Monday, April 18, 2011

Welcome to the Hotel Copper Building!

Over at the Copper Building, the newish high-end condo on Avenue B at 13th Street where residents are paying upwards of $3.8 million to live, you now have the opportunity to book a room there starting at $280 per night. (Five-night minimum!)



Per the description at Airbnb:

This magnificent, spacious, 1 bedroom apartment is located just 3 blocks from Tompkin Square Park, in the beautiful "Copper Building" in the coveted East Village. This corner unit is lined with windows providing copious amounts of natural light from all angles. Step out onto your wrap around balcony to experience breathtaking views of Manhattan.

With an established music scene, funky shops, restaurants and bars the East Village truly defines what it means to be hip. Close proximity to a state-of-the-art dog run, beloved by pooches all over. A block and a half from the nearest subway, it conveniently enables easy access to any area in the city
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Looks like you have access to the building's gym too... (No word on the "zen garden.")


Despite being in an area that truly defines what it means to be hip, the hoteliers have decided that this is part of Stuy Town...


[Hat tip to our friends at Lux Living]

10 comments:

onemorefoldedsunset said...

The "state-of-the-art" dog run will draw the crowds, surely.

Anonymous said...

ANY MORE SPECS on the dog run? and will the new age condo yups have ..... ......

Ken from Ken's Kitchen said...

1. Wonder how the the neighbors will feel about having tourists and other perfect strangers traipsing in and out of Eric's B & B, and if there are specific requirements in his lease concerning subletting? 2. Eric's B & B may violate the law. Starting in May, the Short-Term Rental Ban goes into effect. The law forbids rentals for periods of fewer than 30 days in buildings that have five or more units.

Lisa said...

Dammit, Grieve, you just made me lose my breakfast with this nausea-inducing bullshit.

Anyway, aren't there laws against this now that forbid the renting out of apartments as hotel space?

Anonymous said...

Paying over 3 million to live in a space I wonder what the residents think of the rental???Doesn't sound great to me. I would think people would want privacy not people coming and going.

Anonymous said...

This is illegal as of spring. But who do you report this to? Does anyone know?

blue glass said...

would guess DHCR (division of housing & community renewal)if landlord it doing the renting - or
landlord of tenant is doing it.
there is always the attorney general.

Old Man 12B said...

Ah, The Copper Crapper goes on and on...I've lived on Avenue B my entire life(75 years, 5 months, 6 days, 3 hours, 22 minutes and counting ~ but really - who's counting?) I'm starting to have great respect for the Serial Vomiter over at the Cooper Union Travesty! If I can't get in touch with him(her?) I may decide that an old man like me could vomit daily on diffeent parts of the Copper Crapper! Oh Avenue B, how I lament thee...The Copper Crapper...Upscale clubs (or is it downscale?) And horrors - that putrid Unleashed Pet Spa nonsense a block away, with that bimbo owner who thinks she IS the East Village. Sad, so sad...hmmm...can I go see a film at The Charles Theater? Can I browse the Peace Eye Bookstore? Oh for a drink of rot gut rye at Old Stanley's! (Is there possibly someone else around who remembers the barroom brawl there the late, late on the day of the Kennedy Assassination??? Help!!!

Anonymous said...

If you have a complaint regarding the illegal use of an apartment as a rental, please call 311 and make a DOB building complaint for Occupancy Contrary to C of O. Ask that it be forwarded to the Mayor's Office of Special Enforcement.

Anonymous said...

Old Man 12b, I'm the bimbo across the street from you. I own the yuppy pet store you detest so much. So much so, that I had to call the police on you for countless harassing emails and phone calls. Why does my shop offend you so much? I'm a widow with a son to raise. I work twelve hour days and I am open seven days a week. I am trying to feed my kid and pay my rent. I didn't realize you own this neighborhood. Should I leave? oh but wait, where will I go? There is always an asshole who thinks because he has lived there longer then you, he "owns" the territory and the people who occupy it. You call me a bimbo yuppy but it is you who is the scumbag elitist.