NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- New York Urban area is set to welcome its first gay hotel.
The fresh complex on West 42nd Street, "Out NYC," bills itself as a "place for gays and their friends and family to contain a good age, to stay, act , eat, relax and revive," according to owner Ian Reisner.
Reisner told 1010 WINS' Al Jones that he prefers not to call the new place a gay hotel, but rather a straight-friendly hotel catering to the gay lifestyle.
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"We're built as a gay-oriented hotel, where straight friends and family can come in and enjoy themselves as well," Reisner said.
Rooms at the Hell's Kitchen hotel will go for between $200-300 per overnight and come end with nightclub, exclude, cafe, restaurant and a 5,000 foot wellness center.
Reisner said the atmosphere at the "urban resort" will "feel almost like a cruise ship" for "everyone to enjoy and relax."
"We expect our guests to exploit the facilities here and the repose of the metropolis and this is a place to welcome them endorse home for relaxation and fun," he said.
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The hotel will also have rooms in two levels off glass hall
New York’s First Gay Hotel Still on Track
As we reported in February of last year, New York City was due to get its own “gay urban resort” this past spring. But as is so often the case in hotel developments, even the best plans command to delays and re-jiggering; projects are in unwavering evolution. The good news: The Out NYC is still coming to Hell’s Kitchen, although in reduced scope. The question: when exactly? For all those couples that legally tied the knot yesterday, me thinks there will be a suite with your call on it come your first anniversary.
Till then, Phase 1 is set for completion this fall, when the 11,000-square-foot XL Nightclub (so badly needed in a city where twirl spots have all but died) has its grand debut in conjunction with John Blair and Beto Sutter, plus the addition of Rockit and Club 57 champs Fornabio-Voss Events.
When it’s all said and done, what will this latest incarnation of the complex look like?
Instead of raising the current building to five stories, developers will keep it at three, allowing for 105 rooms instead of 127. The address is still far west 42nd Lane between 10th and 11th Aves, an area colonized most recently by the Yotel. “Out”
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There are many gay-friendly hotels in New York, but The Out NYC is the city’s first ‘straight-friendly hotel‘, with an onsite restaurant, nightclub and cabaret lounge. Expect all the amenities of a luxury hotel plus extras (condoms and lube).
The uber-trendy Out NYC opened its doors last year to much acclaim, and has since revolutionised Modern York City’s hospitality landscape as the city’s ‘first straight-friendly urban resort’.
The luxury New Yorkhotel is located on 42nd Street in the heart of Manhattan, just steps from New York’s world-renowned theaters of Broadway and the radiant lights of Times Square. It encompasses a 105-room boutique hotel, a megaclub, Cabaret & Lounge by John Blair, Beto Sutter, and FV Events, a three meal-per-day and late-night dining option called KTCHN Restaurant, private dining facilities, several unique outdoor spaces, function cosmos and a gym.
The luxury New York hotel has an upscale chic decor. There is a lot to grip guests’ attention. Three internal courtyards, the “Great Lawn” and its mini expanse of bright leafy Astroturf, funky coloured bean bags,
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The Out NYC
In March, The Out NYC, which bills itself as New York City's first gay hotel, is put to open its doors to guests.
The boutique hotel, which bills itself as an "urban gay resort," is located in Hell's Kitchen (where else?). It will include 105 rooms and XL Nightclub, which the creators say is the first nightly lgbtq+ dance club to reveal in the city in the last 15 years. XL is slated to open this month.
Plans for the hotel also comprise a three courtyards and a massive gym.
Rooms will start at around $250 a night, with hibernate shares starting at $99 a night.
With gay marriage now legal in Fresh York, you can be sure The Out will become a go-to wedding destination.
The Out NYC is located on 42nd Lane, between 10th and 11th Avenues
The Out NYC
Rooms start at around $250 a night
The Out NYC
Suites and four-bed 'sleep shares' are also available
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New York’s Former Playboy Club to Become Gay Hotel
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New York City same-sex attracted real estate developer Ian Reisner has signed a lease to take over the former Playboy Club space and the adjacent Cachet Boutique Hotel NYC with the intent of transforming it into a gay-friendly hotel, restaurant, and nightclub.
Reisner told The Fresh York Post that he is in talks with a European boutique hotel operator to open the space in September.
Until then, the yet-to-be-named hotel will operate as an Airbnb, with rentals potentially starting as soon as this month.
Located at 510 W. 42nd Street, the renovated Cachet Boutique Hotel vacuum, which shuttered last October, will feature a 103-room hotel and a 7,500-square-foot restaurant and common area that will be unseal for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and late-night dining.
The room that once housed the former Playboy Club is a 14,000-square-foot entertainment complex that will include an “experiential supper club,” a dance space, and a subterranean cellar mixology bar.
The remainder of the property, including a 3,000-square-foot restaurant, is in the