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...visually striking property, designed by Todd Schliemann of New York City's Polshek Partnership Architects and built right above the Highline - a former elevated rail track in the process of being converted into an aerial park. The Highline's first section is open to the public and runs between Gansevoort Street and 20th Street. As Manhattan's newest attraction, it has an almost symbiotic connection to the hotel, feeding an endless stream of strollers to the Standard, while allowing hotel guests to enjoy a landscaped walkway through the neighborhood...
Shape Shifting. If the long winter has left you a bit doughy, the Gansevoort Turks & Caicos' Exhale Spa is offering monthly Core Intensive Weekends, starting May 14-17, to help get you back to buff. You'll endure daily Pilates-style fitness classes, plus one 60-minute massage for recovery purposes. If you want to stay on and just sit like a slug on the beach, the hotel has a special opening rate of $295 per night, which includes an oceanview suite, breakfast, a daily fitness class and 35% off at the spa. Rates for the fitness weekend, start...
Hello Sunshine. Gansevoort South in Miami has a rooftop pool and and oceanside infinity pool. They're offering a "Forever Valentine's Day" package with champagne and strawberries, and cocktails by the plunge pool. You also get two bathrobes to keep and a Mile High intimacy kit to turn up the heat, in case the sun isn't enough. $395 per night, available Feb. 12-16. 2377 Collins...
...have opened the porthole-punctuated Maritime Hotel on Ninth Avenue at 16th Street. With its 10,000-sq.-ft. outdoor public garden and '60s-style Pop Art decor, this place is already a magnet for Victoria's Secret models and Marc Jacobs acolytes. Up next: the 187-room Hotel Gansevoort, across the street from Soho House, with a rooftop pool, loftlike rooms and two restaurants. The meat-packing district used to be strictly for cows and transvestites. There goes the neighborhood. --By Rebecca Isenberg
...Mitchell's hands the city skyline, tugboats, river barges, even rodents have a singularity that others overlooked: "A lust for blood seems to take & hold of the brown rat. One night, in the poultry part of old Gansevoort Market, alongside the Hudson, a burrow of them bit the throats of over three hundred broilers and ate less than a dozen. Before this part of the market was abandoned the rats practically had charge of it. Some of them nested in the drawers of desks. When the drawers were pulled open, they leaped out, snarling...