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Violations issued for illegal hotel rooms
DNAinfo reported 12 apartments in an East 10th Street apartment building have been illegally altered, and Hotel Toshi, a company that offers short-term accommodations in some Manhattan and Brooklyn apartment buildings, was charged with a number of violations after area residents complained the property was being used as an illegal hotel.
Element hotel opens in Times Square
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. operates the new 411-room Element Times Square West, which has LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
New hotel part of “supersize” gay resort to open in Manhattan
The New York Times reports that a $30 million, 90,000 square-foot resort directed at a gay clientele is scheduled to start opening in Manhattan in early 2011. The Out NYC Urban Resort will include a 127-room Axel Hotel among its numerous attractions.
Wyndham to open new TRYP Times Square South in spring 2011
Wyndham Hotels and Resorts has announced it will be opening a new 173-room hotel in Midtown Manhattan in spring 2011. The hotel will be a part of Wyndham's newly acquired TRYP brand, a mid-price-range line of hotels located primarily in Europe and Latin America.
Union hotel receives Best Western’s highest award
A release on PR Newswire reported that the Best Western Bowery Hanbee Hotel, a union hotel where workers ratified their first HTC contract in April 2009, has been honored with the Best Western Chairwoman's Award for outstanding quality of service and standards.
Millennium Broadway, Harvard Club lead hoops league
The Hotel Employees Basketball League's season is underway, with the Millennium Broadway and the Harvard Club sharing first place honors. The season is still young, however, and several other teams have their eyes on the League's championship.
South Bronx to get a brand new hotel
A "brownfield" in the Port Morris section of the South Bronx will be the site of a new 80-90-room hotel, according to an article in the New York Daily News. The now vacant lot is one of six Port Morris brownfield sites, all of which have been recently rezoned and which the South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corp. has targeted for redevelopment.
NYC tourism reaches new high in 2010
According to reports in the New York Times, Crain's New York, and NYC.gov, a record 48.7 million people visited New York City this past year, with the result that 2010 was also a record-breaking year for the number of hotel rooms sold. The continued flow of tourists into the city boosted the state's economy by $31 billion and also increased the number of those employed in the hospitality industry to its largest number ever.
1,153 new hotel rooms opened in lower Manhattan in 2010
The Real Deal reported the number of hotel rooms in lower Manhattan increased by 80 percent in the years since September 11, 2001. Five new downtown hotels opened in 2010, adding 1,153 rooms to the area.
Millenium Broadway leads hoops league
The Hotel Employees Basketball League's season is underway with the Millennium Broadway standing alone in first place with an unblemished 4-0 record. But there are three teams nipping at the leader's heels, with the Harvard Club, the Roosevelt and the Hilton New York sharing second place honors with identical 3-1 records.
