Public Hotels
Lower East Side Hotels Close During COVID-19 Shutdown
Posted March 25, 2020 at 5:00 am
At least three of the trendiest hotels dotting the Lower East Side are now closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The glitzy PUBLIC Hotel on Chrystie Street is the latest venue to announce its temporary pause. “It is with a heavy heart that I have finally decided to temporarily close PUBLIC on Monday, March 23rd,” […]
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Public Hotel-Adjacent Condo Ascends 4 Stories
Posted January 23, 2020 at 5:03 am
The north end of Chrystie Street continues its gilded march toward luxury. Despite the scruffy park at its doorstep. Owner-developer KD Sagamore, which scooped up 199 and 201 Chrystie over the last several years for a combined $20 million, filed for re-development back in December 2017. The plans included merging both parcels into one tax lot, […]
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Housing Complex Alongside Public Hotel Finally Gets its Playground
Posted July 31, 2019 at 5:00 am
Two years after the 28-story Public Hotel debuted on Chrystie Street, there is finally a new playground for residents of the adjacent 10 Stanton Street. While not yet operational, the jungle gym equipment is visible in the rear yard at the corner of Chrystie. Installation began a couple months ago, but it’s unclear when it’ll […]
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Fighting Over Public: Theater Sues Ian Schrager’s Hotel for Trademark Infringement
Posted February 25, 2019 at 5:05 am
There is a very public fight afoot over use of the name. The Public Theater filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Ian Schrager’s Public Hotel last Thursday. The beef is over theatrical petformances in connection with the Public name and logo, as first reported by The New York Times. Located a mere one-and-a-half miles apart on […]
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When the Rear Garden Grows the 28-Story Public Hotel
Posted October 19, 2018 at 5:09 am
For the last year, 215 Chrystie Street has been the address of Ian Schrager’s posh Public Hotel (and condos). Before the 28-story development, though, this city parcel was the rear yard, and garden, for the Thelma Burke building on Stanton Street. The New York Times just published a new feature, “How a Garden for the […]
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70-Year-Old Man Charged in Connection with Fatal Stabbing of Homeless Man in Sara D. Roosevelt Park During K2 Drug Feud
Last modified August 20, 2018 at 7:08 am
A homeless man was fatally stabbed in the chest Saturday afternoon on Chrystie Street inside Sara D. Roosevelt Park, police said. Cops responded to reports of an assault inside the park at around 2:15pm. The victim, identified as 23-year-old Arturo Valdez, was found with a stab wound to his chest, police said. He was transported […]
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Man Stabbed in Broad Daylight on Park Bench Across from the Public Hotel
Posted December 28, 2017 at 5:12 am
It’s a tale of two Chrystie Streets… With glitz, glamor, and gold up above, for Public Hotel, there’s violence and poverty at the proverbial doorstep. The latest is a broad-daylight stabbing in Sara D. Roosevelt Park, immediately across the way from 215 Chrystie Street. Yesterday morning, a 34-year-old man sitting on a park bench was […]
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Yesterday’s Hit-and-Run Driver on Chrystie Street was Homeless Man with Stolen Car
Posted September 6, 2017 at 5:12 am
So, about that hit-and-run yesterday afternoon outside the Public Hotel on Chrystie Street… A homeless man reportedly boosted a Honda Civic at around noon, and struck a 49-year-old worker with Action Carting. The victim was near his flatbed truck at 215 Chrystie Street, and sustained a serious ankle injury in the accident. Police later collared […]
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There Was Reportedly a Hit-and-Run Outside the Public Hotel this Afternoon
Posted September 5, 2017 at 3:04 pm
Several readers alert us to a purported hit-and-run that transpired this afternoon outside the Public Hotel on Chrystie Street. Details on the incident are not confirmed, but our tipsters spoke with investigators on scene who said that “someone was injured” in the alleged accident. It was apparently serious enough to elicit a major response from […]
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Sex, Noise, and Garbage: How Ian Schrager’s Rowdy Public Hotel is Ruining Life for Many
Last modified August 2, 2017 at 7:07 am
Open for about two months, Ian Schrager’s glamorous Public Hotel has already made enemies with the very building to which it owes its existence. Sex, noise, and garbage are the operative words here. Located at the perimeter of the 28-story Public Hotel, the Section 8 housing complex at 10 Stanton Street signed a compact in […]
