Maybe you need a stetson.
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago) link
ROOMS AVAILABLE FOR REPUBLICAN 'INN' CROWD
By STEFAN C. FRIEDMAN
June 21, 2004 -- Even with tens of thousands of delegates, media members and protestors flooding the Big Apple for this summer's Republican National Convention, the majority of city hotels still have their "vacancy" signs up.
While the New York Host Committee in early 2004 reserved 18,000 hotel rooms throughout Manhattan for delegates and the media, many of the unreserved hotels have plenty of space left.
Travel Web site Orbitz.com lists dozens of hotels — from the swanky SoHo Grand and Tribeca Grand to more modestly priced lodgings — that have plenty of rooms available from Aug. 29 to Sept. 2.
Roughly 20 percent of the city's more than 70,500 hotel rooms were empty during the months of August and September last year.
And while the 18,000 rooms reserved by the Host Committee will fill some of the void, many tourists who would normally come to New York in late August will stay home only because the convention is in town, according to a hotel-industry expert.
Still, a spokesperson for the city's tourism bureau said hotel rooms will be hard to come by.
"We expect that hotel-room occupancy will be high," said Arleen Kropf, senior communications manager for NYC & Co.
Security concerns during the convention means that uniformed cops will be assigned to each of the 25 hotels hosting delegates, media or others associated with the event, Crain's New York Business reports.
Cops will pay special attention to hotel ventilation systems, which could be used to spread nerve agents like sarin and anthrax. "It would be simple to introduce an agent in the vents," Anthony Martone, director of security at the Warwick New York, told Crain's.
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:29 (twenty years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:29 (twenty years ago) link
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:31 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:31 (twenty years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:31 (twenty years ago) link
Maybe some NYCer would like to contradict me?
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago) link
xpost!
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:33 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:34 (twenty years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:34 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:35 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:40 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:47 (twenty years ago) link
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:47 (twenty years ago) link
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:48 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:48 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:49 (twenty years ago) link
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:49 (twenty years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:50 (twenty years ago) link
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:51 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:51 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:52 (twenty years ago) link
I'd invite you guys to stay with me if I had anything more than a loveseat. Ask hstencil.
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:52 (twenty years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:52 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.ravistailor.com/images/shop/893.jpg + http://www.dxmarket.com/shops/donkeypride/images/products/PH638_tn.jpg
http://wilson.ctstateu.edu/lib/archives/other/images/pin.jpg + http://www.tavallai.com/gallery/album/sonic_youth/omid_nyfc.jpg
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:52 (twenty years ago) link
I know nothing about Aaron W.'s alleged "loveseat."
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:53 (twenty years ago) link
her birthday is actually the 1st.
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:53 (twenty years ago) link
Kyle, didn't you go for her birthday last year?
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:54 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:54 (twenty years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:55 (twenty years ago) link
I still don't know why you rushed off all of a sudden yesterday.
hopefully we'll see you this year Aaron!
Definitely! I'll gladly take some time off law school to wish you both well. Seriously, don't come during the RNC. Make it a week before or after. This city is gonna be insane.
Ah well... No one's perfect. Especially us virgos.
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:56 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:57 (twenty years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:57 (twenty years ago) link
― AdamL :') (nordicskilla), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:58 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Virgo Mary (Mary), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 23:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 24 June 2004 23:01 (twenty years ago) link
I wonder if tickets are still available. If people are going on the 6th, I am up for going on the 6th as well.
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 24 June 2004 23:03 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 23:04 (twenty years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 24 June 2004 23:05 (twenty years ago) link
Also, if you and your wife go down there to take pictures during your vacation, I will be very disappointed in you.
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 23:06 (twenty years ago) link