighbors of PM Lounge, the club the NYTimes dubbed as having the most ‘brutual beautiful-person policy in the district’ aren’t so captivated by what the club advertises as an ‘escape from the ordinary.’ Residents of 838 Greenwich, which corners onto Horatio... »
Residents Write In – Is it still noisy?
So, what with my crazy work schedule, whenever i’m around, so is the construction crew for watershaft 27b, making it a bit difficult to figure out just where the various noises are coming from. If it weren’t so awful, I’d have to laugh at the irony that the noise from the DEP-sanctioned construction site... »
HSA condemns Hotel Gansevoort’s broken promise
HORATIO STREET ASSOCIATION 83 Horatio Street New York City, New York 10014 May 6, 2005 Mr. Elon Henchington Manager Director Hotel Gansevoort 18 Ninth Avenue New York City, NY 10014 Dear Elon Henchington, Your April 6 gathering at the Hotel Gansevoort was clearly a gesture to reassure the community that the Hotel wishes to... »
Can you hear what I hear?
So I’ve been out of town and am today blogging from the wastelands north of our little village, nonetheless, the question on my mind is: has the Hotel Gansevoort noise ceased? I know that the work started yesterday and continues today and the both the owners and Mr. Chodorow were on the property as... »
Hotel Gansevoort Re-Inforces Pledge to Community
viaMichael Lindenbaum of the Hotel Gansevoort: Recognizing our 30-day commitment to the community to remedy the fan noise, we wanted to provide you with an update on what Hotel Gansevoort is doing, as is it important to us to remain in good standing with the community. To that end, on Tuesday, May 6th –... »
A Slap on the Wrist for Hotel Gansevoort turns into a COURT DATE!
Via an anonymous neighbor who spoke with Inspector Pacqua at the DEP: A couple of weeks ago the hotel was issued its second violation for the intolerable noise it generates and a court date has been scheduled for May 11, 2005. Depending on what the judge says, a cease and desist may be issued... »
Report – Dishy news from the Annual Horatio Street Association Meeting
News first (er, gossip): The renovation where the Woolco building was? To become retail space and offices for THEORY – - more twiggy models to stride our streets. Although I’m sure the (rumored) new Emeril restaurant in the space next to PM will bring ‘em too. With all that traffic, it’s been suggested we... »
A Personal View…
A personal view of the meeting at the Hotel Gansevoort: The hor d’s were rather vulgar and included chicken liver pate formed to be a lollipop on a stick. The waitresses looked like 21th century bunnies, but all dressed in little black dresses. To prevent butts and champagne glasses from being thrown off the... »
Horatio Street Blogger on National News – UPN 9
The interview I gave after the Hotel Gansecoort meeting to the very nice camera guy from UPN 9 was on the news. Umm… I didn’t see it, but my friend’s mom called her about it after her son saw it on the news, so it definitely happened. If any of y’all work for UPN... »
