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Give the gift of New York! Win a free stay @RShotel. #Rogersrooms

JohnKnowles — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:59:35 +0000

In the week leading up to Christmas, Roger Smith will be putting on his Santa hat and giving away a series of #Rogersrooms. It’s a brilliant gift idea to give a 2 night stay at New York’s Roger Smith Hotel. The rules to win are as follows. In the comments section of this blog, tell us who deserves the gift of New York and why. Once you have posted your comment on the blog you must also post “Give the gift of New York! @RShotel #SantaContest #rogersrooms http://bit.ly/u0wWAt” to your twitter or to our facebook profile.
We will be choosing 2 winners on Friday December 23th, just in time for Christmas.

In the wake of Santa Con, we are also giving away 1 room to the best Santa Costume Picture Submitted to twitter with “Give me my #Rogersroom @RShotel #Santacontest” in the body of the tweet.

Thanks ahead of time for participating. Happy Holidays

John Knowles, Director of Digital Marketing @RShotel

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#TweetDrive inspires NYC’s Social Community to give back! ~ Harrison Kratz guest blog post

JohnKnowles — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:15:31 +0000

On Tuesday Decemeber 13, social media professionals and community builders from the New York City area came together to give back and celebrate the holidays at the Lily’s in the Roger Smith Hotel for the New York City Tweet Drive.

The New York City Tweet Drive was part of Tweet Drive, a global social good campaign that brings together social media communities to collect toys for under-privileged children during the holiday season.

New York’s social media community came out in full force and showed what the holidays are all about – friends, family, drinks, giving back, and more than a few ridiculous Facebook photos.

Thanks to event partners such as HP, Community Managers Meetup, SCVNGR and popchips, New York rocked around the Christmas tree to the tune of over 100 toys collected for Toys for Tots’ Brooklyn chapter! In celebration, there may or may not have been some “Tebowing.”

As the organizer of Tweet Drive, I would just like to say thank you for making this an unforgettable night. While there are many things to do in the city during the holidays, you all chose to spend it with us to give back to a great cause.

Santa Con may have been last Saturday, but for one night at the Roger Smith Hotel, we all got to be our own version of Santa Claus.

This is a guest blog post from Harrison Kratz.

Bio: Harrison Kratz navigates New York City as the Community Manager at MBA@UNC, the new MBA online program from the University of North Carolina. He also sticks to his entrepreneurial roots as the founder of the global social good campaign, Tweet Drive.

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A Special Holiday Message From Roger Smith Hotel CEO James Knowles (video)

Birdsong — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:00:42 +0000

Season’s greetings from The Roger Smith Hotel.

: )

Icicle image by Andy Goldsworthy.

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What New Yorkers Are Thankful For (video)!

Birdsong — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:48:50 +0000

Thanksgiving is a perfect time to reflect about the things that are most meaningful to us. It is also a perfect time to gorge yourself on turkey and fall asleep in really strange places.

Happy Thanksgiving from everyone here at the Roger Smith Hotel.

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October 2010 In Lilys ~ New Beer, Wine & Food!

BrianSimpson — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:27:28 +0000

A new season means an exciting new line-up of beer, food and wine here at lilys restaurant in the Roger Smith hotel. We have added some great, energetic team members to both the restaurant/bar and the kitchen. Please stop by and introduce yourself to restaurant managers Dawn, Kevin and Jeff (Jeff will most likely be in chef whites as the new kitchen manager). We will soon be launching a lilys website and will include full profiles and information there. Until then nothing beats the real thing so we look forward to seeing you soon for Happy Hour!

lily’s

501 lexington avenue @ 47^th street

212 838 0844

www.rslilys.com

lilys@rogersmith.com

henry’s our roof-top bar is open:

Monday-Friday 5-11pm

New menu and new wine list

Daniel Mowles and Jeff Farley have created a seasonally focused menu, bursting with local, authentic flavors that will delight our patrons. this will all be accompanied by a local, sustainable and organic wine list.

New cocktail list and happy hour specials lily’s

Dawn Slaughter and Kevin Gill have created a new cocktail list that is worth a visit… or two.

Reviving classics such as Sazerac and Parfait A’mour

Happy Hour is back!

Monday – Friday 5 – 7pm and 10 – Midnight

lily’s is celebrating October fest

The whole month of October, please come and enjoy Octoberfest beer, apfel strudel cocktail and sausage dinner with sauerkraut and potato salad in the evenings

The holiday season is around the corner –time to book your upcoming event

Let us tailor make your event – perfect location, perfect setting

Contact martha rodriguez at 212-583-3195 or

Request information

for more information and reservations for lily’s

call 212-838-0844 or email lilys@rogersmith.com
OpenTable Booking

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Easter Brunch @ Lily’s Restaurant

Editor — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:57:36 +0000

Come celebrate Easter by having a delicious Brunch with us at Lily’s Restaurant in the Roger Smith Hotel! Sunday is the day and everyone is welcome. Here’s the special Easter Brunch menu, only @ Lily’s! See you all this Sunday!

easter brunch
sunday april 4th 2010
$ 35 / person

drink
lily’s mimosa

appetizer
french onion soup or house salad

entrée
roasted leg of lamb

or
honey glazed ham

both entrees served with
roasted new potatoes, haricort verts,
and sweet potato mash

dessert
mini cup cakes

therogersmithhotelny

501 Lexington Avenue, New York NY. 10017
212 755 1400 . reservations@rogersmith.com
www.rogersmith.com
www.rogersmithlife.com
www.facebook.com/rogersmithhotel
www.twitter.com/RSHotel

for reservations:
opentable.com lilysnyc@rogersmith.com or call 212-339-2097

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NEW YEAR’S EVE WORLDWIDE WEBCAST

AdamWallace — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:00:03 +0000

Happy New Year to everyone that is a part of the Roger Smith community!! Thank you all of such an amazing year and we miss you all the best in 2010. All of your support and participation in the community in the past year has been really amazing and taken us to new levels and we cannot thank you enough. Enjoy the Webcast : )

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Watch live streaming video from 2010 at livestream.com

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Roger Smith Holiday Celebration

AdamWallace — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:41:34 +0000

Happy Holiday’s to everyone from the Roger Smith Hotel! Recently the Roger Smith team celebrated the holiday season and all of the years successes with out annual party. It is always fantastic to celebrate with everyone you have works so hard with all year. This celebration always makes us realize what great people we have working for us and how lucky we are to have such a team.

Thank you to all of the Roger Smith employees and all of the Roger Smith community for an amazing year and all the best in 2010

Enjoy this series of photographs from our holiday party.

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Tech Toys The Team @RSHotel Thinks You Need For The Holidays:

BrianSimpson — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:40:32 +0000

The holidays are upon us and the talk of ‘toys’ at the hotel is crazy. A year ago it was about golf clubs, vacations and Flip cams. Now, after a year of being ‘social’ and doing everything we could to create, capture and share content our, our lists have changed. Grown if you will…
Here is a glimpse at what some of us think you need for this holiday season.

Mr. Knowles, CEO and Owner of Ther Roger Smith Hotel

Tech gifts that I think are worth what we pay for them and are useful to us:

1. Check out the Sony mdr-g75
2. The scribe device with paper and ocr recognition
3. How about the Leica LUX-4
4. Zoom H 4

Ek Wongleecharoen, Assistant General Manager

This is what I would like to have in my pocket when I travel:

1. Kindle: Reading Device
2. Panasonic DMC-ZS3K or DMC-ZS3A
3. Dell Latitude XT or Mac Book Air

Adam Wallace, Director of New Media

This is what I would suggest:

1. A Netbook (don’t know a specific kind)
2. Mophie iPhone extra battery pack
3. Kodak Zi8

Brian Simpson, Director of Social Hospitality

What you can’t live without for twenty-10:

1. Wireless Sony headphones
2. Cannon 7D
3. Macbook Pro

John Birdsong, Professional Videographer Panman Productions & All-Around Amazing Guy

Saving the best for last ~ Our resident gadget expert chimes in with:

Refurbished MacBook Pro 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

13.3-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display
4GB memory (add another 4gb yourself and save $800)
250GB Hard Drive
8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
SD card slot
Built-in 7-hour battery
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics
Illuminated keyboard

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/mac
$1,299 – save $200 off of list. fully guaranteed with one year of apple care.

Netflix subscription (if you don’t have one get one!!!)
as little as 7.99 a month includes one unlimited disc and unlimited streaming content

connector for laptop to flatscreen TV
around $20

BEST inexpensive speaker systrem – I have these and they are INCREDIBLE. 200 watts THX certified

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/speakers_audio/home_pc_speakers/devices/231&cl=us,en

$169.00

Air mouse iphone app
$2.99
Control your computer from your iphone. Best wireless touch screen mouse around. Control volume, select netflix and hulu content, surf youtube, and email. It just works.

Happy Holidays From ALL of Us

@RSHotel ~ the roger smith hotel

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